Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 2 | In recent years dismissals have been justified much more in terms of the need to rationalize the labour force in the face of external economic problems which are compounded by Japan 's ageing population . |
| 3 | The Republic of Colombia won its independence from Spain in 1819 although its borders have been redrawn several times since . |
| 4 | Executive voices have been raised several octaves over the issue ( UX No 433 ) , and there does not appear to be any clear agreement yet on how COSE firms would level this playing field . |
| 5 | Books have been called many things in their time , but not ‘ lean and muscular ’ . |
| 6 | Since then about ten new sites have been scheduled each week , and this could be seen as a deliberate blocking measure as it only takes place where the owner wants to do something with the site . |
| 7 | No significant onshore placers are currently known but some offshore areas have been investigated such as the Mawddach estuary , near Dolgellau in North Wales , which was considered a prospect by RioFinex during the late 1960s . |
| 8 | Rats have been sighted several times in the Hundens Lane area and Darlington Council 's environmental health department say all rubbish should be kept securely bundled and no scraps of food should be left . |
| 9 | What we 're , in effect what we 're saying is that for a a number of years the Communist Party has provided , has made that moral economy work i in a s and made it work very well because rents have been reduced more than the peasants would expect erm er interest rate is extremely low . |
| 10 | MORE than 600 illegal nets have been confiscated this year from poachers who are stealing thousands of pounds worth of salmon from the River Foyle . |
| 11 | ‘ Hundreds of companies have been duped this way , ’ said a detective with the Northumbria Fraud Squad , which is investigating the Brandmakers ' case . |
| 12 | Successive new syntheses have been published both of the history of the party and of the revolution , and with each edition they have tended to become more detailed , more finely nuanced , more subtle . |
| 13 | Provisions relating to ancient monuments have been amended several times , the latest being 1983 when the National Heritage Act was passed . |
| 14 | Job prospects for aspiring pilots have been dealt another blow this autumn . |
| 15 | In the end only one or two small sub-programmes have been investigated each year . |
| 16 | At present no other organisations have been given this status . |
| 17 | She 's had more people in there , the dogs have been left more hours that |
| 18 | Deficits in visual function following subcortical visual system lesions have been reported many times but it is difficult to interpret them . |
| 19 | British banks have been granted some £2,250 million in tax relief on bad loans to developing countries , according to official figures . |
| 20 | Fears have been expressed that timber cladding could suffer from Britain 's cold and damp climate , but the location on the south bank of the Thames estuary at Thamesmead should test the method to extreme : in winter the fog rolls in directly from Denmark . |
| 21 | At lower levels , too , cost-centre managers have been given more flexibility with personnel management providing a greater link between performance and promotion ( Thorpe |
| 22 | No average for the country is available for comparison , but compared with other areas where similar surveys have been made this figure is regarded as a high one . |
| 23 | Structural traps for Barren Measures ' sandstone reservoirs are provided by Mesozoic block-faulting and other more subtle plays have been identified such as ‘ reef ’ developments in the Lower Carboniferous and onlap/'pinch-out' of sands within the Millstone Grit . |
| 24 | An early book on techniques in geomorphology ( King , 1966 ) covered the range then available , specific manuals have been produced such as the US Geological Survey Techniques of Water Resources Investigations and the Technical Bulletins of the British Geomorphological Research Group , and an edited manual of geomorphological techniques ( Goudie , 1981a ) embraces the earlier developments . |
| 25 | Anhydrite in minor quantities has been reported at different Devonian horizons in two wells in France and Belgium , and in more substantial thickness in the Dinantian in Belgium ( Massa and Oudin 1980 ) ; intriguing speculations have been made that halite might be present deeper in the Namur and Dinant basins . |
| 26 | Twenty-one red kite chicks have been raised this year , compared to just 10 last year . |
| 27 | Several studies have been produced that point to correspondences between French fabliaux and intellectual ( scholarly ) currents of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries . |
| 28 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |
| 29 | In the Northern General hospital NHS trust , six new consultants have been appointed this year and 95 per cent . |
| 30 | Erm , the , all the arguments for and against organic dips have been considered this last nine months by the Veterinary Products Committee , and they 've come out with a report I think , that satisfies no one , because it does n't go either , either way in that respect at all , it 's called for more research and , and erm , development in that , in that sense . |