Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] been in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Bill was gazetted only two months after the closure of one of Tanzania 's few private political newspapers — the last paper which could be considered to have been in open opposition to the Government . |
| 2 | Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded . |
| 3 | A tribe of Aborigines known as the Dolphin People , who live on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria , in northern Australia , is said to have been in direct communication for thousands of years with the wild bottlenose dolphins who reside just off the coast . |
| 4 | Looks as if Lotus Development Corp is being shopped around as a merger partner : according to the Wall Street Journal , Borland International Inc 's Philippe Kahn discussed a possible merger with Lotus 's Jim Manzi last month , although the talks were inconclusive , and elsewhere Manzi was seen to have been in deep discussions over dinner with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Scott McNealy ; Lotus of course tried and failed to merge with Novell Inc . |
| 5 | Many spoke with respect and admiration for the soldiers of the 6th Army , but took the view that the losses suffered had been in vain . |
| 6 | Although there is certainly no clear-cut distinction , there seem to have been in recent years two rather separate major usages of this term ( and related terms such as ‘ chief information officer ’ ; , ‘ information system ’ , ‘ information centre ’ , ‘ end user ’ , and so on ) in the literature . |
| 7 | They seem to have been in some sort of vassal relationship with the Dzhungars until they broke away in the 1650s and 1660s . |
| 8 | ‘ Streamline has been in regular use at the Chambre de Commerce since the early 1980's . |
| 9 | They thought in terms of a picture of the universe and of the origin of humankind ( one which we now know to have been in large part mistaken ) , and they interpreted their awareness of God in conjunction with this picture . |
| 10 | However , on several other occasions the Kuwaiti authorities have denied holding individuals who were subsequently found to have been in incommunicado detention . |
| 11 | His coinage system seems to have been in good order for most of the reign , although its development and exploitation for the king 's benefit may have been another cause of popular unrest . |
| 12 | The ‘ 18T was radically different to earlier variants , a totally new fuselage having been designed to give side-by-side instead of tandem seating and first flight is believed to have been in 1967 . |
| 13 | For it must be remembered that Divitiacus does not seem to have been in perfect command either of Greek or of Latin . |
| 14 | I do n't know where he did his police training , but it does n't seem to have been in any recognisable academy . |
| 15 | Some of the greatest lessons to be learnt have been in human terms . |