Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magritte 's career has not been examined in such detail in Britain since Sylvester curated a smaller and more exclusive exhibition for the Tate Gallery in 1969 . |
| 2 | Interest in the subject having thus been aroused among learned men in western Asia , a scientific institute was eventually set up in Baghdad after the Muslim conquest of much of that region . |
| 3 | The sentence of Poindexter 's former subordinate , Oliver North , had been overturned for similar reasons in July 1990 [ see p. 37605 ] , but the appellate panel now went further by refusing to allow Walsh to return to the trial judge and attempt to show that the trial testimony was not tainted , as had been permitted in North 's case . |
| 4 | Forty per cent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years . |
| 5 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 6 | A similar proposal to reduce forces in the Asia-Pacific region had been mooted by Soviet officials in November . |
| 7 | If sophisticated strategies such as nominalization have not so far been recognized as viable options in resolving the tension between syntax and communicative function , this does not imply that they are not viable — just that they have been largely overlooked . |
| 8 | Such information is of greater intelligence importance than the photographs of IRA suspects , usually given the lowest levels of security classification , which have been leaked to various newspapers in recent weeks , triggering a political row and a big police investigation . |
| 9 | Others think that the obligation is based on the sort of reasons that philosophers have adduced in support of an obligation to obey , which have been refuted by various writers in recent years , and will be briefly considered below . |
| 10 | Older embryos and more extended cultures benefit from a rotating system and , judging from the experience with rat embryos , the same is probably true for primitive streak stage embryos , although no direct comparison between static and rotating culture systems has been undertaken at this stage in the mouse . |
| 11 | By the turn of the present century , the canal — owned then by the Great Western Railway — had become unnavigable , and the locks fell into dereliction , but much restoration work has been undertaken by enthusiastic volunteers in recent years . |
| 12 | A flight from positivism has been witnessed in recent years in the social sciences , and the argument appears to be now widely accepted that since knowledge is never the direct product of experience . |
| 13 | This pattern has not been altered by recent changes in village life . |
| 14 | He had been treated for nine months in one hospital and two months in another , and had returned home with recurrent dislocation of one knee and an un-united fracture of the other thigh . |
| 15 | This is an important consideration when attempting to interpret palaeoecology from the composition of fossil faunas that are derived from predator activity , and it has been treated in some detail in the appendix , where comparative data for a number of the predator species has been summarized . |
| 16 | • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions . |
| 17 | Extensive Roman civic remains have been excavated in other cities in this area , at Pergamon , Miletos , Side , Sardis and Perge . |
| 18 | The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation . |
| 19 | Ancient customs such as ‘ bundling ’ , intimate but fully clothed and ritualistic forms of petting , cuddling and courtship in bed , which had been policed by local traditions in rural society , continued into industrial society . |
| 20 | In addition , one very broadly-based general SVQ is being introduced at level I. We are also introducing two preliminary awards at a more basic level than level I. All these awards have been accredited for two years in the first instance . |
| 21 | Financial problems have been compounded by lower sales in the Pronuptia-Youngs division . |
| 22 | A meeting has been arranged for 30th September in the Village Hall when a neighbourhood watch will be set up for Belmont Road area . |
| 23 | The five examples outlined above illustrate the proliferation of schemes and courses which have been developed for unemployed people in the 1980s . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , no effective gall bladder plug has been developed despite considerable research in this field . |
| 25 | The drug has been developed By British Biotechnology in Oxford and is undergoing tests on Breast cancer patients in Manchester . |
| 26 | Those authorities show that , in approaching the language of the Act of 1986 , one must pay particular attention to the purposes and policies of its own provisions and be wary of simply carrying over uncritically meanings which had been given to similar words in the earlier Act . |
| 27 | While accepting the need for the United Kingdom to have the protection of a strategic nuclear deterrent for the foreseeable future , may I ask the Secretary of State whether , as a result of his recent conversations with his French counterpart and the agreement reached at Maastricht , consideration has been given to greater co-operation in strategic nuclear matters with France ? |
| 28 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 29 | Millions of pounds have been given by ordinary people in response to appeals for help . |
| 30 | As the minutes of the conclusions of the conference stated : " Various cases have recently been referred to this HQ in which doubt has been raised as to whether certain formations and groups should be treated as Soviet Nationals in so far as their return to the Soviet Union direct from 5 Corps is concerned . " |