Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] several [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the alleged places of detention , ’ Mr Ahtisaari said , ‘ the facilities were found to have been stripped of all valuable material and not to have been inhabited for several weeks at least . ’ |
| 2 | • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions . |
| 3 | The reasons have been explained in several letters to your MP or Regional Councillor on 31 March 1992 , 14 April , 6 May , 4 June and 27 August , all of which I understand have been passed to you , and directly over the phone by Mr Carter on 6 August 1992 . |
| 4 | Ritual has been regarded by several anthropologists as a social event in which pent-up emotions can find some form of release . |
| 5 | The current bases agreement , which had been revised on several occasions since its original signature in March 1947 , allowed the USA to use several military installations , including the huge facilities at Clark Field and Subic Bay , respectively the largest US Air Force and naval base outside North America . |
| 6 | Despite these criteria , patients with biliary tract calculi have been included in several studies of primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 7 | Cropmarks and pottery scatters of the prehistoric and Romano-British settlements contemporary with these early land divisions have been located at several points within the later village complex at Wharram Percy : each appears to represent a farmstead site . |
| 8 | Recently this problem has been attacked by several companies including DataEase International with its DataEase Express for Windows package . |
| 9 | Familial occurrence of chronic inflammatory bowel disease has been reported in several studies during the past decades . |
| 10 | Diseases similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy have recently been reported in several species of domestic and zoo animals . |
| 11 | This ratio has been reported in several series of patients with malignant disease taking continuing oral doses of slow release morphine and having satisfactory levels of analgesia : in one series of 40 patients the mean plasma ratio was 5:1 and in another of 151 patients it was 4.5:1 ; in another 40 patients the ratio in the cerebrospinal fluid was 6:1 . |
| 12 | From the early nineteenth century Japan had been approached on several occasions by Western nations active in Asian waters and anxious to initiate trading and other contacts . |
| 13 | On the building maintenance side , it has been looked at several times in the past . |
| 14 | That the court can take such an initiative is well settled and indeed it has been done on several occasions in the past . |
| 15 | To date , some work has been done in several areas including planning and learning and induction . |
| 16 | Recent criticisms have been made of several aspects of this approach . |
| 17 | You will soon discover that a bewildering variety of history books have been written over several decades on the modern period alone . |
| 18 | The play has already been written over several months by an enthusiastic team from all the churches involved ; and by the time of going to press casting will already have taken place and all performing groups : the singers , dancers and actors , will be involved in their own regular rehearsals in March . |
| 19 | He had been seen on several levels of the North Star site . |
| 20 | Before starting school he had attended the child development centre , received speech therapy and since had been seen on several occasions by the educational psychologist . |
| 21 | She had a skullcracker of a headache , and guessed she 'd been opened in several places by knifecuts , branded in others by dollops of fire . |
| 22 | Preparations to send Kirgiz peacekeeping troops , which had been elaborated following several visits by Kirgiz Vice-President Feliks Akulov to Dushanbe and the conflict regions , were cancelled by a vote in the Kirgiz Supreme Soviet in Bishkek on Oct. 14 , due to fears for the safety of Kirgiz servicemen . |
| 23 | It is not a colour-marking breed , but has been exported to several countries in Europe , North America and Australasia . |
| 24 | Baryte has been produced in several areas of Britain . |
| 25 | Forces from these garrisons have been used on several occasions against recalcitrant East European governments , though with the one exception of the limited uprising in the GDR in 1953 , they have always been extensively reinforced from the Western Military Districts of the USSR . |
| 26 | These are now due to occur in 1991 , having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years . |
| 27 | Both factors have been shown by several groups to be associated with changes in biliary bile acid composition . |
| 28 | It is not always easy to separate hardware and software and this fact has been demonstrated on several occasions in the courts . |
| 29 | Thank you Chairman , I appreciate that erm prudence is n't flavour of the month in the current majority at this County Council and that indeed has been proved by several speeches from the opposition parties that were made this morning |
| 30 | Lenses of Pb-Zn sulphides with up to 10 per cent Pb +&plus Zn have been found at several localities in the Dalradian , and other areas of barium-enriched sediments also occur ( Coats and others , 1984a ) . |