Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [coord] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simplest answer to the question about what causes the sleep/wake rhythm to arise is that it is a reflection of the rhythmic world in which the newborn child has been placed and to which it begins to respond . |
| 2 | The major field monuments , which are better documented , almost certainly provided the foci in the landscape , around which such subsistence settlements would have been placed and to which they would have looked for some specialised goods and services . |
| 3 | Though primarily a commentary on Henry II 's government in England , the Policraticus used the terms of Roman law , princeps for ruler and provincia , province , for the area of his rule ; these suggest that John also intended his book to be relevant to France , the land in which he had been educated and to which he was to return as bishop of Chartres . |
| 4 | Pizzorno argues that the modern underdevelopment of the south of Italy can only be understood in terms of the historical relationship of area to the locations of power and productivity by which it has been dominated and to which it has been marginal . |
| 5 | He describes the reformation in faith , secured at baptism and by penance , leaving the soul as if on the very brink of a pit from which it has been rescued but into which it is in imminent danger of falling back . |
| 6 | The Ministry is one for which Mr Toubon has long been prepared and in which he is determined to make a mark , despite the obvious difficulties of taking over from such an active and popular man as Jack Lang . |
| 7 | Much of the Roman landscape is now buried by up to 1 metre ( 1 yard ) of alluvial silt , on to which later settlements have been built and into which have been dug thousands of miles of drainage leats . |
| 8 | At any one moment the positioning of the folds of the vocal tract is determined not only by what has just been said but by what is about to be said ( Springer , 1979 ) . |
| 9 | A large roadside car park has been made and from it a track has been worn to the saddle on the ridge ; the steep climb has been helped by this path formed since my first visit . |
| 10 | I do not know whether I have the best answer to that , but I remind them that the Bill relates only to those utilities that have been privatised and to which a policy of independent regulators applies . |
| 11 | Incidentally , it enables the Census Dissemination Unit to monitor use of the data easily , both by counting the number of users currently registered and by using the project accounting package VMACCOUNT to find out the amount of CPU time which has been used and by whom . |
| 12 | This was , she knew , thinking back to what the astrologer had said all that time ago in London , the blaze that had been ignited and over which she had no control . |
| 13 | Apart from anything else , the dethronement of Sophocles — and Plato — in favour of Aeschylus represented a challenge to the ideals on which German Hellenism had been founded and to which academic circles in general still generally adhered . |
| 14 | The cultural framework in which we have been raised and within which we have been taught to operate provides both security and significance within its frontiers . |
| 15 | Having accomplished this , she had managed to consign the memory of her unnamed son to a Wednesday ( the day on which he had been born and on which he had been slaughtered ) in August , annually , on Møn . |
| 16 | Plate CCXXI of the Figures of Plants shows two roses : the variegated Damask , or York and Lancaster , had long been known and to his descriptive account of this Miller added a note on Mrs Hart 's Rose , probably a sport , with its more distinctly striped petals than the other 's rather blotched red and white ones . |
| 17 | As my own thank-offering I would like to try briefly to express some thoughts on education by which I have long been troubled and to which no place , for reasons which I will show , could be more appropriate than this . |
| 18 | There are varying estimates of the amount of the world 's tropical forests that have already been removed and at what rate deforestation is proceeding . |
| 19 | The deep beam that once ran across the deckhead in line with the forward edge of the chart table has been removed and with it the possibility of scalping tall members of the crew every time they made their way forward through the saloon . |
| 20 | On the other hand , Britain was the home of Shakespeare , clear thinking and political liberty , the land where Voltaire had been welcomed and to which Zola would flee . |
| 21 | As noted in pp 30–31 , the life of this committee is not easy to chart for a number of reasons , and this has made it difficult to determine precisely what has been achieved and to what extent this is attributable to the project . |
| 22 | It is important to study the areas in which women have been neglected or in which their treatment has been biased , but one should not make a fetish about the quasi-religious , unique properties of women . |
| 23 | the number of module names which have been reserved but for which modules do not yet exist in the database . |
| 24 | Despite its limitations , the project has done something to open up the question of study skills , develop inservice structures and practices , create a core of schools where good practice has been established and from which it might be disseminated , and has clearly improved secondary school library provision through ( amongst other things ) the quality of book selection . |
| 25 | The results of both the wool and worsted dispute and the coal dispute convinced some that the tide of wage reductions had been changed and with it , perhaps , the course of unemployment . |