Example sentences of "[noun] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The immediate counterattack is simple : Has the building been offered for sale on the open market ? |
| 2 | The usual test applies : Has the freehold building been offered for sale on the open market ? |
| 3 | Recent work by several anthropologists has stressed , by contrast , the State 's previously over-looked role as an exploitative mechanism , and this work has in most cases been influenced by Marxism [ e.g. Terray , 1977 ; Bloch 1977 ] . |
| 4 | ‘ … have such research activities been restricted by lack of funds ? |
| 5 | When , she wondered , for how long , had Hereward Marr been connected with St Sylvester 's ? |
| 6 | Why had ideology been tempered with pragmatism ? |
| 7 | A number of teachers have of course been exposed to discovery methods , the principles of new maths and new science ; there is , however , a strong countervailing trend in which pupils know from their CPE texts what are the answers , the definitions of the scientific laws , and increasingly regard as a waste of time proving by rudimentary experiments what they already know . |
| 8 | This had in part been justified by cost conditions — a larger domestic consumer was cheaper per kWh to supply than a small one — though in the conditions of shortage which prevailed it was arguably foolish to maintain such a strong incentive to increased usage . |
| 9 | Few wanted to see the repeal of the Test Acts , which required that all office holders take the sacrament in accordance with the rites of the Church of England , since these measures had in part been designed against Catholics ( an important consideration when many Whigs still feared the possibility of a Stuart restoration ) . |
| 10 | The vehicle barrier at Slaughden which has several times been breached by owners of four-wheel drive trucks |
| 11 | Title to the property is and has at all material times been registered at H.M. |
| 12 | Furthermore the line has several times been proposed for closure and only strenuous efforts by local politicians and the Heart of Wales Line Travellers ' Association ( HOWLTA ) have kept it open - indeed it is a minor miracle that it survived the Beeching closures . |
| 13 | This fact , and the decay-rate restrictions discussed below , lie behind the paucity of experimental evidence on Ikeda instabilities : only in two all-optical systems ( both pulsed rather than continuous-wave ) has 2tR oscillation and chaos been observed to date . |
| 14 | Not only had most manorial demesnes been let to farm well before the beginning of the Tudor epoch , small freeholds and customary tenements were also regularly managed in the same fashion — indeed , they must frequently have been treated as investments . |
| 15 | Th the the other thing erm reference that this other manager has not at no occa on no occasion has that car been used for company use . |
| 16 | 274 has in reality occurred , the position of insurers in that field has in the result been prejudiced by legislation the effect of which was far from clear . |
| 17 | Has the Russian spring been done to death in literature ? |
| 18 | Not only had Rahner been attacked by Ottaviani a little while before , but he had long suffered at the hands of the Holy Office and his public rehabilitation could be seen as a snub for Ottaviani . |
| 19 | Had the reasonable foreseeability test been used in Polemis , it is likely that the defendants would have been not liable . |
| 20 | How has the cat been used in warfare ? |
| 21 | Pardon , it 's not , it 's not shown on this map , no , cos erm the golf course have been instructed erm since this er plan been put in front of us some ten years ago . |
| 22 | And I think there are a lot of questions that need to be asked — has there been , er have , have corners been cut in order to keep the cost down , were we getting a good quality service or just a cheap service ? |
| 23 | And all the people that had stallions South been left in Orkney all Winter somebody had kept them . |
| 24 | How highly had this machine been rated in reviews ? |
| 25 | Daniel Yergin 's recent book ‘ The Prize ’ shows that oil has for decades been cosseted with tax breaks and government subsidies . |
| 26 | A Cumbrian newspaper observed that , ‘ Never before had an almost complete community been transplanted into West Cumberland ’ . |
| 27 | That was the thrush ( ‘ he sings each song twice over ’ ) and she could also recognise the thoughtful song of the robin , a loner like herself , the virtuoso blackbird ( why had so few poems been written in praise of him ? ) and the starling , with its one sweet note on a flute . |
| 28 | Had their judgments on waste been issued by GATT , they would no doubt have provoked uproar from environmental activists . |
| 29 | This Vitamin A derivative had for years been prescribed to acne sufferers , but it was not until the mid-Eighties that reports began to filter through from the States about its miraculous ability to smooth out wrinkles caused by exposure to the sun — a process known as photo-ageing . |
| 30 | Voluntary codes of practice are still widely accepted in Britain , and public authorities like the BBC , the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the Cable Television Authority , the Advertising Standards Authority , and the British Board of Film Classification ( the BBFC ) have for many years been entrusted with responsibility for media standards . |