Example sentences of "been [vb pp] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skeleton , that of a woman in her twenties , appears to have been hidden in woodland near Chewton Mendip , Somerset , for years . |
| 2 | The man picked up a small portmanteau that had been hidden in shadow by the rail , and with one last sweeping look across the quay , climbed on to the gangplank . |
| 3 | If your employer fails to renew a fixed-term contract , you are deemed to have been dismissed in law . |
| 4 | In Brown v Rentokil Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 4 , the EAT ruled that an employee who had been dismissed in accordance with sickness absence rules when she was away from work because of pregnancy-related illness , was not discriminated against . |
| 5 | LeWitt 's use of geometrical structures dates to 1963 but this vital aspect of his work has rarely been examined in depth in Britain . |
| 6 | All too frequently , as well , cemeteries have been examined in isolation from other components of the plan . |
| 7 | The relationship between pull-out torque and operating speed has been examined in Chapter 5 and some of the results from that analysis can be applied to the closed-loop control problem . |
| 8 | The commitment to sterling has already been examined in relation to the political economy of Britain 's international role , the vested interests of the City of London and the nature of the system of government . |
| 9 | Since Labov first developed his quantitative methods , a very wide range of different speaker variables has been examined in relation to patterns of variation , and indeed these methods can be used wherever a speaker characteristic is capable of being expressed numerically . |
| 10 | The idea of substitution has been examined in Section 2.4.2 , but the reader is reminded by an example . |
| 11 | In the extreme case , there is no mobility of labour at all ( as in Jones , 1971b ) , and the implications of such immobility for the incidence of the corporation tax have been examined in Section 6–4 , where we saw that implies that the return to capital definitely falls ( relative to p y ) as a result of the tax . |
| 12 | To base a property tax on anything other than capital values would be perverse — even if alternatives like imputed rents and floor-space footage were inherently sensible , which they are not — and ways to compile and update the necessary data have already been examined in detail . |
| 13 | The texts , which are generally agreed to have forged elements in them , have been examined in detail by several scholars , and there are only two preliminary remarks which need to be made . |
| 14 | Marx 's work on class has been examined in detail for the following reasons . |
| 15 | The statistical correlation studies have been many and varied and they have been examined in detail by both Blaug and Bowman and there is no need to repeat the discussion here . |
| 16 | The development of one south London suburb has been examined in detail by Professor H. J. Dyos in his classic work , Victorian Suburb : A Study of the Growth of Camberwell ( 1961 ) . |
| 17 | The North American Cordillera , which has a tectonic history of bewildering complexity , has not been examined in detail in this chapter but various aspects of its evolution are considered by Dickinson ( 1976 ) , Eaton ( 1987 ) and Smith and Eaton ( 1978 ) . |
| 18 | Studies defining the immediate 5' flanking sequences of class II MHC genes and their associated DNA-binding proteins ( 5-10 ) , as well as transgenic mouse models containing DNA constructs covering the promoter proximal sequences have been examined in detail by other groups ( 5,11-13 , ) . |
| 19 | The case against the defendant was indeed a strong one and for that reason their Lordships would not be prepared simply to recommend that an acquittal be ordered , but they do not feel able to say that the jury would inevitably have convicted , if the defence had been furnished in advance with the three statements in question and if the jury had received the accepted direction on evidence as to character and guidance from the trial judge on the problem , whatever it was , indicated when they first returned to court . |
| 20 | The dewar is the largest ever to have been flown in space , although smaller devices operate successfully . |
| 21 | This is a voucher issued by airlines when travellers have been delayed in transit . |
| 22 | ‘ Dublin has long been paralysed in relation to the Unionists , by an implicit veto of John Hume . |
| 23 | God had long been banished in favour of any number of petty little sects , clinging to tattered bits of faith ; they could be tolerated , since they formed no collective alternative to the consumer society on which organized science depended so heavily . |
| 24 | The government had been sustained in office from March 1977 to the autumn of 1978 by an agreement with the Liberals . |
| 25 | I resisted the temptation to analyse the results until all information had been gathered in case I sub-consciously distorted the data-gathering process . |
| 26 | Limited supplies of fruit and vegetables must have been available , while an abundance of natural fruits and nuts could have been gathered in season , for either home consumption or for sale in the local market . |
| 27 | It is only in relatively recent years that two sexes have been recognized in ammonoid species . |
| 28 | Only at the last moment , when he 'd been recognized in turn , did Zen realize that it was Daniele Miletti . |
| 29 | If we take seriously the notion of ‘ unlimited number ’ , there must be , for any lexical form , potential senses which have never been realised in use : equally , every lexical form has at least one relatively well-utilised sense . |
| 30 | Recent history is not very encouraging since previous promises of effective decentralisation ( 1974 , 1982 ) have not been realised in practice . |