Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [conj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is especially clear in the later stages of the market , when the relatively simple relations of speculative production have been joined and in many areas replaced by planned marketing operations in which certain types of work are positively promoted , of course with the corollary that other types are left at best to make their own way . |
| 2 | I was staggered to realise I had been honoured and to this day I do n't know who put me forward . ’ |
| 3 | Under basal conditions adenylate cyclase activity was significantly higher in homogenates of coeliac disease patients who had not been treated than in those of successfully treated patients and of control subjects ( Table I ) Forskolin stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in all the samples , whereas peptic tryptic cotazym gliadin digest ( 50 µg/ml ) significantly increased this activity only in the samples from coeliac disease patients who had not been treated . |
| 4 | Basal guanylate cyclase activity was lower in homogenates from coeliac disease patients who had not been treated than in those from patients who had been treated and from control subjects , though the differences were not statistically significant ( Table I ) . |
| 5 | Both cAMP and cGMP values were significantly higher in duodenal mucosa homogenates from coeliac disease patients who had not been treated than in those from patients who had been treated and from control subjects ( Table II ) . |
| 6 | As they would tell the story , the USSR would long ago have been crushed but for these measures . |
| 7 | The new young secretary of the BFASS , Louis Chamerovzow , described the aristocratic group as one whose antislavery feelings ‘ had not simply been re-awakened but in many instances actually created by Mrs. Stowe 's work ’ , distancing such newcomers from those who had laboured long in the cause . |
| 8 | Walker , who apart from the Prime Minister herself ( Margaret Thatcher ) and Sir Geoffrey Howe was the only remaining member of the Conservative Cabinet formed in 1979 ( and who had also been a member of Edward Heath 's Cabinet in 1970-74 ) , had for a considerable time been regarded as in many ways out of sympathy with certain aspects of Thatcher 's political philosophy . |
| 9 | The lands to the north and east of a line joining these two houses had in the ninth century been conquered and to some degree settled by pagan Scandinavians , who had destroyed the existing monasteries and several of the bishoprics , and such evidence as there is suggests that the Christianity practised within them retained aspects upon which the stricter kind of churchman would have frowned . |
| 10 | It is , of course , desirable to check that nothing has been forgotten and to this end it is usual to ask an operator to go through the designed procedure while observing what he does and also observing that the system performs as expected . |
| 11 | Is he aware that in Bath , all cataract operations have been cancelled except for those involving the patients of fund holders and that in Norwich , the patients of fund holders are jumping the waiting list and entering private wards ? |
| 12 | To handle these , a separate telephone line with a twenty four hour answering machine service has been installed and to each individual is sent a list of stockists for their local area , together with a covering letter . |
| 13 | But by that time stadia had been booked and in most cases new arrangements could not be made . |
| 14 | For one thing , the poet thus extolled has been presented as above all poetically ‘ a democrat ’ . |
| 15 | In all such cases the court must estimate as best it can what would have happened if the plaintiff had not been injured and on that basis must assess his loss . |
| 16 | Perhaps he had been kidnapped or for some reason forced to adopt another identity , in which case he could be trusted to reappear , several reigns later , cover himself in glory and inherit the throne . |
| 17 | Jespersen , for instance , is of the opinion that although " to had at first its ordinary prepositional meaning of direction … the meaning of the preposition has been weakened and in some cases totally extinguished " ( 1927 : 10 ) . |
| 18 | As railway systems all over the world have contracted , so the great stations have been threatened and in many places destroyed . |
| 19 | Reports on these visits have been made and from these a number of lessons have been identified which firms that are using risk management systems are likely to find of interest . |
| 20 | In many companies the normal management accounting system will only pick up a currency exposure when the sales entry has been made and by that time adverse currency fluctuations could have eroded or wiped out the profit margin . |
| 21 | It has been argued that at this stage ‘ the growth of Protestantism was far from a major problem ’ ; its spread , and the numbers involved , were very limited . |
| 22 | It has been argued that in most mining areas the strong sense of ‘ community ’ stems from the overwhelming importance of the coal-mining industry in the area and from the shared experiences this produces for male miners . |
| 23 | Fleischmann and Pons ' ideas had been anticipated though for all the wrong reasons , primarily a misguided attempt to make helium to fill airships , and all this because the USA would not sell the gas to postwar Germany . |
| 24 | However , they have not been briefed that in this case the drop zone will be changed at the last minute . |
| 25 | I have been told that in these circumstances it is permissible from an audit point of view to write back debts that are over two years old , notwithstanding the provisions of the Statute of Limitations , giving the creditor the right to demand payment for up to six years . |
| 26 | We have been told that beneath that star the Christ Child will be born . ’ |
| 27 | It has been alleged that at this rate it would take 300 years to examine all the programmes outlined in Table 15.1 above . |
| 28 | As for my own research , there are some areas of it in which quantification has not been used because in these areas it was not necessary or appropriate for the purpose I had in mind ( see for example the discussions in chapter 5 ) . |
| 29 | Never in the history of beadling has such a singular public service been performed as by that plucky band of Batmen . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , it has not yet been shown that in these circumstances charcoal reduces the need for an antidote . |