Example sentences of "been [verb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Even the work of scribes writing centuries after the Conquest has been dismissed in this way , seemingly mainly because it is variable , and not because we can ( usually ) know whether the scribe was a first-language speaker of Anglo-Norman , or whether it would have been relevant if he had been .
2 The enemy 's base , a disused farmhouse , has been examined in great detail by an earlier reconnaissance patrol and everyone knows , in theory at least , how to reach it and What to do on arrival .
3 Although parts of this tradition have been examined in great detail , some of the most important aspects of it for this theme have received little attention .
4 Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York .
5 Magritte 's career has not been examined in such detail in Britain since Sylvester curated a smaller and more exclusive exhibition for the Tate Gallery in 1969 .
6 The accident records at these schools have been examined in considerable detail by the Departments of Highways and Education and the Police and four areas have been highlighted for further action and detailed investigation .
7 It is frustrating that so little pottery from settlements has been examined in this manner , although Brisbane ( 1981 ) has proposed a model for various modes of production that may be appropriate for such pottery .
8 The formation of a strategy for confronting the current crisis of accumulation in the world capitalist system will depend on the factors that have been examined in this chapter : the balance of social forces , class strategies and forms of political representation ; the broad historical character of the state ; and its internal composition , organizational interests , and dynamic .
9 The interior was still waiting for its first clean and the upholstery felt as if it had been textured in buff nicotine .
10 Where towns have been joined in this way the whole built-up area is called a conurbation .
11 The voices of rural families have seldom been heard in effective protest , and least of all in socialist states such as Tanzania and Mozambique , each of which have compelled large chunks of their rural population to live in communal villages against their will .
12 Our room appeared not to have been inhabited in living memory .
13 One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language .
14 ‘ It is clear that Professor Wybran has been assassinated in cold blood because he was a Jew , ’ it said .
15 Now it 's true that since the second world war all wars have been limited in one sense or another , but then comes the question , if you do , in fact , succeed in defining objectives er and de in defining the means to those objectives , how can you know in fact that you possess genuine capability without putting it to the test , without actually fighting the war and then finding that you can not win it ?
16 One of the factors influencing the career decisions of professionals is opportunity for career advancement , which has been limited in this field until recently .
17 Since job opportunities in industry have been limited in this way , how do the millions who are coming to the city earn a living ?
18 In his search he was aided by a number of new roads which the Mexican government has been building in this area to open up new regions to cultivation .
19 Until recently however very little systematic research has been undertaken in this country .
20 Process aspects of mathematics may prove to be particularly difficult to express in criterion statements , but little work has yet been undertaken in this area .
21 Despite the substantial growth in studies of women 's employment over the past decade , very little comparative analysis has been undertaken in this area .
22 A matron has been placed in temporary charge of the home .
23 Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that there will be outrage tonight in my constituency and in that of my hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk , East ( Mr. Ewing ) at his betrayal of the trust that has been placed in that hospital by the people in its care ?
24 It starts at the bottom line and scans across to ‘ see ’ what colours have been placed in this row of squares .
25 Yet these farmers had usually been placed in this situation because there was no one else willing to take on the task .
26 That 's now been placed in proper context by the arrival of Samantha as Head of Communications , as Judy said earlier on , we 're already beginning to enjoy the fruits of her skills , in the presentation surely you 're seeing today .
27 A misunderstanding then seems to have occurred with Fimbra writing to its members last week saying that its scheme had not been altered in any way and that members could not renew existing policies if the renewal date was after 1990 .
28 The crop will be examined to ensure that the potatoes have not been altered in any way other than in their new ability to manufacture the lectin protein .
29 Once intervention rates have been altered in this fashion , a change in rates will occur across all sterling money markets .
30 No other section of the community has been treated in this way .
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