Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] but [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group identified three specific problems : the large number of design and furniture requirements ; the fact that many Woonerven did not meet these requirements ; and that there was no legal regulation for Woonerf-like areas that were not located in residential areas but had been set up in shopping streets ( Winkelerven ) ( Figure 4.9 ) and village centres ( Dorpserven ) . |
| 2 | Such a model has been influential in the way we think about and respond to a variety of social problems but has been particularly significant in framing research , policy and practice in child abuse . |
| 3 | Says she does n't know the engine-room well but has been there a couple of times . |
| 4 | There has been some doubt about the law with regard to traffic-calming measures other than road humps which has meant that authorities have produced traffic-calming schemes but have been left in some doubt as to whether they could be prosecuted for obstructing the highway . |
| 5 | It was the ninth goal of the season for a player who embodies all the traditional strengths of the old-fashioned British centre-forward but has been used only once against Czechoslovakia in Graham Taylor 's two- year reign . |
| 6 | This has not been developed into such a standard technique but has been used to investigate both laminar and turbulent flows . |
| 7 | Communists improved only slightly on the vote of 1929 , when they had fought under less favourable conditions but had been less fully committed to the " social fascist " position . |
| 8 | Man-made fibres can be split into two groups , those that are derived from natural sources but have been transformed by chemical treatment , and those that are made totally from chemical sources and are therefore synthetic . |
| 9 | They are a most important source for local history , archaeology and social and economic studies but have been mostly unpublished and difficult to use . |
| 10 | The commission found that Galileo 's judges had acted in good faith but had been " incapable of dissociating faith from an age-old cosmology " . |
| 11 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |
| 12 | Metal whiskers of this kind had been known of , in a general sort of way , for a long time but had been regarded as a nuisance or a curiosity . |
| 13 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 14 | Local traders complain the Wales 's were once a familiar sight but have been hounded off the streets by pressmen . |
| 15 | The financial information contained in this document does not constitute the Company 's statutory accounts but has been extracted from the statutory accounts of LASMO for the five years ended 31 December 1991 and also includes certain other information . |
| 16 | All three are inherent components of the natural earth surface processes that occur in arid and semi-arid regions but have been exacerbated by human activity . |
| 17 | These are no idle scratchings but have been carefully and purposefully incised , and the reason is self-evident . |
| 18 | Britain is due to have four submarines armed with the new Tridents but has been worried that recent votes in the Senate to cut funding for production of the missile could delay delivery of the weapons , scheduled to start next year , to the Royal Navy . |
| 19 | Discussions over the need for increased powers for the Scottish party were initiated by its nationalist wing but have been seized on by the left as a means of ensuring that Labour 's different electoral aims north and south of the Border do not lead to alienation of the party 's traditional supporters in Scotland . |
| 20 | ‘ What are you waiting for ? ’ hissed Cardiff , tearing the tie loose from his collar , realising that he still had the automatic in his other hand but had been unable to use it again . |
| 21 | The Disabled Persons ' ( Services Consultation and Representation ) Act ( 1986 ) , added to the powers of local authorities but has been implemented only slowly . |
| 22 | Organisational culture has become a fashionable concept but has been forced to bear a heavier weight than it can sustain in explanations of organisational performance ( as the recently declining fortunes of some of the companies studied by Peters and Waterman illustrate ) . |
| 23 | If you have earned pension rights in past employments but have been unable to claim your entitlements because you have lost touch with your pension scheme , then the Occupational Pensions Board 's pensions tracing service could provide the missing link . |
| 24 | Mr Millan disclosed that the EC wanted the committee to be composed of 150 elected local representatives but had been overruled by the European leaders at the Maastricht summit . |