Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |
| 2 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 3 | It was coloured a garish blue , an obvious re-spraying job after massive areas of the body-work had been filled in after various collisions . |
| 4 | Daffodil Quentin 's runner , Pampering , had been flown in with five others owned by people on the train , all of whom were strolling around with rosettes and almost permanently smiling faces . |
| 5 | The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which . |
| 6 | Twenty minutes later the guest speaker , Alex Campbell ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) arrived ( his train had been delayed by over two hours ) and the audience was entertained with a lecture/demonstration on Instant fire . |
| 7 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 8 | By the day before the completion of sale all the goods in her house had been gathered together in one room downstairs , some packed in wooden crates , some in black leather cases and tapestry bags , some still living free . |
| 9 | It is , therefore , a site of some strategic significance in any military context , a fact which has been recognized continuously since Roman times , when , at least under Agricola if not before , a fort was established here . |
| 10 | The authorities in Bosnia-Hercegovina ( whose independence , proclaimed in March — see p. 38832 — had been recognized widely since early April — -see pp. 38848-49 ) repeatedly requested foreign military aid and there were warnings that a flood of refugees , both Moslems and ethnic Croats , could pose a serious problem for neighbouring countries . |
| 11 | Among the canonist collectors and commentators at Bologna ( and probably also in Rome from time to time ) were the Englishmen , Gilbert and Alan , whose importance in canon law scholarship has been recognized only in recent years . |
| 12 | Colic , eczema , asthma , persistent runny nose , glue ear , headaches , migraine and even behavioural problems , have all been traced back to certain foods or food additives . |
| 13 | The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east . |
| 14 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 15 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 16 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 17 | The plaque was unadorned , the letters deeply carved in an elegant script reminiscent of Eric Gill , and Dalgliesh remembered his aunt telling him that it had been placed there by previous owners in the late twenties , when the cottage was originally extended . |
| 18 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 19 | This has been altered greatly in later times and was neglected in the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | A number of public sector pay awards have been treated leniently through supplementary estimates being granted , or have even been placed outside the limits . |
| 21 | So dear Dr. Godman I feel I have been treated badly in this case and would be grateful if you would pursue this matter further . |
| 22 | These patients had been treated earlier for pernicious anaemia in the same hospital between 1972 and 1985 . |
| 23 | It introduces , as has been pointed out by numerous speakers , the famous eighteen month rule . |
| 24 | The potential dangers of the unthinking use of league tables , however , as currently presented have been pointed out by several authors . |
| 25 | Various derivatives of the BCG matrix have been developed both by other consultancy firms and by large companies such as Shell , but a description of just one of these will suffice . |
| 26 | Briefings have been developed exclusively for senior management ultimately responsible for the design , development , marketing and selling of IT-based products and systems . |
| 27 | In Scotland the most obvious example of this — the Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) — is not strictly a local government but a regional organization , yet in many ways it has provided a model for initiatives which have since been developed elsewhere at local level . |
| 28 | It was as large a set as had been developed earlier for general use , except for the London area ( where a few larger sets had been installed in the 1930s and some larger sets of somewhat antiquated design were also completed by the BEA in its early years ) , There were , however , doubts about the flexibility in start-up and shut-down times for the new 60MW and other new designs , and a fortiori about more advanced designs . |
| 29 | The Primary Enterprise Pack — This support pack has been developed especially for primary school teachers by the Polytechnic of North London . |
| 30 | The point of departure is the general valuation model that has been developed out of discounted cash flow ( DCF ) techniques . |