Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar DOE has been found in experiments by Edwards , Jagielo , Zentall and Hogan ( 1982 ) , who used different types of grain to differentiate the outcomes , and by Peterson and Trapold ( 1984 ) who presented ( in the correlated condition ) food after a correct response for one trial-type and just a feedback tone for a correct response for the other type of trial . |
| 2 | Everyone knows why the riots began : 27 years after the Watts rebellion , 12 years after Ronald Reagan took office , south central LA has been drained of jobs , services , and hope . |
| 3 | The noise nuisance investigation service offered by Middlesbrough has been inundated with complaints , public protection officer John Mann told councillors . |
| 4 | BLOW ONE : One of the best winter hotspots on the Warwickshire Avon has been lost to anglers following a decision by Stratford-On-Avon District Council amenities committee to ban fishing opposite the Hilton Hotel in the town . |
| 5 | It is quite true that Corbett has been applied to situations outside marriage , eg. , the alteration of birth certificates , unfair dismissal ( White v. |
| 6 | MARKS & Spencer has been criticised by mothers who claim that it is Britain 's least parent-friendly stores group . |
| 7 | Since gaining independence within the Commonwealth ( as an " independent sovereign state " from 1963 and as a republic from 1967 ) , Uganda has been ruled by regimes dominated first by Milton Obote ( 1962-71 ) and then by Idi Amin ( 1971-79 ) ; Obote was re-elected as President in 1980 in the aftermath of the Tanzanian backed overthrow of Amin the previous year , but was himself overthrown in 1985 . |
| 8 | The flow of the Tigris has been regulated with locks and sluices and the river banks raised to prevent water reaching the marshes . |
| 9 | It 's not the first time Milton Keynes has been hit by firebombers . |
| 10 | The company 's spokesman , Paddy Carson — a verbose Irishman with an impressive lay command of environmental issues — says that since the row over Probe 's involvement , Loblaws has been deluged with letters of support from concerned consumers . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , heightened expectations of the imminent release of Nelson Mandela had been fuelled by remarks on Jan. 8 by his wife Winnie Mandela , who said after a three-hour visit to his prison bungalow that " I do n't think that we are talking about months any longer " . |
| 12 | In the gunbattles yesterday , Col Peck said a number of relief agency offices and residences in central Mogadishu had been hit by bullets and what he called ‘ ballistic fallout ’ . |
| 13 | 13 1 ) that a man from Sybaris and another from Siris , both Italian towns , were among Agariste 's suitors at Sikyon ; and some of the poets patronized by the western Greeks had experience of mainland monarchy — Pindar and Simonides both wrote for Sicilian patrons : Pindar composed the Tenth Pythian , his earliest poem , for the Thessalian Thorax of Larisa , and Simonides had been patronized by Polykrates of Samos and Pisistratus of Athens in turn . |
| 14 | John Hitchen , prosecuting , told Teesside Crown Court police dog handlers on patrol in the estate 's Marshall Avenue had been pelted with missiles . |
| 15 | TIPSS have been performed on patients without interfering with successful transplantation . |
| 16 | The North has been hit by changes in the British economy ; changes which were already apparent before the Conservatives took office , but which accelerated during the 1980s . |
| 17 | But the documents and witnesses to prove that the army conducted archaeological excavations have been found , this despite the fact that the area of Barbariga has been closed to archaeologists since World War II , and the islands of Brijuni were off-limits to the public once they became Tito 's residence . |
| 18 | Mr Bond has been threatened with receiverships , the loss of boardroom control at his key Bell Resources company , failure to secure sale of the breweries , share suspensions , disclosure that a former employee may have been involved in telephone bugging and the final indignity of a derisory A$53 million bid from rival Kerry Packer for his TV interests . |
| 19 | Prosecuting counsel Mr David Williams told the court that British Telecom had been plagued by thefts and in May last year officers from the regional crime squad began keeping observations on the trio . |
| 20 | Earlier , on June 30 and July 1 , the universities at Nairobi and Eldoret had been closed following confrontations between students and police . |
| 21 | On the platform he Lenin had been confronted by men come back from prison or exile , who greeted him with tears on their cheeks … |
| 22 | Mr Roberts said Sarbutts had been held by police on a minor offence in October , 1988 , when police were still searching for Mr Galvin 's killer . |
| 23 | Coumbassa had been criticized by students for his refusal to start a dialogue with them . |
| 24 | Huntsmen in Northern Ireland have been alerted by police after letter bombs were sent to two hunt members . |
| 25 | Arms and explosives bound for Loyalists in Northern Ireland have been seized by Customs officers in Teesport . |
| 26 | A quarter of waste dumps in England have been closed by companies in attempt to sidestep new pollution control rules , leaving a toxic legacy which could cost councils millions of pounds to clean up . |
| 27 | Many of the first traces of human habitation in what we now call Scotland have been identified from bones and stone implements found in caves along the approaches to the eastern firths of Forth and Tay . |
| 28 | Graham has been put before seminars of skin specialists from all over the British Isles — and has even seen one expert from Canada . |
| 29 | The labour shortage in the USSR has been forecast by demographers now for nearly two decades . |
| 30 | In the past the controversy about the nature of the role of the Commons has been reflected in arguments about the proper level of MPs ' pay . |