Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the referendum had not been intended as legally binding by the government , on the strength of the result the Supreme Council on Feb. 11 adopted a constitutional law proclaiming Lithuania " an independent democratic republic " . |
| 2 | Although this creature has not been reported as actually killing any people , its appearance is a frightening one with eyewitnesses testifying to its huge head and swelling shoulders , and the fearsome groans it emits . |
| 3 | Although this was an extreme case , it is by no means unique and practically every university teacher who has supervised an undergraduate dissertation will recognize the problem of trying to write a dissertation backwards ; that is to say , taking the data that have already been collected and then trying to find some hypothesis which they can be used to test . |
| 4 | One programmer spent a week trying to find out what damage had been done and then putting it right . ’ |
| 5 | However , as discussed in the introduction , one could also predict that in a recognition test situations inconsistent with the schema might be remembered best since schema-inconsistent information would be more likely to have been noticed when initially viewing the stimuli . |
| 6 | The list of changes in modern capitalism which have been seen as fundamentally questioning the original Marxist theory are too numerous to mention in detail , so we will confine ourselves to the major changes which have fuelled debate amongst Marxists . |
| 7 | The Bernicians may have reached the Firth of Forth under Oswald , for in 638 the Irish annals record the siege of Eten ( AU s.a. 637 : AT p.184 : CA p.144 ) , which is to be identified with Edinburgh in the territory of the Votadini , and the siege has been interpreted as probably marking the capture of this important British stronghold by the northern Angles . |
| 8 | For example , in the case of developing and marketing a new product , however well the market has been researched and however convincing the volume figures may appear , some inducements inevitably have to be offered to customers in order to encourage them to switch their expenditure from other products . |
| 9 | A man has been arrested after allegedly threatening neighbours with a twelve inch butchers knife . |
| 10 | Both men have been identified as broadly supporting the repatriation policy and Mr Hurd , who again appealed for voluntary agencies , including the United Nations , to end their boycott of the monitoring process , may be willing to expand the delegation . |
| 11 | Although most children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds have not been identified as low achieving , there is still a high correlation between social-class membership and educational achievement , with middle-class children distancing themselves increasingly in educational achievements and perhaps also socially from children from working-class backgrounds — another form of segregation within what purports to be the mainstream . |
| 12 | The OPCS surveys , on whose findings the benefit reforms were premised , have been criticised as significantly underestimating the extra costs of disability . |
| 13 | To resist an arrest might also involve an obstruction and an assault , although it has been held that merely pulling away from another is not an assault for the purposes of the offence of assault with intent to resist an arrest . |