Example sentences of "been [vb pp] and [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All objects have been catalogued and vetted by Chinese experts and the results discussed with experts from Brussels , Paris and Hong Kong , the names of whom Mr van Halder would not disclose . |
| 2 | This is an understandable fear and must be met by the provision of cast-iron safeguards , such as they have in Holland where , under the beneficent tutelage of Dr Admiraal , voluntary euthanasia has been legalized and practised with considerable success for several years . |
| 3 | Their birds are eligible for the ‘ Golden Triangle ’ , an assurance that guarantees a turkey has been reared and produced with utmost care by an independent farmer . |
| 4 | Most achondrites are ‘ breccias ’ — rocks that have been crushed and recemented with angular fragments ( clasts ) lying in a finer-grained matrix , Before the Antarctic programme , two of the more common types of achondrites were classified as eucrites and howardites on the basis of the number of source rocks among their clasts and on the magnesium content of their pyroxine minerals ( Mg , Fe , Ca ) 2Si206 , — pyroxenes are the most abundant iron magnesium silicates in igneous rocks . |
| 5 | Written documents could be and were easily forged whereas seals , crosses , medallions etc. were , in the way in which they had been developed and used in pre-Norman Britain , distinctive individual objects , which were less easily forged , more identifiable and more obviously linked to particular individuals . |
| 6 | These treaties have not remained immutable but have been amended and supplemented by other treaties over the course of time . |
| 7 | The chassis has now been checked and passed by British Rail 's Chief Mechanical Inspector Mr. Brian Penny . |
| 8 | At yet another , we will never get there since a stream of tendency has been caught and held in new-visioned ( as opposed to far-sighted ) iconic stasis , and there can be no movement on out of the world we live in into the book we read . |
| 9 | If we were to come across an object the like of which we had never before encountered , we would be in no position to determine whether it was an artefact or not , or to conclude with certainty that it had actually been designed and made by human beings . |
| 10 | Material from the Plantation Registers and other shipping records for the period has been collected and collated under previous projects supported by the ESRC . |
| 11 | A prime example of a class which is , in this sense , non-political is the peasantry in Western Europe , which Marx likened to a ‘ sack of potatoes ’ ; and it is notable that even when peasant revolutionary movements have developed in other parts of the world in the twentieth century , they have almost always been organized and led by urban politicians or urban-based political parties . |
| 12 | The algorithm keeps a second list , called CLOSED , of nodes which have been expanded and removed from OPEN . |
| 13 | To revert to an old style would be to try to set back the clock and deny the progress which had been made and made under divine providence . |
| 14 | Everything about him was meticulous , as though the parts had been made and assembled with scrupulous care . |
| 15 | Literary careers can be founded on the impersonation and adulation of privileged behaviour ; but the literary works which have been written and inspired by English snobs and sports are by no means all boastful or complicit . |
| 16 | It is as if the molecules that form the flowers and leaves have been twisted and re-assembled into lovely globes , the nurseries of these insects . |
| 17 | Some editors decide whether the first set of comments have been met and send for fresh reports only for major revisions , whereas others seem to obtain fresh referees ' reports routinely . |
| 18 | One of its drivers and a guard had been shot and killed by Belgian troops in a firefight . |
| 19 | Many of the originally proletarian elements had been appropriated and reorientated by petit-bourgeois writers and publishers during the previous half-century . |
| 20 | Since subjects learnt at school have been codified and developed through written texts , and written texts are written in Standard English , it follows that children , to have any hope of mastering these subjects , must learn to read and write Standard English . |
| 21 | I can not remember a single one where the risks which gave rise to the accident could not have been measured and prevented with effective safety training , management commitment and — above all - sufficient funds . |
| 22 | The myth of Osiris must have been told and retold to eager audiences over many centuries and in many different ways . |
| 23 | But even at the end of the eighteenth century there were still in Norfolk about eighty thousand acres of unimproved common , and some sixty thousand acres of warrens and sheep walks , most of which had been enclosed and converted to arable fields or woodlands by the middle of the nineteenth . |
| 24 | Meanwhile TEM has sent the shutters to Fulmer Research Institute in B hamshire where they have been cleaned and sprayed with epoxy paint . |
| 25 | On the contrary , some can , and have often been called and regarded as causal laws . |
| 26 | ‘ Lie ’ has since been bootlegged and reissued on various labels and is still available . |
| 27 | This ignorance has been noted and regretted in official reports over the past 40 years , most recently in the Warnock report . |
| 28 | The funds were said to have been laundered and deposited in foreign bank accounts . |
| 29 | Their potential has already been recognised and exploited in other fields — schools will not so much be moving with the times as running to catch up . |
| 30 | The need for stimulation has been recognised and utilised by social controllers at all levels , throughout history . |