Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tradition , and since 1911 the Indianapolis 500 has been rooted in American patriotism . |
| 2 | We have seen in this chapter that little has been achieved in British residential areas in terms of safer and more attractive environments . |
| 3 | Too little has been made in social work of the effect upon the child of long or repeated absences by the parent , except in relation to early maternal deprivation . |
| 4 | Gay energy has been taken up with service provision and public education : little has been left for meaningful activism , and our anger , fear and grief has been kept strictly privatised , so as not to exacerbate the hostility we face in the outside world , and so as not to risk funding . |
| 5 | A reduced gall bladder emptying in response to a meal and to infusion of CCK-33 has been reported in such patients . |
| 6 | What sporting challenge first conquered in 1875 has been attempted by four thousand two hundred people and achieved by just 423 ? |
| 7 | It is clear that the first year of the scheme has brought a wide range of benefits to patients , and that has been confirmed by independent evaluation by Professor Glennerster at the London school of economics . |
| 8 | Each of the proposals is carefully designed to meet a clear deficiency in our present arrangements , that has been acknowledged by many of the organisations that have commented on the Green Paper . |
| 9 | Gilligan identifies a theme of social concern and non-violence that is found mainly in women 's moral reasoning , and that has been ignored in previous descriptions of sex differences in this area . |
| 10 | Will he also tell us why he has refused to adopt the alternative package approach , involving a mixture of public transport and road schemes , that has been advocated by local authorities in the west midlands ? |
| 11 | In spite of all that has been said by popular moralists , along the lines of honesty being the best policy , everyone really knows implicitly that it is by this test of universalisability that one should determine what one ought to do . |
| 12 | From this history , it can therefore be seen that the scope , size and shape of the Burston site has altered considerably in that time as a result of the £4 million that has been spent over that period . |
| 13 | Ideally , you should eat all that has been suggested at each mealtime . |
| 14 | And in the past , the , the nearest we 've got to that is taking them along to a fire station and telling them what sort of people we are , that has been proved in many cases to be counterproductive , because it 's actually an incentive if you wish to set fires from other districts than this . |
| 15 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 16 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 17 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 18 | Of course drugs is , is one of the wonderful examples that the very thing that Katherine was talking about , something that was n't there in the beginning and that has been produced by modern technology and is now a big problem , but is not a problem to Australian Aborigines because they do n't have any drugs er to speak of , of course now they do and alcohol is a terrible problem with Australian Aborigines I talked to David McKnight about it . |
| 19 | The campaign to bring Blair Peach 's murderer to justice and the demand for a full public inquiry into the events of ‘ 79 has been mounted for nine and a half years by the Friends of Blair Peach Committee . |
| 20 | This has been highlighted in two lines of decisions in road traffic cases where the plaintiffs ' damages have been reduced , even though they in no way caused or contributed to the accidents in which they were injured . |
| 21 | This has been recognised for some time , perhaps most articulately in France , as one of the attainments to be expected from a top-class academic teacher and researcher , with an outstanding ability in accurate communication with the men ( and women ) in the street : haute popularisation . |
| 22 | This has been recognised in particular by UK companies , and only a minority of large UK companies do not now use graphical means of data presentation in their corporate annual reports . |
| 23 | This has been caused by infected suburban foxes from the east ( where until last month there was no vaccination programme ) finding their way into the city centre and crossing what was once the border into West Berlin . |
| 24 | The birds ' filters enhance their sensitivity to red , and this has been exploited by other creatures . |
| 25 | This has been demonstrated in conventional medical circles in the study of psychosomatic illness and the placebo effect , and in certain alternative medical practices such as faith healing and yoga . |
| 26 | QUALITY COUNTS in Lothian Regional Council and this has been demonstrated by another successful BS 5750 certification . |
| 27 | This has been followed by some authorities and voluntary agencies who developed codes , which they apply in relation to the homes which they administer . |
| 28 | The success of Britain ‘ s efforts within Europe can therefore largely be judged in terms of the rate at which trade has expanded between Member States , the extent to which this has been based on free and fair competition , and on whether there has been a significant increase in trade between countries of the EEC and the world outside . |
| 29 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 30 | The decline of British manufacturing industry has had a devastating impact on the inner cities where such a large proportion of the black population live and this has been exacerbated by racial discrimination by employers to yield high levels of black youth unemployment ( Martin and Rowthorn , 1986 ; Newnham , 1986 ) . |