Example sentences of "[adv] been [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They operate under Royal Charters , appoint their own staff , decide on their own admissions policies and have traditionally had academic freedom in their teaching and research , though the last of these has arguably been eroded in recent years by the ‘ earmarking ’ of government funds for specific subjects , and the need to seek sponsors for particular projects . |
| 2 | Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia . |
| 3 | Besides the straight eurobond , the market has been the location of a number of key product innovations , many of which have since been adopted in domestic markets . |
| 4 | It was a positive answer to an appalling problem that has since been copied in different forms by many other industries . |
| 5 | This view has since been reflected in official commentary during and after the MTFS . |
| 6 | While both of those systems were initially developed in the USA , and have since been used in other countries with varying degrees of success , many of the claims made on their behalf have failed to materialize . |
| 7 | It sounds to a man 's understanding as if women had hitherto been kept in disagreeable subjection to the stronger and sterner sex . |
| 8 | Unfortunately the detailed work on which that revision is itself based has only been published in Soviet journals in Russian , so has not stood the test of scrutiny by Western astronomers . |
| 9 | It is therefore hardly surprising that Persian compositions have not only been reproduced in countless machine-made carpets in the West , but also emulated by most other rug-producing countries in the East . |
| 10 | This represented a change from the noticeably cool US attitude towards Yeltsin in the immediate aftermath of the August coup , which had apparently been prompted in particular by his assumption of control of the armed forces [ see p. 38371 ] . |
| 11 | The national church organization had long been accepted in central Europe : bishops were the crown 's natural advisers , the crown 's civil servants . |
| 12 | The pacta tertiis rule ( which protects non-parties to a treaty from having the treaty imposed upon them ) has long been accepted in international law . |
| 13 | The latter point has of course long been recognised in academic psychology and from the 1950s onwards considerable effort was expended attempting to identify the unique features of creativity . |
| 14 | and ‘ beyond some point that has long been surpassed in crowded industrial societies , conditions of use tend to deteriorate as use becomes more widespread ’ ( pp. 2–3 ) . |
| 15 | It has long been established in American universities ; hence the acute consciousness of period , and the rapidity with which , in the state-of-the-art graduate schools and research establishments , critical approaches have followed one another : New Critical , structuralist , poststructuralist , deconstructionist , feminist , Marxist , New Historicist , dialogic . |
| 16 | Soldiers have long been described in Chinese history as economic leeches and political predators . |
| 17 | A bustling market , dark , smokey houses and a busy wharf have all been re-created in accurate detail so that you can experience in sight , sound and smell exactly what it was like to live and work in the Viking city of Jorvik . |
| 18 | These have all been introduced in previous chapters . |
| 19 | For example , enhanced synthesis of protaglandins , thromboxane A 2 and prostacyclin and leukotriene B4 have all been shown in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases . |
| 20 | Some six hundred hectares of that land is actually designated as greenbelt , but in addition within that a number of those areas are er prevented from development in perpetuity we 'd argue because a large part of that area has got a historic status as stray land , which is a form of common land , which means it 's actually not not available for any form of development , similarly the flood planes of the river Ouse in particular is for physical development reasons er prevented from development in many areas , and those of you who were here this weekend will have no noticed the reason why , it was a flooding that took that took place on the Ouse valley , in addition to those constraints , open space within the city is at a premium erm the city falls below the Emperface standard , erm by er something like erm half a hectare per thousand population , so compared with the Emperface standard of two point four per thousand , the city reaches a quite a generous erm categorization of the recreational space we have available , only a total of two hectares per thousand , therefore , and this is very relevant to the Greater York debate , erm , really the only land for development within the city is recycled land , there are limited number of er sites which have not been developed in recent years erm which can be identified for development , and are being identified for development in our draft local plan . |
| 21 | In a report to Cleveland 's health and safety committee , county safety adviser Peter Prunty admits : ‘ It would appear that the work that was being undertaken by Nacro had not been planned in sufficient detail to cover such occurrences . ’ |
| 22 | Although this theory has not been tested in other forms of autonomic neuropathy , we have assumed that the same holds true in cases where constipation was associated to a degree of autonomic neuropathy . |
| 23 | The Collector felt no confidence at all that her child had not been made in vain . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , these encouraging results have not been substantiated in prospective studies of special forms of treatment , although it is worth noting that no proper , prospective controlled study in which patients have been randomly assigned to either a treatment or a no-treatment group has been carried out . |
| 25 | The secondary technical schools anticipated in 1944 had not been created in significant numbers , and the modern schools were required to fill the gap . |
| 26 | This was a significant discovery in that fusion had not been seen in toroidal discharges before . |
| 27 | It is something which seems such an ordinary thing to do , and yet the effect of it is something which has not been seen in pictorial art since Giotto . |
| 28 | He had not been seen in public since 29 December , an indication that he was in trouble . |
| 29 | The meeting was cancelled and Mr Li has not been seen in public since . |
| 30 | The John Gosden-trained three-year-old has not been seen in public so far this term , but has certainly been sparkling on the Newmarket gallops in preparation for his reappearance . |