Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently a string of no less than thirty cylinder seals made of lapis lazuli has been recovered from a Mycenaean house at Thebes . |
| 2 | Although their significance as regional political institutions has been undermined — in the case of water authorities by proposals for privatization and in the case of health authorities by a series of financial and managerial initiatives which have encouraged a shift towards private sector ( market-type ) decision-making ( Pollitt , Harrison , Hunter and Marnoch , 1988 ) — there has been a growth in regional state institutions in other policy areas . |
| 3 | None of these vacancies has been filled . |
| 4 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |
| 5 | Assessment has traditionally been regarded as the responsibility of psychiatrists , but in recent years the role of non-medically qualified personnel has been examined . |
| 6 | The company 's belief in growth from within ensures that , once the right calibre of personnel has been recruited , the opportunities for personal development within the company are enormous . |
| 7 | A BRITON suspected of trying to sell Saddam Hussein enough plutonium for 15 nuclear bombs has been arrested in Germany . |
| 8 | The role of local authorities has been expanded and the ‘ delegate ’ concept of representation adopted in communes and collectives . |
| 9 | On the community charge , the funding for local authorities has been increased by 6.1 per cent . |
| 10 | The question whether the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher applies in all its strictness to local authorities has been considered but not decided . |
| 11 | The power of local education authorities has been reduced whilst additional power has been given to central government and the revised and highly decentralised governing bodies of schools and colleges . |
| 12 | Through schemes , such as the Urban Programme and various training programmes , access to funds for local authorities has been shifted to areas in which they engage in some sort of partnership with the departments of central government . |
| 13 | Health ‘ disaster ’ : A plan by the Northern Regional Health Authority to merge Hartlepool and North Tees Health Authorities has been attacked as ‘ a potential disaster ’ by Hartlepool prospective Labour candidate Peter Mandelson . |
| 14 | A range of possible reasons has been put forward , stressing that it is important to get the right degree of capital intensity for the business and that many businesses may simply be misled by current profitability and push investment too far . |
| 15 | By far the most extensive research into the relationship between society and mass consumption objects has been conducted in the world of commerce itself , and its offshoots in marketing and advertising , which are strongly linked to the discipline of economics . |
| 16 | One of the most important finds of late Roman gold and silver coins and objects has been located by a local man , retired gardener Eric Lawes , with a metal detector in a field in Suffolk . |
| 17 | The distinction between federal and unitary states has been called ‘ largely spurious ’ . |
| 18 | One of the most significant results of the repression in the Baltic states has been to recreate an alliance between Russian radical politicians and Baltic nationalists . |
| 19 | Today ( i.e. from the end of the nineteenth century to today ) the competitive market base of nation states has been superseded by the concentration of capitalist markets and the internationalisation of large monopoly and oligopoly capitalists firms . |
| 20 | The unreliability of reported mergers has been argued for most strongly by Labov and his colleagues ( Labov , Yaeger and Steiner , 1972 ; Labov , 1975 etc. ) , and for inner-city Belfast it can be argued that meat is not really merged with mate , despite the fact that people believe that it is a merger . |
| 21 | Council funding of an HCRC cultural centre and other projects has been cut off , and vacant staff posts frozen . |
| 22 | A strong base of externally funded research projects has been created , and despite increased competition at the level of ‘ new starts ’ continues to increase . |
| 23 | A broad spectrum of projects has been supported , including repair yards for fishing boats , bulb growing , hotels , craft industries and an aluminium smelter . |
| 24 | An infrastructure has been established for campaigning in the years to come : a Leader and some 30 distinguished Patrons have agreed to support the Campaign ; an initial portfolio of investment projects has been drawn up ; and the Alumni database , with an active list of some 25% of the graduate body , is now operational . |
| 25 | Under their aegis a range of economically-oriented projects has been effected , including training schemes , science parks , support for small businesses , industrial-improvement projects , and so on . |
| 26 | The measures , including the abolition of petroleum revenue tax , on new oil and gas projects has been welcomed by British Petroleum which said that the changes should encourage investment in large fields , such as its recent find west of Shetland . |
| 27 | A method of dealing with compound lexical forms has been developed which combines with the lexicon and allows the recognition of idiomatic phrases within the input . |
| 28 | Oxygen has been omitted because nearly all the oxygen in a planet resides in non-volatile oxides and silicates and it is extremely difficult to estimate how much of this oxygen has been liberated into more volatile forms and conversely how much oxygen originally in volatile forms has been lost by combination with various oxides and silicates . |
| 29 | The peg and string method of devising near biomorphic forms has been used by Naum Gabo and Armin Hofmann . |
| 30 | British Ropes has been examining the 80-year-old bridge and in a report to Cleveland County Council says 18 large bolts need to be replaced . |