Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital .
2 Earlier forecasts , suggesting that the world 's population would stabilize at about 10,200 million by 2085 , had been revised upwards with some experts predicting that that total could be reached as early as 2060 .
3 Despite continued inflation such small increases in remuneration have been conceded only after many years of negotiation .
4 Life has been made easier through these years of work by the excellence and space of my study .
5 It is worth taking a brief look at McLuhan himself ( 1962 ; 1964 ; 1967 ) , partly because his ideas have been adopted explicitly by some writers on popular music but also because in the period of his greatest fame ( the mid- and late 1960s ) some of these ideas sediment Ed themselves into the common assumptions of quite widely , if usually implicitly , held views on culture and technology .
6 I was trying to do , single-handed , what in previous days would have been accomplished only by several women in a family all working together .
7 A UDC would undermine the ability of the elected local councils to implement the 1976 Docklands Strategic Plan , which had been agreed only after many years of discussion and debate ( Leaders of the London Boroughs of Greenwich , Lewisham , Newham , Southwark and Tower Hamlets , 1979 ) .
8 However , the sales have been interpreted differently by many dealers , some of whom believe they presage the beginning of the end of the collection .
9 Video feedback has also been used effectively in these types of training programmes .
10 Self-guided tours have been used successfully in many libraries in the US and their use has now spread to other countries such as Australia and Sweden ( see figure 5 ) .
11 Some have been used informally for many years , subjective assessments such as those made by parents , teachers , and librarians .
12 One of the reasons for the increased moisture content is that churches such as St Servatius have been sealed tight with all cracks and openings filled in .
13 It may seem incredible that they could have been remembered accurately for many decades , but the construction of skaldic verse was complex , and features such as the binding of pairs of lines by allit-eration , and rhyme and consonance within lines , perhaps facilitated the correct transmission of individual words .
14 It is encouraging too that these links have not been restricted only to those centres which themselves offer both SCOTVEC advanced courses and degrees .
15 In brief , inequalities have been reduced slightly in some areas , remained the same in others and even widened in some other areas .
16 This might have resulted from their experience of two courses that had been run successfully during those hours .
17 Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years .
18 For him the Dutch Texel is the original Texel ; it comes from the island of Texel and has been bred there for many generations .
19 The question of arming our cutters has been discussed fully on several occasions and a decision against this step has always been reached .
20 Deciding which to use and where is obviously important , a theme that has been explored before on these pages , but many users seem bewildered by the range of typefaces that are available .
21 It is precisely because black workers have been kept away from these structures that they are now at the forefront of what has become one of the most political dispute in industrial history .
22 Designed for smaller and medium-sized businesses and even for business units of multinational corporations as a corporate planning checklist , the system has been tested successfully by many companies , as well as computer specialists .
23 The new school year saw the opening of a Language Centre , and the Adshead Computer Room , founded by means of a generous bequest from the will of Professor J.G. Adshead , who has been mentioned already in these pages and who had died in August 1979 .
24 Sweden has led the way in banning tin-based coatings , and copper has been banned too in some areas . ’
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