Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poindexter 's conviction was quashed in a split two-to-one judgement on the grounds that the recollection of trial witnesses had been tainted by testimony which he had given before Congress under immunity in 1987 . |
| 2 | Langbaurgh 's budget has been limited to £16.5m which will mean a reduction in poll tax bills of £18 a head . |
| 3 | Whereas the company had formerly been limited to films which cost between £150,000 and 200,000 , it could now stretch up to £700,000 . |
| 4 | A similar exercise has been undertaken by Karlsson whose work we shall refer to again because of the interesting comments he has made about his observations from a genetics viewpoint . |
| 5 | The bomb on board the Boeing 747 Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) passenger aircraft flight PA 103 on Dec. 21 , 1988 , which had killed all 259 people on board and 11 people in the village of Lockerbie [ see pp. 36409-10 ] was believed to have been placed in luggage which joined the flight at Frankfurt . |
| 6 | For example , schools can ask Compact companies to provide Work Experience placements and classroom resources which will challenge gender stereotyping with relation to vocational opportunities ; young women have often been placed in engineering or construction companies , while young men have been placed in work which has traditionally been associated with young women . |
| 7 | A different system has been developed for companies whose product is packed in trays or boxes . |
| 8 | A new variety of banana has been developed in Honduras which is more resistant to fungal diseases , reducing the need for spraying with fungicides . |
| 9 | Furthermore , gradation could equally lead to heavier sentences than might otherwise have been given for conduct which comes within the higher categories , although this could be regulated by appeal courts and sentencing guidelines . |
| 10 | An underground water supply serving the city of Peterborough , in eastern England , has been contaminated by pesticides which were dumped at nearby rubbish dumps . |
| 11 | In preparing this report they must carry out such investigations as will enable them to form an opinion on ( a ) whether proper accounting records have been kept by the company and whether proper returns adequate for their audit have been received from branches which they have not visited and ( b ) whether the company 's individual accounts are in agreement with the accounting records and returns . |
| 12 | Multinationals have in the past been checked by laws which require Indians to take majority shareholdings in foreign companies operating in India . |
| 13 | Equally , large European Community ( EC ) grants had been attracted to Portugal which frequently lacked the infrastructure or administrative machinery necessary to absorb them in the most productive manner . |
| 14 | They have been nominated for exhibitions which have been held outside London or abroad . |
| 15 | Angry too that she had not been trusted with knowledge which concerned her so much . |
| 16 | All the Okapi work has been done on systems which have been developed at least to a point where they are reliable and complete enough to be installed in a library unattended . |
| 17 | Much of the work in this area has been done by economists whose approach is based upon the hypothesis that workers will join unions if the expected benefits and returns from the services which unions can provide — in the form of relative wage gains , taking up grievances , access to specialised information and the like — exceed the expected costs . |
| 18 | However , this has been done in ways which least disturb the traditional division of labour between men and women within the family . |
| 19 | If Cramlington had been a designated New Town then all their housing would have been built on land which was designated as housing land before it was sold to them . |
| 20 | Counties Leitrim , Louth and Mayo have been named after towns which nowadays have shrunk to the size of villages . |
| 21 | Since the main Which ? magazine appeared more than 35 years ago a whole new breed of special interest publications have been spawned including Holiday Which ? , |
| 22 | The national broadcasting organisations have been threatened by deregulation which has encouraged the growth of private satellite and cable channels . |
| 23 | However , despite my aim to provide flexibility in structure , the HyperCard still imposes a primary organizational structure and it may be difficult to extract information that has no relation to the original structure imposed by the author Nevertheless , some links have been made between tutorials which cut across the primary categorization and users are able to move between different sections as easily as moving within sections . |
| 24 | Despite a very depressed North Sea market the disposals have been made at prices which compare favourably with those achieved for recent industry sales . |
| 25 | Provision is made for business reorganisation costs when a decision has been made in principle which will result in such liability being incurred . |
| 26 | He noted that most progress had been made by firms which were the most highly geared at the onset of recession . |
| 27 | Financial support has been secured from organisations which choose to be associated with programmes which feature teacher placements . |
| 28 | A Study Skills Handbook ‘ has been written for students whose mother tongue is not English , yet who , for one reason or another are completing a course of study where English is the only language of instruction . ’ |
| 29 | Until then these infections had only really been seen in people whose natural defences had been damaged by cancer or by drugs which suppress the immune system . |
| 30 | Often the " essence " has been seen in terms which wider study of religions has shown to be too narrow or too idiosyncratic or in ways which undermine the significance of the external forms of religious traditions . |