Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short length of new road linking Westburn Avenue to Baberton Mains Hill has been built passing beneath the Edinburgh/Carstairs railway which itself was diverted temporarily to facilitate the construction of this bridge and a larger one carrying the railway over the new bypass . |
| 2 | Today every single living thing that has ever lived , from a bacterium to a plant or a fully formed animal , has been built according to specifications laid down in the molecules of the dna called chromosomes . |
| 3 | Since 1977/8 , funding for hospital and community health services ( about £9 milliards for England alone in 1985/6 ) has been determined according to a formula named after the acronym of the Resource Allocation Working Party ( RAWP ) , which had the avowed aim of eventually achieving ‘ equal opportunity of access to health care for people at equal risk ’ ( DHSS , 1976b ) . |
| 4 | But gas has been recorded rising from the loch bed only in the shallower water of Urquhart Bay where the releases of small gas bubbles can be provoked by dragging grapples or dropping boulders . |
| 5 | In dogs , LAC type activity has been recorded originating from the interstitial cells of Cajal located at the submucosa-circular muscle interface of the colonic wall , where pacemaking takes place . |
| 6 | By comparison , a sheepdog has been recorded barking for seven hours non-stop and a cocker spaniel is capable of cramming over 900 yelps into a ten-minute period . |
| 7 | The spotted eagle owl is usually more an inhabitant of open country than is the Verreaux eagle owl , but it has been recorded nesting at the bottom of a 9 m shaft in a cave , well into the twilight zone ( Brain , 1981 ) . |
| 8 | When this operation has been done according to the conventional wisdom you then decide whether you like where you are apparently going to end up . |
| 9 | Altogether Jones has been sent packing on six occasions , the latest for swearing soon after rejoining Wimbledon from Chelsea . |
| 10 | The Ferrari-Ibañez-Bruni solution has been obtained using as seed the Kasner metric . |
| 11 | Just as the colonized has been constructed according to the terms of the colonizer 's own self-image , as the ‘ self-consolidating other ’ , so Europe |
| 12 | Contract and business law Investigators : D R Harris , Dr C G Veljanovski Considerable work has been undertaken focusing on a range of issues arising in contract law ( including involvement in an Anglo-French project ) , and an empirical study of the contractual relationship between car manufacturers and dealers . |
| 13 | In spite of these doubts , a powerful consortium using both corporate and national government funding has been formed consisting of such major electronics interests as Philips , Bosch , Thomson and Thorn EMI . |
| 14 | To help Cicely with the running of the team a small steering committee has been formed comprising of |
| 15 | Within Oxford Polytechnic , one consequence of Modular Course evaluation activities has been to sharpen thinking about course and institutional goals . |
| 16 | Many a person has been seen hastening into their house on a fine summer 's day by this bit of imitation . |
| 17 | The Def Jam supremo has been seen clubbing around LA with the aged Rolling Stone . |
| 18 | She reached across the desk , grabbed the instrument and began tapping out a number with the angry , impatient air of someone who has been kept waiting for an unacceptably long time . |
| 19 | Thus , in New South Wales , for example , a new offence of sexual assault has been created consisting of four categories and covering conduct which would formerly have amounted to rape , indecent assault or non-consensual buggery . |
| 20 | This hypothesis can be investigated by consulting figure 13.2 , in which the sample has been subdivided according to whether respondents lived in households with a gross annual income from all sources of less or more than £6000 in 1984 ( termed somewhat inaccurately ‘ the rich ’ and ‘ the poor ’ in the discussion which follows ) . |
| 21 | Comparison of the CONVEX-91 west section ( Fig. 1 ) with data from Erika Dan ( 1962 ) and Knorr ( 1983 ) in a similar fashion ( but on a 0.25° latitudinal grid ) shows that there has been marked cooling since 1962 , averaging -0.42°C , whereas since 1983 there has been no change , presumably because the effects of the first renewal of LSW had already reached the Irminger Basin . |
| 22 | A joyrider has been filmed driving at speeds of more than a hundred and fifty miles an hour along a motorway . |
| 23 | The method of work has been to get going at the time dictated by the candidate 's first duty of the day and the time taken to get to him . |
| 24 | PSI , which is supported by the EPHOS guide to public procurement , is a reaction to end-users ' belief that too much time has been spent focusing on the protocol aspect of interoperability — in which users are n't at all interested . |
| 25 | In more remote areas , where the NO x concentration can be extremely low , ozone destruction has been reported owing to photolysis by near ultraviolet light . |
| 26 | His thesis that the political coalition against Iraq has been assembled according to new precepts , and heralds the emergence of a new power structure , is entirely wrong . |
| 27 | TORY Minister Michael Howard has been caught travelling on a train without a ticket , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 28 | Evans , missing for over a season after failing to agree a contract with Saints , has been caught playing for Grenoble against Toulon . |
| 29 | Kate felt like a little girl who has been caught cheating in her exams . |
| 30 | What has also survived , at least in part , is a landscape which has been moulded according to those beliefs . |