Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is it then that these halls have been recalled with so much pleasure in so much twentieth-century writing ? |
| 2 | A capital intensive fruit plantation in the valley floor of a central American Republic can ‘ cause ’ soil erosion on hillsides which are being cultivated by peasants who have been dispossessed of more suitable land for cultivation . |
| 3 | Reintroduction of the Law on entry to and exit from the USSR had been delayed for almost 18 months in committee since its first reading . |
| 4 | But the start of the scheme has been delayed until later this year . |
| 5 | But the narrow out-crops on either side of Scotland have been honoured by comparatively few publications , though their story is much more exciting . |
| 6 | Since last autumn , the British government has been lobbied by increasingly frantic waste-paper merchants and plastics recyclers protesting that their markets are being destroyed by the backwash of German rubbish . |
| 7 | The processes in use have frequently been heavily dependent on imports , with only a modest local added value , and have been sustained by relatively high levels of protection . |
| 8 | Research summary : During the two year period for which this project was funded some 185,000 valuations have been gathered from nearly 17,000 probate inventories for the counties of Hertfordshire , Worcestershire , Lincolnshire , and Durham over the period 1550 — 1750 . |
| 9 | Sociological studies of cultural ‘ content ’ have been distinguished from otherwise comparable studies , in the history of art or of literature , by the methodological assumptions of observational analysis . |
| 10 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 11 | However , he omitted to mention that the agreement ( drawn up in secret in 1990 ) has been ratified by only three of the 12 EC countries and is therefore not in force . |
| 12 | The conference being of a very high level , the participants had been limited to just eighteen very distinguished gentlemen and two ladies — a German countess and the formidable Mrs Eleanor Austin , at that time still resident in Berlin ; but each of these might reasonably bring secretaries , valets and interpreters , and there proved no way of ascertaining the precise number of such persons to expect . |
| 13 | Increasingly , poor families are forced to rely upon family credit , which is of course means-tested and to make matters worse , free school meals have been withdrawn from over 500,000 children whose parents are on family credit . |
| 14 | I remembered the dated way he had of addressing people — though he had been sacked for more serious matters . |
| 15 | Eight authors and seven illustrators have been placed on unusually long shortlists for the Carnegie and Greenaway Awards . |
| 16 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |
| 17 | Going back to the scene of the Crucifixion , do you think that you could add something to a scene which has been treated for almost 2000 years ? |
| 18 | Negative control slides comprised normal oesophageal mucosa which had been treated with either avidin-biotin or EGF monoclonal antibody alone . |
| 19 | Although she could not resist adopting a dancer 's grace for the performance , the mocking allusion to the demeaning domestication of women was clear enough , though this theme has been treated with far more wit and poignant effect by other artists ( notably Bobby Baker ) . |
| 20 | High-cost oversupply has been compounded by extremely low demand . |
| 21 | The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting . |
| 22 | Arafat 's stance of " positive neutrality " had been criticized by more militant leaders , who had pressed for military support for Iraq and the opening of a " second front " against Israel in Lebanon or the occupied territories . |
| 23 | A few mono copies of the album with the deleted cuts did make it out of the factory but no stereo version was believed to have been pressed until early this year , when the only known copy was advertised for auction by Strider Records of New York . |
| 24 | The rejection of Young 's theory , which poses problems from the point of view of rival methodologies and which had been explained by easily discredited theories such as an appeal to hero worship of Newton , is shown by Worrall to be in complete accord with Lakatos 's methodology . |
| 25 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 26 | The Congress was told that journalists had been registered in only fifty of ninety guberniia committees . |
| 27 | A reasonable assumption to make on the basis of the instructions given to registrars before 1986 , therefore , is that most of the deaths of children classified as unoccupied will have been registered by economically inactive lone mothers . |
| 28 | The changing distributions between 1970 and 1980 on this index have been calculated for over 100 countries , with some surprising results . |
| 29 | The chances of finding a male tortoiseshell have been calculated at about 200 to 1 . |
| 30 | The rule allowing students only one resit per session has been developed for both academic and logistic reasons . |