Example sentences of "[noun] been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tendering process has in a number of cases been used by local authority managers to reassert their right to manage ’ ( 1988 , p. 187 ) . |
| 2 | Alternative explanations of the relationship between human beings and land have of course been raised within Western culture , most notably in the work of Karl Marx ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 3 | He had many times been reduced to helpless rage by Graham 's attitude to his subjects , by his refusal to give science stories the importance Mike believed they had , but at least he was consistent in his attitudes . |
| 4 | On the domestic scene glass has for centuries been worked into fine tableware , chandeliers and ornaments . |
| 5 | The stockmarket has in effect been closed to new equity issues for three years , and banks will lend only to the safest borrowers . |
| 6 | That notion had a long history , and had by no means been deserted by post-classical law . |
| 7 | Never in this century at least had so much respect been paid to mammary development . |
| 8 | Had the whole national debt been funded with one-year Treasury bills between 1965 and 1992 ( which , admittedly , not even the most fervent shorteners now advocate ) , taxpayers would have spent $150 billion more than they did . |
| 9 | This Act still forms the basis of legal immunities in trade disputes , though most of the relevant provisions have in fact been inserted by textual amendment by later legislation . |
| 10 | Legislation has in fact been issued under general treaty powers which expressly states that it is intended to implement the Social Charter , such as Directive 91/533 on contracts of employment , which , since it was made under Article 100 which requires unanimity in the Council , must at the least not have been opposed by the United Kingdom minister . |
| 11 | The allocation to Greater York has in fact been derived by extensive joint working between the County Council and the five Greater York districts . |
| 12 | The overall response of the British state to this twofold crisis has to a large extent been characterized by penological pragmatism : responding to developments and attempting to manage the resources crisis ‘ with no clear or coherent philosophical or other theoretical basis ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 4 ) . |