Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [verb] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may then find yourself faced with a real battle if your dog has not been taught to co-operate in this fashion . |
| 2 | You 've just been made to sit in this room for three hours . |
| 3 | This is simply an overspilling of sexual activity under conditions of extreme frustration , and the animals which have been seen to perform in this way have also been observed to copulate normally afterwards , if mates are provided . |
| 4 | It is important to understand that we are breaking a habit , for we have been conditioned to react in this way . |
| 5 | Doctors , magistrates and state officials have been known to assist in such cover ups . |
| 6 | Finally , librarians can collaborate with teachers in the planning of more formal periods of organized research as part of a wider programme of study ; it is here that the librarian can often explain to the teacher the problems which readers have been observed to encounter in such activities , so that the resolution of these can be built into the overall plan . |
| 7 | All the ingredients are natural ones which have been put to use in this way for centuries . |
| 8 | On the other hand , if Lewis had been allowed to live in this way , though we might have had a few more mighty works of literary history from his pen , it is doubtful whether he would have written the works for which he is more popular . |
| 9 | As a state party to the United Nations Convention Against Torture , Egypt is required to ‘ ensure that any individual who alleges he has been subjected to torture in any territory under its jurisdiction has the right to complain to , and to have his case promptly and impartially examined by , its competent authorities … ’ |
| 10 | They both were astonished that so far no indication of trouble had come from the town common ; but reckoned that it would not be long now before it did , for a few escapers from the castle had been glimpsed running in that direction . |