Example sentences of "have been [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner .
2 The process usually involves the stimulation of indigenous subsurface microorganisms to degrade chemicals on-site , although there have been cases in which microorganisms with some specialised metabolic capabilities have been added .
3 At the same time , there have been cases in which ‘ the inference of illegal conspiracy ’ has been drawn from ‘ detailed similarity of behaviour ’ .
4 There have been cases in cashmere relating to an earlier period and we are pursuing those actively with the EC authorities .
5 If we look at the reasons why kin shared homes with each other in the past , three themes emerge which help us further to understand why there have been fluctuations in co-residence .
6 However , there have been problems in using artificial insemination and there is a possibility of reduced fertility in some of the bulls .
7 Not uncommonly there have been problems in replicating both experimental procedures and the results claimed for them .
8 While there have been problems in the interpretation of both Theft Acts the Law Commission in its Report , A Criminal Code for England & Wales , Law Com .
9 All the cases discussed in this section have been ones in which words addressed to one person were held to make another person a trustee either for the first person or for a third party .
10 As a consequence it would appear that ‘ strikes are often the most practical means of renouncing an agreement ’ ( Sellier , 1978 , p. 222 ) , although recently there have been attempts in France to institute more regularised collective relationships .
11 Even in the ‘ feminine ’ arts , however , women have been subject to more subtle pressures : arts , it is believed , are the domain of ‘ feminine ’ men , not women , and there have been attempts in recent years to render the arts more ‘ masculine ’ .
12 Although there have been innovations in social care provision , which are outside the range of this book to review , there is still a tendency to fit people to services rather than vice versa .
13 Peter Chester informed the same Committee that ‘ there certainly have been changes in knowledge .
14 Crimes of violence comprise less than 4 per cent of recorded crime , and while crimes of violence have risen rapidly in numbers in the post-war period there have been changes in the pattern of such offences .
15 ‘ The audit report is signed by the firm and not the individual partner , and therefore we believe that a higher level of independence is not demonstrated where the same name appears on the audit report year on year , whether or not there have been changes in the composition of the audit team . ’
16 New forms of journalism have developed , there have been changes in printing techniques , changes in ownership , and even changes in perceptions of the role of the newspaper within society .
17 Income inequalities among those in employment have been widened by inequitable wages policies , but even more important than wages policies as a means of promoting inequality have been changes in the tax system .
18 Perhaps even more significant for the globalization thesis have been changes in the operational strategy of many of the larger TNCs , involving both production and exchange .
19 There have been changes in employment protection and trade union law , and in relevant social security benefits .
20 Measures which other researchers have described as corresponding to subjective risk have been changes in heart rate or GSR and subjective estimates of the chances of being involved in a near miss ( Watts & Quimby , 1980 ) .
21 If there have been changes in the journal coverage of the Science Citation Index over the period , such that some members of this limited set were not scanned prior to 1970 , say , then such earlier theses would show a lower frequency of citations in general , and the first citations of an author 's thesis could be missed , thus artificially increasing the average latency period .
22 As some departments within Glenpatrick works move onto shift working , there have been changes in the manufacturing activities resulting in the appointment of three shift managers .
23 We fully accept that there have been changes in technique during this time , as described earlier , and as table 1 shows , in all sutured ileoanal anastomosis some form of mucosectomy was performed .
24 There have been changes in the block grant from central government ; rate-capping ; the abolition of the Greater London Council ; the forced introduction of greater tendering ; and changes in local authority finance .
25 In recent years there have been changes in educational emphasis in schools .
26 The trends observed by analysis of Table 3 suggest that there has been a steady growth in research on Scottish geology , but that there have been differences in growth rates between universities over the time interval .
27 The PFA refused to specify who was to blame for the red tape , though here have been differences in the past with nearby RAF Lyneham over airspace .
28 ‘ We have been pioneers in many areas over the years , ’ said Dave Butterworth , managing director .
29 ‘ We have been pioneers in many areas including computational fluid dynamics in furnace design , research into compact heat exchangers , the exploitation of laser techniques in detailed flow measurement , and integrating advanced thermal design software with process simulators , ’ continues Dave Butterworth .
30 But far more numerous have been depictions in light entertainment shows : often with regular ‘ gay ’ characters : the suggestion of a relationship between Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott in ‘ Hugh and I ’ ( early sixties BBC1 ) , and the John Inman character in ‘ Are You Being Served ? ’
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