Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , using animal models , prostacyclin applied locally has been shown to inhibit thrombus formation in response to ADP in the hamster cheek pouch microcirculation ( Higgs et al , 1977 ) , and given systemically prostacyclin inhibited thrombus formation induced electrically in rabbit carotid artery ( Ubatuba et al , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | The hut she now lived in had been well built by a woodman more than three years ago . |
| 3 | She broke off , caught unawares having been about to reveal that her sister had told her . |
| 4 | All the information listed overleaf has been supplied by the shoe manufacturers . |
| 5 | Most of the evidence and experience reported here has been derived from the 16% of the world population living in Europe and North America . |
| 6 | ‘ But if you examine the shot range involved there has been no demonstration of exceptional marksmanship . ’ |
| 7 | In the period that I mentioned there have been substantial further job losses in the coal industry and some further job losses in the steel industry . |
| 8 | A third , who seemed prematurely to have been celebrating Sunderland 's success , planted a spontaneous kiss on his cheek . |
| 9 | The Duke of York is thought to be away on naval duties and the Duchess of York , believed not to have been invited , was in Birkenhead touring flats for young people with learning difficulties . |
| 10 | As their mother seemed already to have been in hospital for most of their lives , Alexander and Victoria saw no change and since the family followed the form of their class and delegated the day-to-day care of their children entirely to the nanny , the absence of their mother hardly affected their lives . |
| 11 | Consequently , sociological positivism can be criticized for giving the impression of setting out to demonstrate scientifically the truth of an approach which seemed already to have been assumed in the way the terms were defined . |
| 12 | Most of the food seemed already to have been disseminated , and a safety cut-out had switched off the stasis field when she opened the hatch . |
| 13 | A POLICE officer who grabbed a car thief and hung on as he drove off has been commended for his bravery by Durham chief constable Frank Taylor . |
| 14 | But it soon emerged that a proportion of the women who came forward had been abused as children , ‘ and this was their first chance to talk about it ’ . |
| 15 | A Thai bronze figure of the Walking Buddha , which had been catalogued as dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and estimated at £25,000-£30,000 , turned out to have been made within the last 150 years . |
| 16 | This turned out to have been a wise decision . |
| 17 | They progressed along dark stone corridors , past various pantries and flights of steps , arriving eventually in what later turned out to have been the servants ' hall and was now superficially , and partially , converted for modern living . |
| 18 | It turned out to have been bought by Richter , and as such was at least one good thing that came from his connections with Peron . |
| 19 | Press reports cited evidence of his involvement with the USA , including his use of a US military helicopter to travel from Beirut to Cyprus in 1986 and his involvement in the release of three US hostages , the Rev. Benjamin Weir , freed on Sept. 14 , 1985 , and Lawrence Jenco and David Jacobsen , released on July 26 and Nov. 2 , 1986 , respectively , all of whom turned out to have been traded for arms . |
| 20 | The tiny lady in purple looking after the money , 78 years old and no bigger than twopennorth of copper , was Jess Wilson who turned out to have been a British clay pigeon champion many years ago . |
| 21 | Sinn Fein councillor Vincent Kelly claimed there have been several attempts to pressurise Mr Fox into working for British Intelligence . |
| 22 | Also , a hotel room would remind her of that first night they had spent together ; what happened then had been repeated by now many times . |
| 23 | ‘ Since they arrived there have been thousands of deaths . |
| 24 | A soldier 's wife who stayed on in married quarters after her husband walked out has been asked to pay eight hundred pounds for trespass , the term used by the army when it considers a tenancy has become unlawful . |
| 25 | The Government 's investigation found that a third of the timber harvested nearby had been wasted , burnt on site or left to rot . |
| 26 | Furthermore , we keep hearing about other conferences being planned in Paris and in Hannover , Panofsky 's home town , and then we heard there has been a proposal that the International Congress of the History of Art in Berlin ( 15–20 July ) should have a whole section devoted to Panofsky , ( although there has been some disagreement about this recently ) . |
| 27 | At the resumed inquest at Hereford Town Hall , Health and Safety Executive explosions expert Andrew Cox said the oil tank Michael Grant worked on had been full of highly inflammable oil vapour . |
| 28 | Many of the five hundred people who worked here have been redeployed on other sites in Herefordshire and Wales . |
| 29 | Since we started there have been five escapes for which we accept responsibility . |
| 30 | Since the programme started there has been a steady refusal rate of 5–6% ( fig 1 ) . |