Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been examined by experts in many different parts of the world . |
| 2 | Nor did Gustave — shouting for wine , leading the animal round the room and bellowing its virtues : ‘ The young phenomenon is three years old , has passed the Académie de Métecine , and has been honoured by visits from several crowned heads , etc . ’ |
| 3 | Less has been heard from mothers for many of whom maintenance is their only chance of getting off benefit . |
| 4 | Canon by inversion is not as easy to follow as normal imitation , and perhaps by reason of this obscurity it has been favoured by composers in this century — or at least by those who prefer obscurity to clarity . |
| 5 | This is a good argument as it stands but one can well imagine that it would have been pressed in terms of these hopefuls having a right to be paid if they succeeded . |
| 6 | The plant , an older-style , Soviet-designed pressurised water reactor , has been plagued by problems for several years . |
| 7 | The Blackbird Leys estate , together with others in Oxford , has been plagued by joyriders for more than a year . |
| 8 | Since the 1960s , when a number of new social movements — among them the student movement , various national and ethnic movements , and the women 's movement — became extremely active in political life , a great deal more attention has been given by sociologists to such forms of political action , which may be seen not only as constituting a basis or context for the development of more highly organized political activities , but also as political forces in their own right , existing alongside and sometimes in conflict with , established parties and pressure groups . |
| 9 | A tiny teardrop in a shimmering sea at the foot of the Indian peninsula , Sri Lanka is an untamed isle which has been coveted by Westerners for many centuries . |
| 10 | The barons complained that Henry III had arbitrarily re-afforested woods and lands which had been put out of the forest by the perambulations of 1225 ; that he claimed the wardship of heirs to assarts made within the forest , to the detriment of the overlords in whose lands such assarts had been made ; and that he made frequent grants of the right of free warren in disafforested areas , thereby restricting the free rights of hunting which ought to have been enjoyed by landowners in such districts . |
| 11 | This could well explain the fact that the trend since 1970 towards deferring first births has largely been confined to women with more education ( see Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 12 | Some guidance can be derived from a study of flexible learning methods where whole courses have been designed for students in this staged progressive fashion . |
| 13 | The Conservatives have been concerned about what they have regarded as bias , especially left-wing bias , in the way issues have been presented to pupils by some teachers . |
| 14 | In addition , in its role as a Designated Research Centre the scope of research has been widened and contacts have been made with researchers in many other countries , including USA , Sweden and France . |
| 15 | That was pretty stupid , because not only was he on the list of residents , but he 'd been seen at mealtimes by several of the other members . |
| 16 | History has been seen by politicians of all parties as being vital to informed citizenship . |
| 17 | The polymerase chain reaction has been unquestionably unique , as new techniques go , in the speed with which it has been embraced by non-experts in most specialties of the biological sciences , including medicine . |
| 18 | In 1678 he applied for a patent for a new way of processing flax , which may have been related to investigations of this topic made under the society 's auspices in the 1660s . |
| 19 | It seems most likely , however , that it was a word like ‘ Teddy Boy ’ or ‘ Mod ’ or ‘ Skinhead ’ which , coming out of the popular culture of working-class London , had been adopted by youths in some localities in order to describe themselves and what they took for their common identity . |
| 20 | He was quick to come to the city 's defence , arguing that , what was lacking in financial support , was made up for in sheer determination , enthusiasm and innovation , ‘ We have been keen to draw out the general cultural life of Dublin ’ , he explained , ‘ much of our funding has been matched by donations from such organisations as the EEC ’ . |
| 21 | Non-brecchia rocks have been produced by impact-disruption of large sheets of various highland rocks and of mare basalts , and brecchias have been produced from fragments of these rocks . |
| 22 | The plant oil closely resembles sperm-whale oil , which has been used in cosmetics for many years . |
| 23 | This technique has been used by salespeople for many years and consequently should be used with care , especially with professional buyers who are likely to have experienced its use many times and know exactly what the salesperson is doing . |
| 24 | Remarkably , the unit has been forged from members of both the former SWAPO guerrillas and the South-African backed koevert counter-insurgency force , who only two years ago were locked in a ferocious bush war . |
| 25 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 26 | Users have been conditioned by accountants over many years , so that their expressed needs may simply reflect marginal improvements on what they have already been receiving . |
| 27 | Dealers have been showered with complaints about this highly sophisticated piece of equipment which has apparently developed a serious fault . |
| 28 | In some cases registration was said to be complete when no one had been entered on lists at all . |
| 29 | Delayed increases in rotation rate have not previously been observed in glitches in any pulsar , on either a short or a long timescale . |
| 30 | The possibility that these momentarily high pressures may damage jointed rocks can not be ignored , but there is , curiously enough , no direct evidence as yet that actual damage has been caused by waves of this type . |