Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara knew that she had not been intended to understand this remark , and was hurt by it ; but she was determined to show no embarrassment or anger and told herself that Dom João was probably as nervous as herself . |
| 2 | The material which has been gathered supports this contention and it also raises a number of issues concerning the needs of staff , as well as students , at a time when the total quality of the teaching/learning experience is assuming a certain prominence throughout the HE sector . |
| 3 | A computer algorithm , AGECAT , has now been developed to undertake this task ( Copeland et al . |
| 4 | An editorial committee has been formed to continue this project , and it has appointed Dr Malcolm editor of the next volumes in the series : an edition of Leviathan in both its original texts ( English and Latin ) , and what will be the first collected edition of Hobbes ' correspondence . |
| 5 | Esther Breuer might well have been expected to approve this advice , with its implication that depth rather than breadth is of importance , and intimate knowledge of a corner more valuable than a sketchy acquaintance with the globe . |
| 6 | The Canadian Pacific , in both its western and its eastern guises , had been designed to alleviate this dependence , to keep Canadian grain on Canadian metals and shipped through Canadian ports . |
| 7 | Empirical evidence has been presented to highlight this trend . |
| 8 | Are you satisfied that everything could have been done to prevent this man doing this sort of thing . |
| 9 | Women 's inferior economic position must affect their access to the better places , but no work has been done to substantiate this point . |
| 10 | Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom . |
| 11 | A modification has been done to correct this problem and further trials will shortly be carried out with the modified burner and using steam supplied from another locomotive through a flexible steam hose to atomize the fuel . |
| 12 | Such is the volume of material that a new office has been built to house this material at the home of Collectair ! |
| 13 | It has been decided to try this method out for the January meeting , posting out only to teachers not attending . |
| 14 | At the next table , nothing had been said to counter this barrage . |
| 15 | But some forms of enduring relationships have also been said to have this form . |
| 16 | Given a tree not in the base , determining which sequence of transformations may have been applied to generate this tree . |
| 17 | The work of M. Comte is unquestionably the greatest single effort that has been made to obviate this kind of danger . |
| 18 | They are certainly making such preparations as have never been made to invade this island since the Spanish Armada ; but I trust in God and Lord Anson . |
| 19 | ‘ They are certainly making such preparations as have never been made to invade this island since the Spanish Armada ; but I trust in God and Lord Anson . ’ |
| 20 | But , as Roger Lawson of Southampton University has pointed out , more efforts have been made to counter this localism by the Money Advice Association ( founded in 1984 ) and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 21 | An attempt had been made to sell this document to a Sunday newspaper , and Ashdown had secured a " gagging " injunction preventing mention of anything to do with the matter . |
| 22 | Attempts have been made to explain this grading , which is not characteristic of the majority of British spits . |
| 23 | Since 1973 various proposals have been made to achieve this objective , which was finally accomplished by the adoption of the Merger Regulation . |
| 24 | It has been written to influence this report and to inform a wider audience . |
| 25 | The hare flees across a field in this way , and a number of different birds and fish have also been seen to use this technique . |
| 26 | Certainly nothing in the recent history , and very probably nothing in the ancient history , of what were once the prerogative writs , has been seen to match this stream of applications . |
| 27 | Although they had been told to counter this objection with the fact that this was a single instance or two of older machines and new machines could be serviced almost immediately , this did not altogether convince a potential customer and it was felt that many sales had been lost . |
| 28 | This evidence is frequently interpreted as suggesting that larger local authorities are likely to be more efficient than smaller ones , but no statistical evidence has been produced to support this claim . |
| 29 | The language of ‘ conditioning ’ , ‘ brainwashing ’ , ‘ indoctrination ’ , and so forth , has been used to describe this force . |
| 30 | Several methods have been used to detect this response , including agglutination , complement fixation , and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay ( ELISA ) . |