Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [verb] such [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Past contributions had not been calculated to cover such expenditure , but societies felt an obligation to protect faithful members from ending their days on poor relief .
2 WML has been designed to strengthen such commitment .
3 Attempts have been made to represent such knowledge using a structure known as a script [ Schank & abelson , 1977 ] .
4 Strenuous efforts have been made to program such recognition abilities into microcomputers and several packages for manipulating and comparing spectra are available .
5 Attempts have been made to assimilate such meanings to various pragmatic concepts , for example pragmatic presupposition ( Keenan , 1971 ) , or , as we shall find in the next Chapter , conventional implicature .
6 Laws have been made to check such deceits , but sometimes remedies have been honestly although misguidedly trusted until experience gradually showed their worthlessness .
7 The Court 's competence has been accepted to cover such matters as , for instance , Sunday trading , working hours , the equality of the sexes and whether or not a road should be built through the English countryside at Twyford Down in Hampshire .
8 Recently however the outcomes considered valid indicators of health have been broadened to include such quality of life measures as emotional health , social interaction , functional status , degree of disability and so on .
9 No evidence has been produced to substantiate such allegations .
10 Mystics are certain that for brief periods they have been enabled to experience such perception and know themselves to be part of a meaningful whole — one with the way things ultimately are .
11 Yet even in the screwed-up mayhem that passes for Yankie suburbia , Michael and Karen Carr ( Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe ) have been raised to trust such people .
12 Although almost all of them enjoyed supervising house officers , they admitted that there was little formal teaching ( as opposed to learning by apprenticeship ) and that they had not been trained to provide such teaching .
13 Were such matter to find its way into the domestic blue-film market , the Board argued , it could have a very real tendency to deprave and corrupt , not just those of 16 , but of any age , who had been encouraged to view such material in private .
14 The provision is so cumbersome it is rarely used ( see p73 ) , and in any event it can be availed of only where " all reasonable care " had been taken to avoid such misunderstandings .
15 ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached .
16 In Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190 , Lord Diplock said : ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached . ’
17 Of course , if you were a Vogue reader with a purse to match , you would have been urged to visit such places in the 1970s , but where the rich ( or adventurous ) manage to travel independently , the package holiday-maker reaches a decade later and , just as Thomas Cook had envisaged , the inclusive tour enables more people to travel to far-flung destinations .
18 This royalty shall not exceed the amount that would have been paid had such copies been printed and sold by the Publisher and which is set out in Clause I of this Schedule
19 This royalty shall not exceed the amount that would have been paid had such copies been printed and sold by the Publisher and which is set out in Clause 1 of this Schedule .
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