Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] several [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it had been joined by several cars and a coach was disgorging a gaggle of tourists . |
| 2 | These tortoise holes are often so long — up to forty feet — that judging from the tortoise 's slow rate of excavation they must have been made by several generations and are probably several centuries old . |
| 3 | He has been bailed on several sureties and appears in court tomorrow . ’ |
| 4 | It has now been shown by several laboratories that ingestion of fibre causes an increase in cellular proliferation in the colon of rats . |
| 5 | The museum had been closed for several months because of a leaking roof . |
| 6 | This clearance was important because I did intend to ask one or two questions about a matter which had already been aired in several books and articles , her love affair with H. G. Wells and the child of that union , the writer Anthony West . |
| 7 | It has been proposed by several workers that trench nephritis was caused by hantavirus , although the classic descriptions from the First World War do not tally closely with the variants of hantavirus infection that have been described in the past 40 years . |
| 8 | Monopoly rights have been removed from several professions but most notably from opticians and solicitors . |
| 9 | It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) . |
| 10 | She had been guaranteed by several people and entered Michael Hall School . |
| 11 | Elections to the National Assembly , a body which had been suspended on several occasions since independence , were held in July 1979 , September 1984 and September 1989 . |
| 12 | Coronary vasoconstriction has been suggested by several case-reports but full cardiac investigations have seldom been carried out . |