Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The reformed character 's level of co-operation in training and responsiveness to advice has been noticeably improved along with his dress sense . |
| 32 | The Labour Party course has been deliberately misrepresented both by the government and by much of the press . |
| 33 | Scotland 's position has been fully exposed recently by peers of both parties in the House of Lords where the Government , represented by Earl Howe , confirmed its determination to avoid causing ‘ unnecessary hardship ’ to the few part-time English drift-netters . |
| 34 | With the development of the form of recklessness found in MPC v Caldwell [ 1982 ] AC 341 ( HL ) , which applies in this area ( Seymour [ 1983 ] 2 AC 493 ( HL ) ) there are now authorities to the effect that manslaughter by gross negligence has been totally swallowed up by reckless manslaughter : Kong Cheuk Kwan v R ( 1985 ) 82 Cr App R 18 ( PC ) and Goodfellow ( 1986 ) 83 Cr App R 23 ( CA ) . |
| 35 | ‘ I just feel it has been totally taken out of my hands . ’ |
| 36 | It has been very stretched lengthways on the machine and needs a couple of hours to recover . |
| 37 | ‘ You 'd be surprised how many diabetics manage to live perfectly normal lives , provided they follow the diet that has been specifically worked out for them , and it is important , ’ she stressed carefully . |
| 38 | Yet many easterners complain that , since their revolutions began in 1989 , the Community has been too wrapped up in its own affairs to give them the attention they deserve . |
| 39 | Now I 'm against that and I 'm therefore against I regret to say what the Noble Lord , Lord said , and I 'm extremely sorry to see that he has moved on this particular matter er because th there is no case , that has been really made out for this . |
| 40 | The most common quarry is the houbara bustard , which , after centuries of hunting with falcons , has been virtually wiped out in the Arabian Peninsula . |
| 41 | Prickett , a former captain of the Wanderers , has been warmly welcomed back at the Memorial Grounds . |
| 42 | Regrettably this has been amply highlighted recently in many parts of the world where coastal deforestation has led to turbid conditions on adjacent reefs . |
| 43 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |
| 44 | Their statement that ‘ the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas ’ ( 1970/1846 : 64 ) has been much quoted both by Marxists and non-Marxists . |
| 45 | In the words of Winston Churchill , who has been much quoted already in the debate : ’ We are with Europe but not of it . |
| 46 | The challenge to increase membership has been imaginatively taken up by some groups . |
| 47 | A clear and detailed historical account of this event is given by Ammianus Marcellinus , who has always been accepted as one of the more reliable of the ancient historians , although it has been recently pointed out by Professor Malcolm Todd that Theodosius I was the patron of Marcellinus , who can hardly be blamed for enlarging on the achievements of the father of the Emperor . |
| 48 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 49 | As things stand , the existing evidence has been wildly over-interpreted both by Shepher and by others who have uncritically accepted his conclusions ( e.g. Lumsden & Wilson , 1981 ; van den Berghe , 1982 ) . |
| 50 | Martial law , expected by many to continue at least until the Asian Games in September , has been formally ended both in Beijing and Lhasa , though the troops remain ( mid-May ) , the first anniversaries had passed without significant incident . |
| 51 | Scottish Natural Heritage ( SNH ) has been formally set up from the merger of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland . |
| 52 | Connery , 62 , still regarded as one of Hollywood 's biggest heart-throbs , has been quietly sounded out by MGM studio bosses . |
| 53 | Sam Yaeger spent Monday at the boatyard because he 'd been medically stood down from racing as a result of a fall , but by Tuesday he was racing again , and on Wednesday he rode at Ascot , so the boathouse was vulnerable all day Tuesday and again Wednesday morning . ’ |
| 54 | Incredible as it seemed , she 'd been too caught up in her own unhappiness to give a second 's thought to the play , which was due to open that very evening . |
| 55 | She 'd been so caught up in her thoughts that the voice near her side came as a shock , but even as she turned she realised the words had n't been aimed at her . |
| 56 | Given that the decision has now been taken by Parliament to extend the law to cover recordings , broadcasts and cable programmes , it may be wondered whether the exemption for these should have been automatically carried over into the new law . |
| 57 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 58 | The seeds of life might have appeared spontaneously here or in space , or they might have been deliberately sent here by an extra-terrestrial intelligence . |
| 59 | In other areas at other times , the missing animal might have been quickly spirited away to another district for sale to a cultivator or butcher . |
| 60 | What emerges from an attempt to answer the last question is that the known low-cost reserves will have been significantly run down by 2025 , but total reserves are large , sufficient to last for more than 400 years at present rates of consumption , according to one estimate . |