Example sentences of "areas have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their homes by the conflict , the economy of these areas has been devastated and government forces are laying siege to many parts of the north , often involving inaccurate and indiscriminate bombardments of civilian population centres . |
| 2 | The new computerised processes have meant that the lead time in certain product areas has been shortened dramatically from eight weeks to 42 h . |
| 3 | By far the greatest part of maintenance research developed by institutions of state for marginal areas has been soil conservation techniques ( outlined in Ch. 5 ) , which , as this book shows , have had to be imposed by colonial powers to be ‘ induced ’ at all . |
| 4 | The development of telephone advice for rural areas has been successful both in East Anglia and in Northumberland . |
| 5 | In the USA on the other hand , a good deal of useful research in these areas has been undertaken . |
| 6 | Considerable exploration effort in those areas has been felt by the industry to be worthwhile , and in the United States has already met with some commercial success . |
| 7 | Its area is much smaller than it was , but the landscaping of the reclaimed areas has been so successful that they merge into the surrounding countryside and become ‘ invisible ’ . |
| 8 | The quality of the publicity material in the research areas has been high , but has needed to be , for the public have initially been deeply sceptical about some of the proposals . |
| 9 | The application of these ideas to established urban areas has been obstructed both by public expenditure restrictions and by community opposition to new road construction . |
| 10 | Because the application of these new designs in new residential areas has been quiet and uncontroversial , the panoply of safety measures that could be applied as on the Continent has not been publicly discussed . |
| 11 | The insights of the church growth movement in showing the impact of culture in these areas has been a major contribution to the Church 's understanding of its missionary task in recent decades . |
| 12 | So far as I am aware , we have no evidence , for example , to show whether male unemployment which in some areas has been higher than the rate for females , has enabled tending tasks of old relatives to be taken on by men who remain at home . |
| 13 | Financial support to help restore damaged upland areas has been agreed in principle by the Camping and Outdoor Leisure Association ( COLA ) , the umbrella body representing outdoor gear manufacturers and retailers . |
| 14 | Despite restrictions of finance and lack of initial endorsement often from higher echelons of management , the amount of innovative work in under-fives and special needs areas has been significant . |
| 15 | from the beginning , the president 's constitutional position in these areas has been strong . |
| 16 | The employment and training provision available in West Belfast and other areas has been outlined by other speakers . |
| 17 | The type of employment offered by manufacturing industry in rural areas has been questioned for a number of reasons . |
| 18 | The phenomenon of second homes in rural areas has been quite widely researched , although there is debate as to their definition ( Dower 1977 ; Davies and O'Farrell 1981 ) and little agreement as to whether they constitute a ‘ curse or a blessing ’ ( Coppock 1977 ) . |
| 19 | One solution to the problems caused by the withdrawal of rail transport in rural areas has been to replace these services with buses . |
| 20 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 21 | Although the take up in some areas has been poorer than expected in the programme , which is now into its second year , research into changes in working practices and attitudes has been assessed . |
| 22 | It is most unlikely that either of these areas has been used for arable in the last 1500 years , and this is confirmed to some extent by field names recorded on the earliest maps ( of the early nineteenth century ) and in medieval documents . |
| 23 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown , the normal hierarchy associated with production and support areas has been swept away , and replaced with teams and team leaders . |
| 24 | Some of the most intractable problems in Scottish geology relate to the structural and metamorphic history of the Moine Series rocks of the North West and Grampian Highlands , the ages of which have been matters of controversy and speculation since the early nineteenth century because of their structural complexity , and the lack of incontrovertible and unequivocal evidence of their absolute age , and it is noteworthy that research in these areas has been led by Geological Survey scientists , sometimes with university collaboration , and sometimes without . |
| 25 | In the despatch area new racking is about to be erected , meeting the demand for more warehouse space and nearby the returns areas has been shifted with two inspection floors being placed adjacent to one another in a new location . |
| 26 | The shift from rural to urban areas has been marked in England , the proportion of the population living in nonurban areas declining from a little over 35% in 1951 to not much more than 20% 20 years later . |
| 27 | Our ability to supply gas in outlying areas has been considerably improved in joint |
| 28 | That is a large number of people in those two areas to have been entered on the computer . |
| 29 | The support for the status quo in these two areas had been ‘ soft ’ , with the public acquiescing because there appeared to be no politically workable alternative . |
| 30 | At officer level , the Cambridge Board through Hickson and Pateman not unreasonably argued that its initiatives in rural areas had been successful ; not least because of the financial support received from LEAs who were prepared to grant-aid provision of liberal adult education by the Board more generously than that provided through the District . |