Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] several [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she reached there she found that Ann and Ruth had been joined by several other girls , including Sarah , and were just about to start their game . |
| 2 | Over the years the original anti-Common Marketeers have been joined by several other groups . |
| 3 | ‘ Sheffield ’ type parking stands have been placed at several public cycle parking places in central Edinburgh marked overleaf by . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He has been confused with his younger brother , Jonathan , also born in Dearham and baptized 11 September 1744 , who followed the same profession , and their separate publications have been listed in several prominent works under John 's name . |
| 8 | The life of a Home Secretary has been depicted by several former holders of the office as being unduly susceptible to interruption by sudden and totally unexpected incidents which require all his attention : |
| 9 | The introduction of some pretty slick software has been paralleled by several new hardware devices ; film recorders , LCD display tablets and colour printers being the most important , at prices significantly less than before . |
| 10 | Idaho had been selected by anti-abortionists after similar bills had been defeated in several other state legislatures . |
| 11 | One favoured process is known as back-arc spreading and this has been applied to several such basins . |
| 12 | The antipathy to any large-scale popular participation in running public affairs , which shows itself constantly in many more forms than those which I have mentioned here by way of illustration , has been incorporated in several different ways into political science . |
| 13 | After housing , the service in which privatisation has made the most progress is the NHS , inroads have been made on several interrelated fronts . |
| 14 | Neither viewpoint is absolute , but some reference should have been made to several recent studies of evolutionary rates in the Pleistocene mammals of Europe . |
| 15 | Judging by the visitors ' book , it has already been seen by several thousand members of the public and potential clients — including visitors from most European Countries and from as far away as Brazil , Alaska and South Korea . |
| 16 | This was partly as a safety measure , but also as a result of a campaign by local councillors , who have been told about several near misses at Ruswarp . |
| 17 | Prenatal diagnosis , however , has been performed on the fetus of the aunt of one boy , and genetic counselling has been requested by several other members of the extended families . |
| 18 | They hide in situations of complexity , in which effects may have been produced by several different causes acting together . |
| 19 | The latter is composed of a penis which is usually unpaired ( but may be double , as in the Ephemeroptera and some Dermaptera ) and a pair of more lateral structures which are perhaps best referred to as parameres , though this term has been used in several different senses . |
| 20 | This has been shown in several scientific experiments which invariably indicate that overweight people eat more quickly than slim people . |
| 21 | Its findings have already been challenged by several regional councils and by Professor Arthur Midwinter , of the Department of Politics at Strathclyde University . |
| 22 | According to the Link 's busy manager Ken Lee , the Woodland Road offices have been contacted by several other business ventures around the which are interested in emulating Darlington 's success . |
| 23 | The five-year project has resulted in a facelift for the line which has been recognised with several national awards . |
| 24 | It thus cut across existing interests in the region , notably those of the Stanley family , whose landed interests in the north west had been augmented by several key duchy offices . |
| 25 | It thus cut across existing interests in the region , notably those of the Stanley family , whose landed interests in the north west had been augmented by several key duchy offices . |
| 26 | Comparable mechanisms have been found in several other insect species ( e.g. Fraser Rowell and McKay , 1969 ; McKay , 1969 ; Roeder , 1969 ) . |
| 27 | The Front has been linked with several dubious organisations . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A tendency has sometimes been observed for several successive eruptions to occur with noticeable periodicity and for successive thermals to be in the same places each time . |
| 30 | This approach , which had already been followed by several German theologians in the nineteenth century , especially Gottfried Thomasius ( 1802–15 ) , took its cue from Philippians 2:7 , which speaks of Christ as having ‘ emptied himself ’ ( in Greek , ekenosen ) . |