Example sentences of "[verb] have been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A PLAN to draw up registers of land which may be polluted has been abandoned by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , writes Auslan Cramb . |
| 2 | An estimate of how well the non-crystallographic fivefold symmetry is conserved has been made by applying an exact fivefold rotation for a given atom and determining the r.m.s.d. from the observed positions . |
| 3 | The desire to diversify has been prompted by a need to boost dwindling profit margins in an increasingly competitive traditional banking sector . |
| 4 | 1982 No. 1676 ) ) regulating the practice on appeal to the Judicial Committee , an appeal from the Court of Appeal of New Zealand can be entertained only if leave to appeal has been granted by that court or if special leave has been granted by Her Majesty in Council . |
| 5 | The courtyard thus formed has been adopted by the Manx government who intent to develop it as a garden area . |
| 6 | A very small proportion , my Lord Mayor , of of what affects the City 's financial position , is your own car , Sir , which I am delighted to see has been plugged into the controlling group 's revenue expenditure this year . |
| 7 | Historically change has been limited in extent since traditional lore and experience play a greater part in extensive systems . |
| 8 | Abolition of the right to silence has been rejected by Parliament on a number of occasions , most recently when the Police and Criminal Evidence Act was enacted . |
| 9 | Just how a school 's budget is derived and totalled has been dealt with in the opening chapter , but perhaps headteachers should take time to disabuse certain governors of misconceptions they may have , usually culled from newspaper headlines . |
| 10 | None of the museums consulted has been approached as a possible venue for any of the ‘ WONDERS ’ shows . |
| 11 | This too uses analysis and synthesis : analysis if the discovery to be checked has been made by synthesis , synthesis if it was made by analysis . |
| 12 | The out of court settlement made two days before the trial was to be heard has been hailed as a legal milestone by the Spinal Injuries Association . |
| 13 | A BOAT skipper who took £100,000 in bookings for a ferry service which did not exist has been jailed for 15 months . |
| 14 | What happens when a majority voting equilibrium does not exist has been explored in a number of studies . |
| 15 | In this case , Madeline Usher has been buried in the family vault below the house , supposedly dead . |
| 16 | none of the systems to be reported has been tested in a way which would allow evaluation of their linguistic effectiveness . |
| 17 | Over the past few months , the ground has has been prepared with meetings between senior Labour and Whitehall figures . |
| 18 | Jim Harris , new president and CEO of the Santa Cruz Operation , was one of the very earliest in the door at Intel Corp , where he made his fortune : since 1988 , aside from his position on SCO 's board , he has has been occupied as a farmer in Minnesota . |
| 19 | The statement on value added has been reported in some cases . |
| 20 | The deterioration to be expected has been analysed by the author , and results for the 80/20 case are given here . |
| 21 | Some of what they found has been reclaimed by its owners but there 's plenty left . |
| 22 | A Brigade statement said : ‘ The decision to disband has been taken by the leadership and will prevent any members reforming under any other name . ’ |
| 23 | In an experimental study of a case management service for homeless mentally ill people only two out of 94 people referred in a year reported having been admitted to hospital for a year or longer . |
| 24 | And if two actresses can survive having been cast in the same part and still go on to be friends , they can survive anything . |
| 25 | The legislation for the new agency was expected to have been introduced into Parliament at the earliest possible opportunity by Secretary of State for the Environment , Michael Heseltine , who is expected to set a firm date for publication of the consultation paper on the new environment agency sometime in October . |
| 26 | She used to repeat the expression on attend pas mieux , through tight lips , in relation to any misdemeanour reported to have been committed by a Jew . |
| 27 | The first woman reported to have been burned at stake for having sex with the devil was a citizen of Toulouse , who met her fate in 1275 after apparently giving birth to a child with the head of a wolf and a tail like a snake . |
| 28 | The first of these was the Greek tanker Filikon L , reported to have been attacked by an Iraqi aircraft . |
| 29 | In June Austrian police had seized weapons-grade uranium reported to have been smuggled from the former Soviet Union [ see p. 38987 ] . |
| 30 | A civilization that never invented the wheel was automatically precluded from inventing the mechanical clock , but in fact neither the sundial nor the water-clock appear to have been developed by the Maya for measuring the passage of time . |