Example sentences of "[noun pl] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir John , chairman of the scientific group on the United Nations intergovernmental panel on climate change , and a former chief executive of the Meteorological Office , said : ‘ Never before have so many scientists from so many disciplines been involved in scientific assessment . ’ |
| 2 | Not only have such unsupervised activities been questionable in terms of economics , they have also had a profound effect on the river environment . |
| 3 | Why , for example , have Scottish cities been exempt from the urban riots which , every year since 1981 , have seen parts of English towns and cities literally torn apart ? |
| 4 | ‘ That made my night , ’ said Mrs Simmons , who has several times been successful in the regional awards with portrait , wedding and commercial subjects . |
| 5 | The distinction between natural and non-natural user has at times been confused with the distinction between things naturally on the land and things artificially there . |
| 6 | Why else have people through the ages been obsessed with finding methods to reduce complex , individual human personalities to ‘ types ’ ? |
| 7 | Had the words been capable of bearing this defamatory meaning , Schild might have been awarded enormous damages . |
| 8 | Had the decision-makers been aware of the choices others were making during the same period , they would have perceived opportunities for more attractive courses of market action than those actually adopted . |
| 9 | Have the parents been X-rayed for hip dysplasia and do they hold eye certificates ? 2 . |
| 10 | Yet although this sub-discipline has from its origins been concerned with the nature of the artefactual world as an element of culture offering insights into that part of social behaviour which is oriented towards the creation and use of objects , the rather particular history of this series of studies has hitherto severely limited its application . |
| 11 | Had more companies been honest with themselves a dividend passed completely would have been better and then a new base could have set at a suitable level . |
| 12 | While the Bakufu administration had for several decades been subject to criticisms from within its own ranks , a more serious threat to its supremacy emerged from within domains traditionally hostile to it . |
| 13 | But the protests could probably have been avoided altogether had officials been sensitive to Tibetan worries . |
| 14 | They had for many years been estranged from each other . |
| 15 | The errors of this motley crew have for years been apparent in the Athena , Barclay 's , Hunting Group , Littlewoods , John Player , BP , Overseas League , NEAC , the R.A. , and no doubt , many other prizes and awards . |
| 16 | And , and I I think we 're in danger of being complacent over the D S O. Now I have over many years been involved with the D S O , and er , and I I support their efforts . |
| 17 | The Barker family had for many years been involved in mining , with for example , the Champions in their mines in Ireland . |
| 18 | HCIMA has for many years been active in accrediting hotel and catering programmes , both in Europe and around the world . |
| 19 | Field trials have for many years been concerned with finding a clone less susceptible to frost and this was initially seen as a way of upgrading some of the frost-prone vineyards of the Marne Valley which are traditionally planted with the hardier Pinot Meunier . |
| 20 | Margaret Shepherd , whose cafe in Queen Street has for many years been popular with parties of elderly people , said many handicapped groups had cancelled this year because they could no longer walk straight from the cafe to the seafront . |
| 21 | The human race has for thousands of years been aware of powerful links between tears and health . |
| 22 | We 've seen activists sacked , we 've seen activists been unable to , to get a job . |
| 23 | In few studies have the higher moments been used to advantage , the principal exception being that of Sly ( 1977 , 1978 ) who used the skewness — kurtosis interrelationships to recognize differing environmental energy levels in deposits of the Great Lakes ( Fig. 3.1() ) . |
| 24 | Floating plastic ball blankets which lie on the surface in the same way as a crust have been tried , the manufacturers claiming they have on occasions been beneficial in reducing odours presumably by reducing evaporation , although the precise reason is not apparently known . |