Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This change of diet should not , of course , be attempted by diabetics except under medical supervision , and so far no juvenile diabetics have been treated successfully using this type of diet . |
| 2 | But the welcome which we have been given here exceeds all others . |
| 3 | The group runs workshops where the women watch videos and then hold discussion groups and where they have been taught how to make simple handicrafts . |
| 4 | The huge black doors of the boat-house had been fastened back to allow free access . |
| 5 | The son , apparently , claimed that the partnership had been formed expressly to prevent this happening . |
| 6 | Clements Farm is of great antiquity , the building itself probably dates back to the 15th century , and happily has been boarded up to prevent more deterioration . |
| 7 | The 1976 act had been designed not to diminish existing rights but to expand them . |
| 8 | In half the cases examinations could have been carried out using less radiation . |
| 9 | Repairs to gravestones have been carried out following last year 's vandalism and other petty acts . |
| 10 | The improvement scheme has been carried out to meet new health and safety requirements . |
| 11 | Too few senior church leaders have been prepared publicly to state that sex outside marriage , as well as homosexual practice , are viewed in biblical teaching as outside God 's will and purpose for human good . |
| 12 | Moreover the tendency during the present century has been to create broadly defined criminal offences ( such as theft ) , with a sufficiently generous maximum to cater for the worst contingency . |
| 13 | The department said it had been decided not to invite competing tenders for Norcross because the contract award , worth between £17 million and £20 million over five years , followed so quickly the tendering exercise for Livingston that competition would have been ‘ unlikely to yield any improvement in value for money ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ It also happens in public schools , where new arrivals are considered ordinary weaklings until they 've been pushed out to survive some sort of ordeal so they can re-enter the group with a new identity . ’ |
| 15 | Having heard T W Ltd 's further representations seeking extended hours for their haulage operations , the DLA confirmed that the conditions attaching to the licence renewal had been imposed solely to prevent local residents having their sleep disturbed at unsocial hours . |
| 16 | Indeed when in Opposition amendments had been moved unsuccessfully to give greater effect to reparation during the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill in 1966/7 . |
| 17 | ALMOST half the number of residents at a Kirk old people 's home have been moved out to make more room for offices . |
| 18 | Businessmen have been drafted in to advise civil servants . |
| 19 | The carvers were unlikely to be directly connected with the building of the church or the carpenters employed but would have been commissioned separately to provide these embellishments . |
| 20 | A church organist has been told not to play low notes because it could damage the spire . |
| 21 | And contingency plans has been drawn up to relocate vital NIO departments to nearby government buildings in the event of a devastating bomb attack . |
| 22 | At the other end of the building some very different experiments had been going on involving nuclear physicists who knew of the existence but few of the details of ZETA . |
| 23 | Two such viruses that have been produced recently expressed insect-specific neurotoxin genes from a mite and a scorpion . |
| 24 | These results were taken as supporting a temporal discrimination hypothesis of the same type that has been used elsewhere to describe short term verbal recency effects ( e.g. Bjork & Whitten , 1974 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Merger accounting has sometimes been used artificially to boost reported earnings by including the full year 's profits of a subsidiary acquired late in the year . ’ |
| 26 | ( English is confusing here , for the same term ‘ man ’ has — until recently — been used both to encompass all humans , and specifically to speak of men . ) |
| 27 | Art therapy is applied arbitrarily to Disabled people and has often been used less to benefit Disabled people and more to minimise disruption to the ablebodied world . |
| 28 | This preparation has been shown not to affect epithelial cell proliferation . |
| 29 | I have been shown how to make warm clothes for myself and my children for the winter . |
| 30 | The concentrations of DDT and PCB residues reported in many studies of dolphin and porpoise tissues have been shown experimentally to cause lowered fertility and premature births in both seals and sealions. exposure to PCBs can result in failure of the body 's immune system . |