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

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1 A great deal has been written of the Pilgrims Road and its travellers and its river crossings and I 'm of the opinion that more Pilgrims to Canterbury follow this route now than followed it in Mediaeval times ( howls of protest ) .
2 Much has been written of the difficult trading condition as interest rates rise and demand slows , but a substantial market place continues to exist .
3 Much has been written of Dick Corden this season , most of it unkind and some of it here .
4 A much fuller theory has been developed of how motions of this type can be generated through the action of the mean shear on initially isotropic fluctuations , but the details are not apparent without the mathematical analysis .
5 To save time when judgment is given , the practice has been adopted of stating the disposition of the case in open court , but of providing printed copies of the full judgments to the parties ' lawyers and to the representatives of the press in court .
6 If not , the ratification of Maastricht should not be taken as a signal that the Europe of the past few decades has been assured of perpetuity , but rather that a redefinition of its ambitions is overdue .
7 According to David Hume , the subject of the next chapter , Berkeley 's account of abstract ideas was ‘ one of the greatest and most valuable discoveries that has been made of late years in the republic of letters ’ .
8 Much has been made of the fact that two fifteenth-century kings , James I and James III , came spectacularly to grief .
9 Understandably , much has been made of Henry VIII 's offer of a pension of £1000 to the pro-English and Protestant earl of Glencairn in 1544 and of the money to be sent from France for Mary to distribute to Arran , Beaton and others in 1545 .
10 Little fuss has been made of the director 's original notion of casting Michael Jackson as Peter , but Spielberg has clearly missed the boat in refusing to commission Robert Smith , front man and only constant factor of The Cure , to compose the score .
11 In this paper particular mention has been made of the application of Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy to depression .
12 Information gathering should not take place until a careful assessment has been made of the management tasks and decisions which require information .
13 Mention has been made of M. Spencer Ell the auditor , who gave generously of his services and bequeathed the Club a substantial legacy .
14 Much has been made of the beneficence of French rule in Lebanon ; the economy was revitalised , Beirut harbour enlarged , and a network of major roads built to link the country 's principal cities .
15 Much has been made of the fact that San Francisco emerged relatively unscathed from Loma Prieta .
16 Considerable use has been made of actuality , especially in BBC regional weekly , review programmes , and there has been a reasonable amount of committee coverage .
17 Some use has been made of a control suggested by Kurtz ( 1955 ) , in which the subjects received pre-training on a same — different task .
18 I am sure you are as appalled as I am at the use that has been made of the private letter of a schoolboy to his parents , but it is certainly a lesson for you in the ways of the world . ’
19 Much has been made of the possibilities of converting barns for light industrial use .
20 What use has been made of the formerly marshy area between these two parts of the city ?
21 In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially .
22 Similar use has been made of the late Georgian mansion , Malone House , and has proved very successful .
23 Use has been made of CAI for training at the Library of Congress in the use of the SCORPIO ( Subject Content Oriented Retriever for Processing Information Online ) and MUMS ( the Multiple-Use MARC System ) .
24 Use has been made of PLATO software .
25 At the Sizewell inquiry , and in parliament and ministerial statements , much play has been made of the existence of international safeguards and treaties designed to prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons and to block civil facilities being used for military purposes .
26 Although much has been made of the fact that Australian fast bowler Craig McDermott did n't become the first overseas player to represent the county , Indian batsman Sachin Tedulkar confirms a long term policy : overseas players are now welcome in Yorkshire cricket .
27 For example , no mention has been made of which variable to base branching on , or which active node to develop next .
28 Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life .
29 Still less has been made of a functionally similar underclass in the United States .
30 Now though , you have the flexibility of being able to try different shot orders , and to repeat the edits until you are satisfied that the best use has been made of the material available .
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