Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we are satisfied that this stage of the transaction has been completed in good faith , you will receive the rest of the items through the post . ’ |
| 2 | Population decline has been halted in many areas since the mid-1960s to its present level of 346,000 , with employment in manufacturing trebling in this period and total employment growing by one-half ( Shucksmith and Lloyd 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Instead of generalising findings from one patient to others by treating them all as representing instances of a single syndrome , the approach is to treat them all as people in whom a language-processing system which , before their neurological damage , was the same for all of them , has been impaired in some specific way . |
| 4 | On its own it has been explained in various special ways , but considered in the general setting of Mediterranean stratigraphy , some more general explanation seems to be needed . |
| 5 | This property has been recognised in many plant species . |
| 6 | This has been recognised in particular by UK companies , and only a minority of large UK companies do not now use graphical means of data presentation in their corporate annual reports . |
| 7 | This is the first time that a photographer has been recognised in this way . |
| 8 | This is the first time that a photographer has been recognised in this way . |
| 9 | Pain arising from the costal margin has been recognised in medical studies for many years . |
| 10 | A children s adventure playground has been built in recent years , and the field is well used by the village football and cricket teams . |
| 11 | A second possible objection to the rational basis/rightness approach is that it would be somehow inconsistent with the juridical basis on which judicial review has been built in this country . |
| 12 | This produces that variety of note-successions so typical of the total-chromatic usage of serialism ( Example 140 ) : This exercise has been written in such a way as to reveal the considerable difficulty which inevitably occurs when using several serial forms at the same time . |
| 13 | So much has been written in recent years about Ralph Sarich 's Orbital two-stroke engine that our award for technical innovation might appear somewhat tardy . |
| 14 | Much has been written in recent years of the so-called " male menopause " . |
| 15 | A good deal has been written in recent years about Primitive Catholicism , the tendency apparent even within the New Testament period itself to domesticate the Holy Spirit , to make him the perquisite of the Church . |
| 16 | His Laws is still read with pleasure when much that has been written in intervening centuries on the subjects which he treated appears arid , unintelligible , pompous or irrelevant . |
| 17 | Many businesses close ; employment has been lost in rural areas ; when subsidies first went and interest rates were high large numbers of farmers were forced to leave their land . |
| 18 | What has been lost in all this second-guessing is the wanton reckless joy of his finest records . |
| 19 | Some of my best writing has been lost in this way , for I have reason to suppose that the letters were not kept , not even in an old shoe-box . |
| 20 | The matter has been handled in meticulous detail both by Hare and Macfarlane , and only the most salient points can be noted here . |
| 21 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 22 | The Irish Bank Officials ’ Association , over the years , has made a tremendous contribution to the welfare of its members and we know that in recent times IBOA has been engaged in many struggles to protect those terms and conditions . |
| 23 | A YOUNG flying ace of a Spitfire squadron which has been engaged in many battles over Britain , and who married a former Sheerness Carnival Queen , has been killed in action . |
| 24 | IN HIS preview of England 's tour of New Zealand ( WCM Jan ) , Steven Lynch alluded to the first England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30 as being the only time a country has been engaged in two Test series simultaneously . |
| 25 | Indeed it is perhaps a pity that he did not take his own advice , after writing in the New Guide ‘ for the author of the present work might with greater ease , and probably with more advantage to himself , have worked up for the amusement of the eye a number of drawings and paintings during the time he has been engaged in this matter of mere utility ’ . |
| 26 | It has been stated in this document that only two small fires have occurred in high-bay warehouses over 10 metres high of which there are probably more than 5,000 in existence throughout the world . |
| 27 | While the truly indigenous private sector has been assisted in various ways to play a greater role in the national economy , this has often been at the expense of immigrant communities , who have rights of citizenship based on birth . |
| 28 | Until now SuperCalc has lacked a ‘ best fit ’ option for setting column width and this has been rectified in this release . |
| 29 | Using the equation above , the probability that a difference of this order has been missed in this series of experiments is less than 1% for both acid and pepsin . |
| 30 | Despite the original relationship of the rule to nuisance , however , the former has been developed in such a way that it provides a remedy which is basically quite different from nuisance . |