Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where murmurs have been heard is in the area of bouncer-restriction . |
| 2 | If the soil that has been excavated is in poor physical condition , discard it and backfill with sand or pea gravel . |
| 3 | Another area in which new technology has been developed is in the manufacture of dyestuffs used in the coatings of carbonless papers ( the Ciba-Geigy Pergascript range of colour formers ) . |
| 4 | ‘ The only figure we have been given is of £28,000 which was spent on the cleaning of the graffiti . ’ |
| 5 | It is nowhere stated that the ground which had been occupied was to be abandoned , but that was the result . |
| 6 | Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 7 | Its report refers to the ‘ few minutes ’ in which broadcasters can consider whether what has been said is on the wrong side of the law . |
| 8 | However , such progress as has been made is in areas that are well defined in advance — which , by definition is not usually the case in the are a of strategic decision making . |
| 9 | So much of what has been written is of the doom and gloom variety . |
| 10 | Few of the learned tomes that have been written are for the domestic consumer and contain few , if any , recipes to lighten the technical detail . |
| 11 | The last time he 'd been seen was in a fight outside a pub in Carshalton , just ten miles from where the body was found . |
| 12 | The last time he 'd been seen was in a fight outside a pub in Carshalton , ten miles from where the body was found . |
| 13 | There were ornaments worth many guineas and pictures , however weird they seemed to her , which she had been told were of great artistic merit . |
| 14 | Here lay Mount Edgcombe House , which the Spanish Admiral , the Duke of Medina-Sidonia , had been promised was to be his . |
| 15 | A second distinction that has been drawn is between analytic and holistic modes of processing ( see Bever , 1975 ) , sometimes referred to as analytic versus gestalt processing . |
| 16 | The only way in which it could have been avoided was for de Gaulle to change his style of leadership . |
| 17 | ‘ an accused man having been cautioned is under no obligation to say anything . |
| 18 | The fundamental relationship upon which the economic , social , and political structure of the Empire had been based was to be dismantled . |
| 19 | Our results imply that the effects of vitamin A supplementation on the immune response to infection after the epithelial barrier has been breached are of greater functional significance than the effects on the integrity of the epithelial barrier itself . |
| 20 | Unfortunately the opening was dogged by controversy , because the track in which the route had been laid was of a type having a 1¼″ groove instead of the normal 1″ groove . |
| 21 | One area where the importance of process measurements had always been appreciated was in limestone areas and these were the focus of many of the earliest , and simplest process techniques developments . |
| 22 | Lt.-Col. Sekhobe Letsie , who had also been arrested was on March 21 formally charged with the murder of two former government ministers and their wives in 1986 [ see p. 34789 ] . |
| 23 | The principal way in which the behaviour has been elucidated is by numerical solutions of the equations ; one starts with some initial condition for ( X , Y , Z ) and integrates forward in t . |
| 24 | Only answers to what has been asked are of any value . |
| 25 | The principal way in which the agricultural production of the crofts has been increased is through the improvement of pasture by fencing , planting shelter-belts , liming ( usually with shell sand ) , fertilizing and surface seeding . |
| 26 | One case where the inductive signals may have been identified is in early amphibian development . |
| 27 | But this is likely to be the first and last time Witney sees the Hungarian State Circus … in February , the town council , banned circus with animals from using its land … and Witney Town Council where the big top 's been pitched is to be redevloped … leaving no large town centre site . |
| 28 | One of the main ways in which the integration of information presented in successive sentences of a discourse has been investigated is by looking at memory for discourse . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) A licence in which such a condition has been inserted is in this Act referred to as a six-day licence . |
| 30 | Inspector Brian Jaggs , of Braintree police , said yesterday that according to the alarm company the only way the £8,000 car could have been taken was to be physically removed by trailer , and it was likely it was stolen to order . |