Example sentences of "[coord] have be [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The builder had either spent three weeks cleaning it or had been kept in pristine condition , ’ says Darren . |
| 2 | Enraptured by the celluloid screen , we revelled in the romance that had been denied to us , or had been put in cold storage ‘ for the duration , . |
| 3 | Some memoirs , too , take us much further than official material ; those of de Gaulle are a case in point , while British official documents which in their original form remained hidden from the historian by the thirty-year rule were printed in the books of Winston Churchill and Eden , or have been unearthed in private collections by scholars able to disregard the consequences of publication . |
| 4 | In this discussion , I will confine myself to discussing examples of sexism from the English language , though of course it exists and has been analysed in other languages too . |
| 5 | The approach also has precedents among other women who were the first in their fields , and has been adopted in feminist work like that of Friedan and Greer . |
| 6 | There is good evidence that Cryptosporidium caused acute gastroenteritis as it has been found more frequently in the stools of children with diarrhoeal disease than controls and has been detected in diarrhoeal outbreaks . |
| 7 | He has already paid a brief visit to Middlesbrough and Hull and has been briefed in general terms on the hopes and needs of our diocese . |
| 8 | The biological part of the second argument shown in Fig. 24.2 is well-trodden ground and has been reviewed in numerous places recently ( e.g. Alexander , 1980 ; Fox , 1980 ; Thiessen & Gregg , 1980 ; Bixler , 1981 ) . |
| 9 | The ancient Penny Hedge ceremony , which dates from feudal times and has been promoted in recent times by the English Tourist Board , takes place in Whitby tomorrow . |
| 10 | Acarbose is a pseudotetrascaccharide and has been used in clinical trials with insulin dependent and non-insulin dependent diabetes to control hyperglycaemia , improve the diabetic metabolic condition , and , if possible , to reduce the insulin requirements . |
| 11 | This should be translated : I personally , off the top of my head sitting in my study , never having visited the Arctic , never having seen a polar bear in the wild , and having been educated in classical literature and theology , have not so far managed to think of a reason why polar bears might benefit from being white . |
| 12 | Franco 's failure to assist them undoubtedly contributed to that result and had been calculated in political rather than exclusively military terms . |
| 13 | Bahamas has arrived from Keighley the previous day , travelling in tandem with ‘ Princess Margaret Rose ’ from Blackburn and had been kept in light steam . |
| 14 | New Democracy , the antics of whose leaders had encouraged much of the media to treat it as a joke , was led by Count Ian Wachtmeister and had been formed in late 1990 as a populist " party of discontent " , campaigning on a platform which featured an overtly anti-immigrant stance . |
| 15 | The economy was undergoing its worst recession since 1945 and had been hit in particular by a fall of over 50 per cent in trade with the Soviet Union in the first three months of 1991 , and by a low dollar and over-valued Finnish markka , which seriously affected the forest industry . |
| 16 | Certain comments in relation to the problem in the judgment of Lamont J. at p. 345 , are cited by Phillips J. in his judgment in De Martell and have been cited in other common law jurisdiction decisions since 1933 . |
| 17 | Bargains are available provided you can be sure that the animals come from good stock and have been kept in good condition . |
| 18 | They are locally based , and have been formulated in direct opposition to those policies preferred by the centre . |
| 19 | The second is by looking at the patterns of coin finds , both those revealed by coins deposited in hoards and those which were casually lost and have been recovered in modern times by chance , by treasure hunting or by archaeological excavation . |
| 20 | Cash limits now cover directly some 60% of public expenditure and have been used in different ways throughout the public sector . |
| 21 | This assumption was universally accepted until recently by prehistorian and anthropologists , but has been refuted in recent studies of hunters and gatherers . |
| 22 | These complications are rare in males but have been described in male homosexuals . |