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

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1 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 .
2 The five-year project has resulted in a facelift for the line which has been recognised with several national awards .
3 The rape victim was able to give such a good description , that an artist 's impression has been recognised by several people .
4 He has been bailed on several sureties and appears in court tomorrow . ’
5 Further consideration is recommended on the subject of removing tax disadvantages that arise on disincorporation , a problem that has been highlighted on several previous occasions .
6 However their interpretation has been criticized on several counts which show that ‘ the family-firm analogy is misleading and generally overworked ; its character is usually symbolic or ideological rather than descriptive ’ ( Fruin 1980 p.432 ) .
7 It is a stance which has been nurtured by several things , family bereavement and an intelligent , contemplative nature amongst them , but was perhaps most impelled by the experience of coaching in Bangladesh in the winter of 1989–90 .
8 This flexible approach to arranging help for childcare has been adopted by several companies .
9 Alluvial gold has been recorded in several streams in an area of Dalradian metasediments to the south of Loch Tay and from small base metal workings in the vicinity ( Heddle , 1901 ) .
10 That the court can take such an initiative is well settled and indeed it has been done on several occasions in the past .
11 To date , some work has been done in several areas including planning and learning and induction .
12 This system has been implemented on several super-computers , since it provides scope for instruction overlapping ( described in 8.2 ) .
13 This process is known as EUTROPHICATION and has been observed in several places in the UK in the past .
14 This pattern has been documented in several research accounts of the primary classroom ( e.g. Boydell 1978 , Southgate , Arnold and Johnson , 1981 ) .
15 Gamma-interferon may play a similar role in enteropathies with an immunological basis such as coeliac disease , and this has been supported by several recent findings .
16 It is not always easy to separate hardware and software and this fact has been demonstrated on several occasions in the courts .
17 This principle is a quite general one that has been applied to several ‘ dimensions ’ of personality .
18 One favoured process is known as back-arc spreading and this has been applied to several such basins .
19 Road pricing , which involves charging drivers directly for their use of the road network , has been advocated for several years as a means of reducing congestion and environmental impact .
20 We now shall take up an issue that has been touched on several times before : power transformation of the scale of a variable in order to make its analysis easier .
21 The latter name has been given to several somewhat different structures .
22 The subject of intergroup competition has been studied by several researchers , and in general the following conclusions have been reached :
23 The base-modification pattern has been studied in several synthetic variants of yeast tRNA Asp injected into Xenopus laevis oocytes .
24 And has been said by several people who are here .
25 Inadequacy of services for young physically disabled adults has been emphasised in several reports .
26 The significance of the new appointments and structures has been emphasised by several commentators , especially those with a general management perspective .
27 He was accused of passing on ‘ state secrets ’ to the Agence France Presse reporter Lawrence Macdonald , whose account of the student protests has been referred to several occasions .
28 The increasing control of TDC by the Texas courts has been referred to several times already .
29 WACC 's thinking on this has been expressed in several official statements , including the Statement on Communication and Development of 1985 .
30 Marketing has been defined in several ways — as an exchange activity , as a management activity , and as an attitude of mind .
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