Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It has been under test in Germany for a year where it has been used to control a Mercedes test vehicle on the autobahn . |
| 32 | The network has been under trial since July last year and although the switching equipment for the trial was supplied by Alcatel NV , the final order , worth £3m , went to GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd in conjunction with Siemens AG , against bids from AT&T Co , Alcatel and others . |
| 33 | Of course , it is not just audit regulation that has been under scrutiny in 1992 . |
| 34 | Since its ‘ theft ’ my living room has been under siege from Mark ‘ The Scoop ’ Crowe , the Argus sports hack . |
| 35 | Gorazde has been under siege for more than four hundred and fifty days . |
| 36 | A suitable data base format , together with the necessary management procedures , has been under development for a number of years . |
| 37 | Indonesia : Ruslan Widjayasatra , has been under sentence of death for the last 17 years . |
| 38 | Since 1909 the House of Lords has been under attack , and whilst one objection which has been taken has been to the undemocratic nature of the House , that is not the whole story . |
| 39 | She herself has been under attack in several ways already and needs our prayers daily . |
| 40 | Here , he defends the workings of Westminster 's controversial lobby system which has been under attack from several newspapers , including The Independent and The Guardian . |
| 41 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 42 | It 's that in the period April ninety one to September ninety one there has been under recovery of VAT of nearly half a million pounds , will wait until they recover it of which two er twenty six thousand is the true result of the South West Region of twenty six thousand pounds just over twenty one and a half thousand pounds related to job club fees , with all staff responsible for organising rosters even sure they are around the content of appendix one , section four , and that that correctly identified in cages , Margaret Cornwall . |
| 43 | Audit itself has been under review , too , with the publication of The Future Development of Auditing : a Paper to Promote Public Debate , by the Auditing Practices Board ( APB ) . |
| 44 | The university has been under curfew and restraint for months . |
| 45 | A massive scheme for the Hong Shui River in Guanxi province has been under study since the 1950s . |
| 46 | Mr Saatchi has filled the twin role of chairman and chief executive for several years , but Mr Louis-Dreyfus 's appointment is designed to bring in financial skills at a senior level at a time when the company 's business has been under pressure . |
| 47 | Lately Mr Kaifu has been under pressure to hand out minor cabinet posts to some young stars within the party who had been tainted by the Recruit affair . |
| 48 | Spain in particular , with its relatively large , shambling army ( a relic from the Franco era ) cut off behind the Pyrenees , has been under pressure from NATO to put more money into its air force and navy . |
| 49 | Bowlby has been under pressure ever since the Cheltenham Gold Cup , over his riding tactics on Golden Freeze , coincidentally brought down at The Chair in Thursday 's John Hughes Memorial Chase here . |
| 50 | Breedt has been under pressure in his position but the Springbok selectors have learned from the many selection mistakes made by Pierre Berbizier with France this season . |
| 51 | The Department of Energy has been under pressure to expand its efforts on renewable energy after a report by departmental advisers concluded that Britain could generate half its electricity from natural sources within 20 years , a point also made by several environmental groups . |
| 52 | Finnegan has been under investigation after detectives were called in by creditors of North of England Investments who lost money in the company which collapsed last year . |
| 53 | It 's one of those things that we think lies dormant , and can flare up if the patient has been under strain or run down . |
| 54 | A parallel process of postmodernization has taken place in the realm of theory , in which the autonomization ( whether relative or absolute ) of structures and of theory itself has been under challenge . |
| 55 | The matter has been under negotiation , off and on , for several years now , as I remember from my time at the Home Office . |
| 56 | An interim restraining order was placed on him and has been under appeal . |
| 57 | The seven laureates hope to focus world attention on the plight of Ms Suu Kyi , who has been under house arrest in Burma since 1989 , and 1,500 other political prisoners of the junta . |
| 58 | The seven laureates hope to focus world attention on the plight of Ms Suu Kyi , who has been under house arrest in Burma since 1989 , and 1,500 other political prisoners of the junta . |
| 59 | The only difference of opinion so far has been over boxing . |
| 60 | The investigation will explore : ways of asking about sensitive issues ; the prevalence of a number of forms of sexual abuse ( for example , incest , rape , involvement in pornography ) ; whether the abuse was reported to anyone ; what coping strategies were used at a time ; and what the impact has been over time . |