Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [been] [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several flats have living rooms in which the loading-bay doors of the original warehouse have been converted into fully glazed French windows sited behind simple steel railings . |
| 2 | Most signals have been discovered by simply watching the behaviour of interacting animals . |
| 3 | Successive legislative steps have been taken since then to tighten the restrictions on access to tobacco by young children . |
| 4 | A surrender value may not be available if premiums have been paid for less than two years . |
| 5 | Sightings have been reported from as far as France and the Netherlands . |
| 6 | The lakes have been used by both industry and farmers as a dumping ground for a variety of potentially toxic chemicals , including polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) and organochlorine insecticides such as dieldrin and DDT . |
| 7 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 8 | Where very large units have been created by either purchase or amalgamation the ‘ personal touch ’ , to which many farmers ascribe the absence of industrial relations problems in British agriculture , may in any case be inoperable . |
| 9 | Addresses have been drawn by statistically random methods and , as you will appreciate , the success of the research depends upon our obtaining the highest possible response rate as only then can we ensure that the sample is truly representative . |
| 10 | Do you know that two-thirds of obstetricians in the States have been sued at least once in their lives ? |
| 11 | Arab immigrants to the United States have been drawn from all over the Middle East . |
| 12 | Why is it then that these halls have been recalled with so much pleasure in so much twentieth-century writing ? |
| 13 | A variety of different survey methods have been touched on above , in describing studies related to circulation , in-house use and availability . |
| 14 | Statistical methods have been used to automatically deduce the linguistic categories of words from raw data ( Atwell , 1987 ) ( Atwell & Drakos , 1987 ) ( Atwell & Elliot , 1987 ) ( Finch & Carter , 1992 ) . |
| 15 | Cut price classical CDs are n't new but until now they 've either been old recordings or foreign orchestras have been used with relatively obscure performers and conductors . |
| 16 | ‘ Candidates have been ringing from all over the country wanting copies ; I have only been able to get my hands on two copies yet , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Those savings have been achieved by very careful housekeeping indeed . |
| 18 | The COSLA report estimated that official estimates of costs and savings have been miscalculated by as much as £100 million . |
| 19 | The rhyme 's historical references demonstrate how completely blackness and Britishness have been made into mutually exclusive categories , incompatible identities . |
| 20 | Despite the performance penalties and useful load restrictions caused by their weight , over the years floats have been fitted to almost every type of single-engined lightplane — and many twins . |
| 21 | New homes have been found for nearly all the animals . |
| 22 | Animals have been anthropomorphised since as long ago as Egyptian times . ’ |
| 23 | If the economy is weaker than it now appears — because , as some economists suggest , the government 's data have been inflated by unseasonably warm weather in January and February — then shares could fall sharply to reflect continued declines in company earnings . |
| 24 | Well so many of these songs have been done by so many people that you would be forgiven for thinking that , that . |
| 25 | Books have been written on just one aspect of one creature and yet have never reached the end of the story . |
| 26 | Some reformers have been accused of either exaggerating or misunderstanding contemporary developments . |
| 27 | Such hypotheses have been postulated by highly reputable geologists when no other possible cause can be found to explain certain phenomena . |
| 28 | Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains . |
| 29 | Responses have been received from all over the country , and in geographical terms , can regarded as broadly representative . |
| 30 | Many defendants have been fined of more than a thousand pounds , simnplky because they earned reasonable salries . |