Example sentences of "[noun] have be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A SICILIAN accused of forming a Mafia cell in the Alpine city of Grenoble has been expelled to Italy .
2 More recently a string of no less than thirty cylinder seals made of lapis lazuli has been recovered from a Mycenaean house at Thebes .
3 The neutralisation technique has been validated by double blind randomised trials , including food trials showing its effectiveness in preventing symptoms.Studies that failed to show effects evaluated the provocation of symptoms by food extracts ( not part of the standard technique ) ; that cited by Kay was also faulty in many respects and gave a wrong definition of the end point .
4 This technique has been applied to the study of platelet function in diabetic subjects ( Jones et al , 1985 ) .
5 A simple hydraulic fracturing technique has been applied to ten boreholes in the Masvingo area of Zimbabwe , in which there many low-yielding tube-wells .
6 The bromodeoxyuridine immunohistochemical technique has overcome many of the problems associated with the tritiated thymidine technique and the accuracy of this technique has been verified by Lacy et al .
7 The technique has been described in detail previously .
8 Although this waveform detection technique has been discussed with particular reference to a three.phase variable.reluctance motor , it should be apparent that the method can be applied to any motor in which the motional voltage influences the current waveform .
9 Dictionary definitions constitute a valuable source of semantic knowledge , and the definitional overlap technique has been shown to be a suitable method for applying such knowledge .
10 Recently , another ultrafast MRI technique has been introduced under the name of ‘ snapshot ’ or turboFLASH .
11 This technique has been copied by insects , including ladybirds and certain moths and butterflies .
12 That technique has been considered by many interested in waste management , because it achieves considerably higher volumes of reduction than incineration , and seems to offer good prospects for even better pollution control standards .
13 This technique has been used for uranium , copper , fluorine and other relatively soluble elements .
14 This technique has been used by salespeople for many years and consequently should be used with care , especially with professional buyers who are likely to have experienced its use many times and know exactly what the salesperson is doing .
15 Since 1988 the Doppler technique has been used in diagnosing vascular malformations .
16 Although this formulation has been referred to in subsequent cases it has not been adopted as laying down an all embracing test .
17 This cumbersome formulation has been dropped in the Vienna Sales Convention , which substitutes as the sole criterion of internationality the fact that the parties carry on business in different States , a formulation adopted in the U N Convention of Agency in the Sale of Goods and the Unidroit Conventions on International Factoring and International Financial Leasing .
18 In this period of her life the fifty-year-old duchess has been transformed from a tough old battleaxe into " the presiding genius in a society of knights and troubadours " .
19 A Peugeot 21-gear mountain bike has been stolen from Ashlands Road , Northallerton .
20 However , the importance of such protection has been recognized by U.K. legislators and the judiciary and , as a result , computers and computer software are reasonably well protected from counterfeiting and piracy .
21 Part of the area has been designated as a site of special scientific interest under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act and special protection has been sought under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance .
22 No special protection has been given to the broadcasting of the proceedings of the House , although it seems likely the defence of qualified privilege to actions of defamation will be available .
23 Over the past two hundred years a degree of protection has been accorded to the tenant against the distraining landlord .
24 Because income support was introduced at a time when there would otherwise have been an increase in supplementary benefits , and because transitional protection has been provided for some groups of claimants who have been transferred to income support , the Government claims that relatively few people suffered an actual cut in benefit in April 1988 .
25 At the extreme right of the picture the top of the Citicorp Building has been spun through 180 degrees .
26 The engine generator has been housed at the rear of the Matthew Kirtley Museum and this part of the building has been turned into something similar to a vintage powerhouse .
27 The main interest of this church is in its interior mosaics because much of the building has been altered in later times .
28 Since the reconstruction of the site commenced , the main building has been converted into workshops housing leather workers , a photographer , iron worker , and a number of other skilled artists and craftsmen .
29 Now , one floor of the building has been converted into a 40-place day centre and another into a ten-bed assessment and rehabilitation unit .
30 Public sector housing , housing associations , building has been cut by two thirds .
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