Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [vb pp] [prep] several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been bailed on several sureties and appears in court tomorrow . ’ |
| 2 | However their interpretation has been criticized on several counts which show that ‘ the family-firm analogy is misleading and generally overworked ; its character is usually symbolic or ideological rather than descriptive ’ ( Fruin 1980 p.432 ) . |
| 3 | It is a stance which has been nurtured by several things , family bereavement and an intelligent , contemplative nature amongst them , but was perhaps most impelled by the experience of coaching in Bangladesh in the winter of 1989–90 . |
| 4 | This flexible approach to arranging help for childcare has been adopted by several companies . |
| 5 | Alluvial gold has been recorded in several streams in an area of Dalradian metasediments to the south of Loch Tay and from small base metal workings in the vicinity ( Heddle , 1901 ) . |
| 6 | That the court can take such an initiative is well settled and indeed it has been done on several occasions in the past . |
| 7 | To date , some work has been done in several areas including planning and learning and induction . |
| 8 | This system has been implemented on several super-computers , since it provides scope for instruction overlapping ( described in 8.2 ) . |
| 9 | This process is known as EUTROPHICATION and has been observed in several places in the UK in the past . |
| 10 | It is not always easy to separate hardware and software and this fact has been demonstrated on several occasions in the courts . |
| 11 | Road pricing , which involves charging drivers directly for their use of the road network , has been advocated for several years as a means of reducing congestion and environmental impact . |
| 12 | We now shall take up an issue that has been touched on several times before : power transformation of the scale of a variable in order to make its analysis easier . |
| 13 | The subject of intergroup competition has been studied by several researchers , and in general the following conclusions have been reached : |
| 14 | Inadequacy of services for young physically disabled adults has been emphasised in several reports . |
| 15 | The significance of the new appointments and structures has been emphasised by several commentators , especially those with a general management perspective . |
| 16 | The increasing control of TDC by the Texas courts has been referred to several times already . |
| 17 | He was accused of passing on ‘ state secrets ’ to the Agence France Presse reporter Lawrence Macdonald , whose account of the student protests has been referred to several occasions . |
| 18 | Marketing has been defined in several ways — as an exchange activity , as a management activity , and as an attitude of mind . |
| 19 | Mr Gresty , whose business has been broken into several times , said : ‘ I am extremely grateful to the Army for getting me out of a very sticky situation . ’ |
| 20 | The ‘ flocculus hypothesis ’ is that a small area of the cerebellum , the flocculus , adaptively controls VOR by regulating signal flow from labyrinths to the flocculus to the relay cells of VOR , and has been challenged on several grounds . |
| 21 | There is very little scope for the exercise of skills by *e workforce , and the flowline layout has been challenged in several quarters . |
| 22 | The functionalist view of the family as a haven of consensus and fulfilment has been challenged from several directions . |
| 23 | It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) . |
| 24 | Ritual has been regarded by several anthropologists as a social event in which pent-up emotions can find some form of release . |
| 25 | Since we included a short article on this topic in the ‘ Newsheet ’ last year , the lid has been blown off several skeletons in the National closet . |
| 26 | This hypothesis has been examined in several studies looking at the PiZ phenotype and periportal α 1 AT granules in patients and controls , and no evidence to support involvement of α 1 AT in genetic predisposition has been found . |
| 27 | It has been excavated at several points , both during the early excavations and in connection with the west gate , revealing informative sequences of relevance to our understanding of the site 's development ( see p. 73 below ) . |
| 28 | Thus , where a lease has been assigned on several occasions a series , or chain , of indemnities will be built up . |
| 29 | However , as has been noted by several writers ( e.g. , Ballentine and Eris , 1975 ) , it is not legitimate to apply formulae derived for infinitesimal changes from a no-tax , no-distortion position . |
| 30 | On the building maintenance side , it has been looked at several times in the past . |