Example sentences of "[vb base] been [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NALGO 's members , who are mostly women , are bitter that they 've been pushed to take industrial action . |
| 2 | HOUSEHOLDERS in north Belfast have been warned to take extra security measures following a spate of burglaries in the area . |
| 3 | Its purpose is to examine in detail the various experimental procedures that have been said to demonstrate acquired distinctiveness and to determine which generate reliable effects that are not to be explained away in other terms . |
| 4 | Dates and locations have been arranged to suit offshore work patterns and the personnel selected to attend . |
| 5 | They have been devised to place minimum strain on the lifter and her back , while ensuring that the patient is not at risk of falling or being dropped . |
| 6 | Wherever possible , statistics have been cited to condense general changes which cover long periods . |
| 7 | Conversely , natural monopolies in the public sector which at times have been instructed to use marginal cost pricing will almost inevitably make losses . |
| 8 | Similarly , at various times nationalized industries have been instructed to pursue social objectives or to help implement incomes policy by holding their price increases to less than the general inflation rate . |
| 9 | In terms of policy , Heads of Departments have been instructed to produce detailed guidance based on the principles contained in the Regional Council 's policy document to be issued to all groups of employees within the Department concerned . |
| 10 | The government is becoming aware of the threat and songs have been composed to educate rural women farmers on the use of fertilizers , pesticides and food storage in order that they can increase production . |
| 11 | In the Altamont Pass in California some 2000 microprocessor controlled windmills have been erected to supply commercial electricity . |
| 12 | Clients under pressure have been tempted to take short cuts in the hope that , when demand picks up again , they will be able to cover up their tracks . |
| 13 | Unlike the declaration and the injunction , which are private law remedies ( i.e. remedies for the redress of private law wrongs ) which have been extended to redress public law illegality , damages is a purely private law remedy . |
| 14 | Comparative figures for 1990 have been restated to reflect additional information received and the 1990 figures in the audited accounts . |
| 15 | The mill has been completely redesigned ; new offices have been built to accommodate regional staff , and almost every corner of the site has been affected in some way or another . |
| 16 | Our brains have been built by natural selection to assess probability and risk , just as our eyes have been built to assess electromagnetic wavelength . |
| 17 | The no-neutrino results have been achieved using magnetic spectrometers . |
| 18 | In a report on marine pollution , the organization states that 12,000 pipes have been licensed to discharge industrial effluent . |
| 19 | Numerous experiments have been conducted involving different variations of the principles . |
| 20 | Few randomised controlled trials have been conducted using filtered blood , and most of them have been small , unblinded , and concerned with laboratory rather than clinical end points . |
| 21 | It demonstrates how Conservative administrations in the 1980s have been determined to reduce public expenditure and to ensure that support is ultimately dependent on central-government approval — a constant theme in inner-urban policy , which later chapters explore . |
| 22 | So far , although applications have been piloted using particular delivery media , such as CD-ROM , CD-I and DVI , these have generally been databases confined to the individual media . |
| 23 | But for some Japan has been ‘ a little bit of a struggle ’ this year , and its problems have been seen to affect other markets in the region . |
| 24 | You have been asked to prepare short entries about the Jingo and the Spiggy . |
| 25 | All too often , conservators have been asked to make important decisions affecting the state of a work of art without informed comment from other specialists . |
| 26 | Airlines have been asked to check new Boeing 737s after an alert by the US Federal Aviation Authority that a bolt may have been left off the plane 's forward door during production . |
| 27 | Those doctors who have been trained to practise Ayurvedic medicine ( a traditional type of Indian medicine ) have been able to show that foods such as fresh vegetables , rice and pulses produce the clearest and most balanced mental state . |
| 28 | For more than a decade , Lloyd 's has been riven by scandals of various kinds ; professionals employed to assess the riskiness of insured risks and apportion them among the rich risk-takers have been discovered to have salted funds away on their own account . |
| 29 | Children in the Faroe Islands have been discovered to have alarmingly-high levels of mercury present in their tissues , apparently as a result of their mothers consuming meat from pilot whales during pregnancy . |
| 30 | In the case of some engines which have been adjusted to take unleaded fuel , you may be advised to fill up with one tank of leaded to every three of unleaded fuel . |