Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six . |
| 2 | Lack of breakage , however , only characterizes some of the owl assemblages , but there has been little published on this subject . |
| 3 | The castle had not been properly maintained for many years and after the auction it was allowed to crumble . |
| 4 | I do n't think this point has been properly understood by many people who have been given the impression that the films are a kind of expensive toy , when in fact you are the first conductor in history to use film as an integral extension of your work as an interpretative artist . |
| 5 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 6 | Strike action on the coalfields was the major catalyst for the 1926 General Strike , and the miners have been widely perceived for several decades as at the forefront of trade union militancy in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | Scholarships , Grants and Awards brochures and application forms are now available and have been widely circulated to all Sections and those who have requested them . |
| 8 | Predictive readability formulae such as those of Flesch ( 1948 ) and Dale and Chall ( 1948 ) have been widely used on both sides of the Atlantic for decades . |
| 9 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 10 | Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads . |
| 11 | While conventional theories of ‘ modernization ’ have identified TNCs as carriers of democratic values and practices to the Third World , such views have been powerfully criticized from many quarters . |
| 12 | The breed was initially dual-purpose , whatever its colour , but for the most part ceded its milking role to the neighbouring Ayrshire ; it has continued as a beef breed but has never been intensively developed for that role . |
| 13 | In ordinary parlance one might say that anyone who has been forcibly subjected to this offence has been raped ; the psychological effects are likely to be deep , and even if there is no risk of pregnancy ( as there is not from some rapes , since ejaculation is not part of the definition ) , there may be the risk of disease . |
| 14 | This method has been successfully conducted by many researchers and is now a routine method in our laboratory . |
| 15 | Both the transition from one steady pattern to another and the onset of periodic unsteadiness can be understood as instability of the pre-existing type of convection — and indeed have been successfully analysed from that point of view . |
| 16 | Just such a programme has been successfully undertaken over many years by the Scottish Heatwise programme whose funding has never , alas , matched its innovation and enterprise . |
| 17 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 18 | Geophysical methods have been successfully applied to such mapping in two areas : at Coleorton , Leicestershire , where abandoned near-surface coal workings lie on the line of a new trunk road ; and at Hayle , Cornwall , where shafts of old copper mines were detected at the site of a new water-treatment plant . |
| 19 | The ETC has been successfully established for several years and is very well equipped to provide all travel needs at the most competitive prices . |
| 20 | The outreach approach has now been successfully attempted by many projects and institutions confirming the view of those who insist that educational institutions must be more open and outgoing if they are to provide a worthwhile community education service . |
| 21 | It is a daunting task to compile an adequate list , but it has been successfully attempted in such publications as Crane and Kaye 's Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals , 1620–1800 ( 1927 ) , and the Library Association 's Subject-Index to Periodicals . |
| 22 | The need to work for a living is widely recognized , but the necessity to do so may have often been bitterly resented by many people over the years . |
| 23 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
| 24 | The explosive charge would have been either flat , circular or cylindrical and in any of those cases the disruptive explosive power would have been uniformly distributed in all directions . |
| 25 | The defendants sought to argue that the plaintiff was prevented from claiming breach of warranty since the material fact constituting the breach had been disclosed to the plaintiff at a meeting prior to signing the disclosure letter but had not been eventually contained in that letter . |
| 26 | They 'd obviously been badly infected at some time . |
| 27 | He seized the post of Vizier ( Prime Minister ) and within weeks Muhammed Shah 's ineffectual successor had been effectively excluded from all decisions ; he remained a figurehead , left to console himself with drink , opium and his harem . |
| 28 | She and her brothers had always found the idea of ancestral spirits appearing during the Cia ceremony an awesome prospect , but her sense of unease had been greatly heightened on this occasion by the fear of unknown punishments that seemed certain to follow the incident involving her baby gibbon at the governor 's palace . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , a radical editorial reorganization called the Bradshaw shift , involving the moving of fragment VII as one large block back to the end of fragment II , with these fragments then relabelled groups B2 and B1 respectively , has been eagerly accepted by some editors and critics since the nineteenth century , wishing to solve thereby certain anomalies in the ordering of named places that the pilgrims would pass on their road to Canterbury . |
| 30 | The report , undertaken by independent scientists at the request of the International Atomic Energy Agency and other UN bodies , has been fiercely criticized by some environmentalists and also by officials in the Ukraine and Belorussia — the regions worst affected by the accident . |