Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] in [det] " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 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 .
3 This property has been recognised in many plant species .
4 This is the first time that a photographer has been recognised in this way .
5 This is the first time that a photographer has been recognised in this way .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 What has been lost in all this second-guessing is the wanton reckless joy of his finest records .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 ’ .
13 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 .
14 Until now SuperCalc has lacked a ‘ best fit ’ option for setting column width and this has been rectified in this release .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The debate which deals with these matters will be referred to and the conceptual apparatus which has been developed in that debate will be used where appropriate .
18 Will the success that has been developed in these areas be supported or impeded by the 1988 Education Reform Act ?
19 This geometric design is Inca , from Croydex 's new Premiere range of textile shower curtains , forming a dramatic focal point around which a warm ethnic look has been developed in this bathroom .
20 It is whether we are prepared to destroy the tripartite system that has been developed in this country since the passing of the Municipal Corporations Act of eighteen thirty five and the Local Government Act of eighteen eighty eight , for make no mistake about it Clause two of this Bill effectively destroys the careful balance that has been developed over more than a century between chief officers , local police authorities and the Home Secretary .
21 Here your role is to ensure that any plan has been developed in enough detail to satisfy you as manager that it is workable .
22 Clerical Medical 's record of consistent performance has been highlighted in many independent surveys and has attracted much favourable comment .
23 The need for training has been highlighted in many major reports .
24 The expenditure of public money on this , yet another television service , has been criticized in some quarters , but the Governor told me his decision was based on the fact , as he saw it , of NTV 's pro-Federal bias .
25 But since Gide has been criticized in this respect it is something which needs to be addressed .
26 Once a Brie has been cut in that state , it will seldom ripen properly .
27 The workforce has been cut in half to 24,000 and still there is not enough work to go round : some production lines work only a 3-4-day week .
28 The pension offered to widows has been cut in half .
29 The distributed aspect contrasts sharply with the lumped nature of circuit representation of discrete components that has been adopted in all networks considered so far .
30 An even more limited approach has been adopted in some other cases .
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