Example sentences of "which have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But they can not be too remote if a school — primary or secondary — is working to a curriculum blueprint which has been sought by successive governments and if we now accept that schools have only a limited choice in any broader expectations which society imposes upon them .
2 This is an aspect which has been emphasized by van Dijk ( 1984 , 1986a ; see also Schiffrin , 1985 ) .
3 Indeed , he confessed that he was deeply troubled by having to pass sentence at ill : ‘ Itis with feelings of great pain that I pass sentence upon you , the defendants , and I can make great allowance for the youthful spirit which has been exhibited by you . ’
4 And the rabbit catcher 's great grandson carries on the village tradition , which has been enhanced with the arrival of Capt Tim Forster and his Grand National successes .
5 Apart from the language barrier , which has been eased by the general acceptance of English everywhere except in France , British and Continental military staffs have practically no shared operational experience or traditions .
6 which has been coated with an ultra-violet light resistant lacquer or ‘ resist ’ .
7 That is a sharp decline from the 73.5p at which they were suspended and reflects the financial havoc which has been wrought on the company 's accounts as a consequence of the problems at its ISC Technologies subsidiary .
8 The analytical technique , which has been devised by A. Burmester of the Technical University of Berlin , may also provide a way of identifying repairs and additions to lacquered objects .
9 GEC Ferranti is already employed on the £300 million development contract to create the radar for the EFA , which has been devised by Britain , Italy , Spain and Germany .
10 The deal involves the development of a laser warning system for the European Fighter Aircraft , Eurofighter 2000 , which has been devised by Britain , Italy , Spain and Germany .
11 There is no doubt that NIA should be an attractive prospect , given the amount of public money which has been ploughed into the expansion of Aldergrove over the past 30 years .
12 This project will continue earlier work on recruitment and selection to vacancies in retail sales and clerical occupations , in two locations in the North-East of England , which has been funded by the Equal Opportunities Commission .
13 Much of the spur for the tight rein which has been kept on emotion has come from the players themselves after their 10-9 victory over England at Cardiff a fortnight ago .
14 One of the classic cases in Britain is Lady Park Wood , an ancient and very mixed coppice in the Wye valley , which has been kept as an unmanaged reserve for nearly half a century .
15 Those breeds developed for guarding purposes , such as the Rottweiler , are naturally bold , and less amenable to accepting instructions from people than companion dogs such as the Tibetan Terrier which has been kept for centuries in the domestic environment .
16 It is a love which has been kept in ignorance : have n't women been kept uninformed for long enough ?
17 It is the ability of the proposed applicants to manage the trusts which has been borne in mind among the criteria that I have had to consider .
18 Like the attractive Victorian beach scene , for example , painted by Scottish artist Robert Gemmell-Hutchinson , which has been hung above the mantelpiece in the living room .
19 So clear is this conclusion to my mind that , notwithstanding anything which has been said in other cases , I would be very slow to concede that the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) is in its context ambiguous .
20 If you must play background music , keep the volume very low — your partner 's senses will be especially acute — and stick to ‘ New Age ’ music which has been composed for meditation and deep relaxation .
21 The legal recognition of corporate character may be obtained either by a charter from the Crown , as in the case of most of our older corporations , like the Hudson 's Bay Company , some universities and their colleges , as well as of some more recent ones ; or directly by means of an incorporating Act of parliament , as in the case of certain public utilities ; or indirectly through an Act of Parliament like the Companies Act 1948 ( which has been amended by several later Acts of the same name , and consolidated by the Companies Act 1985 ) , which offers corporate character to any number of persons ( usually not less than seven ) associated for a lawful object , who are willing to comply with the statutory requirements as to registration and otherwise .
22 A certified cheque is an ordinary cheque which has been certified in writing by a bank as being good .
23 If a body approved by the Secretary of State have provided or propose to provide a seamen 's canteen the need for which has been certified by him after consultation with the Merchant Navy Welfare Board , the licensing board within whose jurisdiction the said canteen is or will be situated may grant a licence under this Part of this Act authorising the person who is the manager of the canteen to sell alcoholic liquor in the canteen .
24 1982 ) is a revised version of a well-established North American test which has been restandardised on a sample of British children .
25 The concurrent and predictive validity of the BPVT is based mainly on the extensive research which has been conducted with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test ( PPVT ) , and particularly the high correlations obtained when scores of the PPVT have been compared with scores from standardised intelligence tests .
26 The research which has been conducted on their parenting and its outcomes for their children has often been flawed and equivocal .
27 A second , less publicised but in many ways more interesting and far-reaching , experiment in new forms of work organisation is that which has been conducted in the other Swedish car company , SAAB , at Trollhatten .
28 It is not yet clear how many criteria teachers and others can be expected to manage , or find useful , but the limited amount of research and observation which has been conducted in this area suggests that teachers do not always work at a high level of detailed information .
29 Almost every excavation which has been conducted in the area bounded by the River Alne on the east and north-east , the marsh on the north and north-west , Ryknild Street on the west and the boundary ditch on the south has produced evidence , however slight , for structures of one sort or another , and it is clear that the whole town was several times the size of the walled area .
30 The Created God is the mental image of a storehouse of ‘ goodness ’ which has been extracted from two sources , evolution and civilisation .
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