Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parallelism between these two rhythms and performance has been commented upon and illustrated before . |
| 2 | This type of stomach has been referred to as having an ‘ acid antrum ’ . |
| 3 | These three conceptions have been subject to various criticisms : that many of the discretionary powers are vested in officials and public bodies , that many officials and bodies have powers and immunities that the ordinary citizen does not have , and that certain rights have been modified by or enacted in statute . |
| 4 | ‘ I had never been interviewed before but felt really at ease , mainly because I discovered I had been an informal link worker all my life ! |
| 5 | All historical financial information provided in the Memorandum has been prepared from and using the same accounting policies as the financial records of the Group . |
| 6 | More generally in geography as a whole Chisholm ( 1967 ) dismissed the approach as formalizing what had been done before and employing ‘ a jargon-ridden statement of the obvious ’ . |
| 7 | They have been built upon and have adapted that which already existed . |
| 8 | Similarly , a woman who submits to sexual intercourse having been threatened with or fearing serious injury or death is not regarded as having consented . |
| 9 | It has been on trial at nine branches and no decision has been made about whether to extend the service . |
| 10 | No decision has been made on whether to renegotiate with EASE , sign up with one of the several other electronic systems now operating , or , like County Auctions , develop its own system . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) The permitted hours for premises in respect of which a public house licence or a refreshment licence is in force shall be the period between eleven in the morning and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between five and eleven in the evening , except for Sundays when the permitted hours shall be the period between half-past twelve and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between half-past six and eleven in the evening but only in the case of premises in respect of which an application for Sunday opening has been made to and granted by a licensing board in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 4 to this Act , which shall have effect . |
| 12 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 13 | Questions of theoretical base or methodological perspective have often been subsumed by or channelled into the construction of acceptable written examinations . |
| 14 | His father had already been attended to and lay quiet and grateful on one of Zeinab 's sofas . |
| 15 | However , it is important that alarm calls have been requested from and agreed with the other person when we are in our right minds . |
| 16 | Some of the children had been talked to and examined , but nothing was found . |
| 17 | A lesser young man would almost certainly have been laughed at and called a big-head , but Michael had already shown us that , in spite of the clowning off set at work , he was a ‘ pro ’ , disciplined as well as talented , and quick as well as anxious to learn . ’ |
| 18 | The Rano Raraku moais are taller than any of the statues which had actually been transported to and erected on ahus . |
| 19 | It would have been thought of as demeaning their authority to have to explain their actions . |
| 20 | I do not think that the conch would have been thought of or used , at least to start , but the girls would have probably got together into one large group as the boys did , although with sub-divisions of especial friends . |
| 21 | Oral sex , although mentioned in literature and depicted in art spanning millennia , has been thought of and described by many people as a perversion of sexual practice . |
| 22 | According to Pryce in 1778 , longer shifts had been experimented with but had been found less productive . |
| 23 | George Oaks had been cared for and had work provided , first by his parents and later , by his elder brother . |
| 24 | This derived largely from fears amongst Latin American ruling groups of a threat to their own positions , concerns which have been played upon and reinforced by Great Britain in the 1920s because of its considerable stake in the Argentine economy , and subsequently by the United States . |
| 25 | The note sets out how the figure has been arrived at and stresses any assumptions that are being made . |
| 26 | In 1563 one Hoppringle had been set upon and murdered in his house by a joint force of Armstrongs and Elliots , which gave rise to a long Border feud . |
| 27 | At seven the news bulletin brought a report of a motorway collision which had claimed the lives of an entire family travelling north for Christmas , and of prison riots that had ignited in Bristol and Manchester , with inmates claiming that presents from loved ones had been tampered with and destroyed by prison officers . |
| 28 | The company was charged with contravention of the terms of the prohibition notice under s 33 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , because no safe system of work had been proposed to or agreed by the HSE . |
| 29 | These were printed on page 6 of The Embalmer , Vol.36 , No 2 and were unanimously adopted having been proposed by and seconded by . |
| 30 | But come 2.30 pm , Keifer 's ’ prior engagement ’ has been dealt with and hear he is — all bleary-eyed , stubbly , subdued and dog tied . |