Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [vb pp] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I choose this example because it has been well worked through in a paper by Betty Lou Dubois in Language and Society ( 1987 ) . |
| 2 | Timber has been well used here in a number of different ways . |
| 3 | This has been particularly remarked on in government contracts and has led to pressure to move towards fixed-price contracts . |
| 4 | The second class of superantigens has been clearly defined only in the mouse . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The most common quarry is the houbara bustard , which , after centuries of hunting with falcons , has been virtually wiped out in the Arabian Peninsula . |
| 7 | Regrettably this has been amply highlighted recently in many parts of the world where coastal deforestation has led to turbid conditions on adjacent reefs . |
| 8 | In the words of Winston Churchill , who has been much quoted already in the debate : ’ We are with Europe but not of it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As far as we knew , Frank had never been claimed and , having been quite cut off in Lebanon for a number of years before his kidnap , had less ‘ publicity ’ value than the other Yanks . |
| 13 | The fort underwent several alterations before it seems to have been systematically demolished early in the second century . |
| 14 | The economies of all fifteen Soviet republics had been closely bound together in an all-union division of labour ; about 20 per cent of their national income represented trade with other republics , as compared ( for instance ) with the European Community , only 16 per cent of whose trade was with other members . |
| 15 | This had been again held back in September because of Argentina 's failure to meet economic performance targets . |
| 16 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 17 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 18 | He had been so caught up in his thoughts he not heard the T'ang enter . |
| 19 | They began to realise that many procedures had been wrongly carried out in the management of the case , in particular that the Social Work Department were not implementing the decisions of the Children 's Panel . |
| 20 | Bosnia and Herzegovina had both been administered by Austria-Hungary since 1878 but had been formally annexed only in 1908 . |
| 21 | The federation had been formally set up in Paris on Sept. 22 by leaders of the pro-democracy movement who had fled China , including leading economists Yan Jiaqi and Chen Yizi , and Wan Runnan , head of China 's biggest private company , the Stone Co. [ see also p. 36815 ] . |
| 22 | The 25-year-old Dublin soldier had been virtually written off in the welterweight division . |
| 23 | The provisions of clauses 14 , 17 and 18 relevant to the issues before me have been helpfully set out in the affidavit of Mr. McKeown in which I have interpolated three numbers to indicate the particular passages which were dealt with in argument . |
| 24 | It is fair to claim that those words have been amply borne out in the intervening period and are confirmed again in this order . |
| 25 | It has lots of similar properties to a larger computer , in so much that it has a similar , what is referred to as a central processing unit , and in some instances similar peripheral devices , but if one can imagine that for certain applications where these have been collectively gathered together in erm the ultimate setting on a single integrated circuit , then one has a microcomputer , comprised of a microprocessor , some memory and some appropriate interfacing devices to the outside world . |
| 26 | North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary has revealed that nearly a thousand cancer patients have been wrongly treated there in the past nine years . |