Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | These disciplines have been joined by many others from different fields , from Law to Business Studies , to Social Administration , to Gender Studies , to Forestry , Religious Studies and Natural Resources . |
| 32 | The variation in size would have been enormous as the existing parish councils would have been joined by such cities as Sheffield as ‘ local councils ’ . |
| 33 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 34 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 35 | Though it used to be thought that internationalism was the preserve of the large , private corporation , today they have been joined by small firms and many state enterprises . |
| 36 | Meanwhile the range has been joined by seasonable designs from Miss Asher , including Santa in a chimney , a snowman and a Christmas pudding . |
| 37 | Turner , 41 , who returned to the club as manager almost two years ago , has been joined by local businessmen Alf Hand and Shaun Riley to buy out Oxford-based chairman and owner John Devaney . |
| 38 | Many of these pioneer voluntary bodies still exist , and they have been joined by large numbers of organizations that have arisen in recent years to tackle the needs of particular groups among the disabled , so that voluntary effort continues to play a major part in meeting the needs of the handicapped . |
| 39 | Now it had been joined by several cars and a coach was disgorging a gaggle of tourists . |
| 40 | The plenum had been delayed for several months , allegedly because of divisions over economic policy between the central and provincial authorities . |
| 41 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 42 | Since the rate of repayment is reviewed only once annually , quite often the effect of mortgage rate rises has been delayed for some months , allowing the borrower to prepare for the increased cost . |
| 43 | The plutonium-powered scientific space probe Galileo , whose launch had been delayed by 11 days due to a combination of technical faults and attempts by anti-nuclear activists to gain a court injunction to ground it , was launched on Oct. 17 , 1989 , aboard the space shuttle Atlantis . |
| 44 | Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 45 | An official announcement was expected at the end of the week , following a final meeting at Pirelli 's Milan headquarters , but it has been delayed by contractual difficulties with some of the company 's existing Italian agencies . |
| 46 | They were deposited under glaciomarine conditions and show the effects of bioturbation : a large Planolites ( P ) trace has been reburrowed by later Chondrites ( C ) . |
| 47 | Croll managed the day to day administration of the office until he retired in 1881 by which time he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and had been honoured by learned bodies at home and abroad . |
| 48 | 1.21 The plaintiff 's rights in relation to medical examinations by the defendant 's doctor have been redefined in two cases . |
| 49 | Over centuries gypsies have been persecuted in varying degrees ; but now they are as much the victims of general trends and events taking place without regard to or for them . |
| 50 | Vanguard ( October 1987 ) complained of ‘ a corrupt and Zionist dominated media ’ , thereby repeating the conspiracy theorists ' argument against ordinary people who have been blinded by Jewish opinion-makers . |
| 51 | Two variables have been mooted as possible determinants of success in making plural reference . |
| 52 | A similar proposal to reduce forces in the Asia-Pacific region had been mooted by Soviet officials in November . |
| 53 | A two-day visit to Port-au-Prince by the special mission of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) on Dec. 6-7 had been intended to further negotiations deadlocked the previous month in the Colombian city of Cartagena [ see p. 38569 ] . |
| 54 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 55 | We lesser mortals who had been banished to such places as Wolverton were , however , less fortunate . |
| 56 | Sometimes this research was located in areas where the effects of human activity had been sustained for many centuries . |
| 57 | By using the resources of the local retailers to identify their potential customers over 85,000 colour pamphlets have been posted to individual homes . |
| 58 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 59 | A half-mile south of the bridge the first French staff officers were rifling the mail in Charleroi 's post office in search of letters which might have been posted by Allied officers and thus provide clues of British or Prussian plans . |
| 60 | Similar complaints have been heard from similar complainants . |