Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 2 | Lorry driver Bill , 51 , of Merthyr Tydfil , South Wales , said yesterday : ‘ I was in so much pain I could n't dress myself after I had been examined and needed a wheelchair . ’ |
| 3 | This case has been discussed at length , especially in the literature on international trade ( see for example Jones , 1971a , and Magee , 1976 ) , and has been treated as representing the effects of unionization by Johnson and Mieszkowski ( 1970 ) . |
| 4 | The wage differential ( ) has been treated as representing the effects of unionization , but this does not seem a particularly satisfactory way of investigating union behaviour . |
| 5 | My husband has suffered from heartburn on and off for years and has recently been diagnosed as having a hiatus hernia . |
| 6 | [ T ] he mental health sector will be working in collaboration with the health service in developing a ‘ Care Programme Approach ’ to the provision of services to people who have been diagnosed as having a serious mental illness . |
| 7 | You have tried to either update a product which has already been registered or to register a product which has already been registered . |
| 8 | A method has been developed that allows the measurement of metabolism in ileocolonoscopic biopsy specimens , and this has been used to assess butyrate and glutamine metabolism in quiescent UC and controls . |
| 9 | The problem occurs because the child has not been taught and learned an alternative , desirable , behaviour to the PB . |
| 10 | This might have been regarded as making the local manager 's job more straightforward but as one set of pressures was removed others made themselves felt . |
| 11 | Since the development of the plate tectonics model , the Andes have sometimes been regarded as representing a classic example of the orogenic consequences of the subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath an overriding continental plate . |
| 12 | NILTs have always been regarded as representing the acceptable face of tribunals . |
| 13 | ‘ Consumers ’ or ‘ users ’ have traditionally been regarded as having no realistic , lucid , practical views to offer , and many professionals feel that the very nature of mental illness precludes users of services from making a sensible contribution . |
| 14 | Again , the executor and administrator have long been regarded as having the deceased 's possession continued in them ; when they assume office their title relates back to his death . |
| 15 | To express the awkwardness of the Spartan position Thucydides uses awkward language ( i.88 ) : the Spartans voted , he says , that the ‘ libations ’ had been broken and took a decision for war not so much because they were persuaded by the arguments of their allies as because they were afraid of the growth of Athenian power . |
| 16 | There were six staff present including the Project Coordinator , the new teacher-librarian , the head , representatives of basic studies , maths and science , and a social education teacher who had been designated as holding an implementation of policy post ( or " 10p posts " as they were commonly called ) . |
| 17 | She had not been consulted and had no wish to part with any of her land . |
| 18 | Organisational changes have been introduced and a policy statement has been formulated that provides the blueprint for care for the future , and ensures that it will be conducted in accordance with the latest and best practices of the nursing profession . |
| 19 | As the years passed , we became more confident that our crime had been forgotten and began the custom of every year meeting to celebrate Christmas . |
| 20 | John Tomlinson 's article , Dose , Dilution and the LM Potencies which was first published in the Journal of the Society of Homœopaths ( Vol. 10 No. 4 Dec. 1990 ) has been included and gives a detailed analysis of Hahnemann 's thinking which led to his development of the LM system . |
| 21 | Before the High Court ruling , opposition parties had been reported as considering a boycott , amid allegations that Moi 's Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) was attempting to rig the elections . |
| 22 | They have been reported as spending a great deal of time analysing conversations that they have held with the various Ketamine entities . |
| 23 | Richard Hay , land director of Charles Church ( East Anglia ) Ltd , agreed that Mrs Mack had been approached but said the scheme could go ahead anyway . |
| 24 | When an aircraft has been designed and built a full-sized specimen must be tested for strength and stiffness . |
| 25 | When such incidents occur the guests feel that their trip has been ruined and blame the hotel , even when they may have contributed to the criminal opportunityby not securing their valuables in a safe deposit box . |
| 26 | His buildings were never precious or timid , and avoided the excesses of some recent schemes which have been presented as wearing the conservation mantle . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , once the questionnaire data had been collected and compared the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) was able to present a summary report which included sections on : the relative contribution of subject areas to the eight areas of experience ; the nature and degree of relevance assigned to subject teaching ; a selective summary of the skills taught by various faculties ; an account of the way departments justified their teaching methods ; an analysis of subject overlap ; a description of evaluation procedures ; and a department by department judgement of outcomes . |
| 28 | The ordeal of repetition is a way to jumpstart the indecision of beginning again : not to repeat what has been done but to retrace the same path . |
| 29 | In view of the financial vulnerability of the project , the researchers argue that the most efficient solution would be for the governments to re-purchase the franchise once the Tunnel has been built and run the operation at marginal cost . |
| 30 | She herself had been named as wearing a white robe — and was asked had she ever done so . |