Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] considerable [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The words and their phrasing left no doubt that the princess had been placed under considerable pressure to speak out publicly for the first time since her marriage to Prince Charles . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , no effective gall bladder plug has been developed despite considerable research in this field . |
| 4 | Had the plans for a third London airport in the Thames estuary gone ahead , the land could doubtless have been developed at considerable profit . |
| 5 | They 've been developed after considerable consumer research and will evaluate new products and new service ideas which if found acceptable will be taken up by the M F I chain . |
| 6 | The use of the leap-frog appeal has been surrounded by considerable caution and the very stringent conditions to be met before such an appeal can be taken has meant that there have been very few such appeals . |
| 7 | The ballot has been surrounded by considerable controversy . |
| 8 | Those sections , dealing in turn with the origins of life and man , the exploration of our Solar System , medical research , and finally sundry technologies , have — except for this last section — been organised with considerable coherence . |
| 9 | These ridges have been built with considerable rapidity for Camber Castle stands on the innermost ridge , although , when it was constructed in 1538–9 , it stood on the ridge next to the sea . |
| 10 | The budget was the first to be based on President Hashemi Rafsanjani 's development plan for 1989-93 , which had been adopted after considerable debate at the end of January 1990 . |
| 11 | Behind him the door of the house whose occupant he had just been interviewing had been dosed with considerable firmness . |
| 12 | Bt var israelensis ( Bti ) rapidly became the basis for commercial products for mosquito control and has been used with considerable success in many countries . |
| 13 | Recently a new group of drugs , cytosine and adenosine arabinoside , have been used with considerable success against generalized viral illness , particularly in people whose natural defence mechanisms are below par , but it remains to be seen whether it is feasible to use them on localized herpetic infection . |
| 14 | I am very conscious , however , that this task has already been performed in considerable detail , not only by Ralph Gibson and Glidewell L.JJ. in the Court of Appeal , but also by my noble and learned friends , Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle . |
| 15 | A flexible engineering system had been introduced after considerable debate about the worthwhileness of the investment . |
| 16 | The events in the Wash have been documented with considerable precision . |
| 17 | These forms of strict liability have been retained by the Animals Act 1971 and , though they have been subjected to considerable modification , much of the old learning will continue to be relevant . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , these arrangements have been subjected to considerable criticism , although much of it is related to the high-rise building , difficulty of supervising children , industrialised building materials and the other , now familiar , complaints about such brutal townscapes . |
| 19 | Inequality in health , especially that based on social class or occupational status , is a topic which has been subjected to considerable scrutiny . |
| 20 | Despite the occasional call for a militant renewal of the Leavisian enterprise , by 1970 every one of its fundamental ideological props had been subjected to considerable strain . |
| 21 | Within the health service the very direct influence of the doctors has been subjected to considerable attention by policy analysts . |
| 22 | It is therefore subject to the omissions and confusions of long-term memory , which have been discussed in considerable detail by both social scientists and oral historians . |
| 23 | The spectra of transition-metal complexes in the visible and near-UV regions have been studied in considerable detail , and may be most informative . |
| 24 | It was a decision taken in haste , which has been repented at considerable leisure . |
| 25 | Caersws station , Llanidloes road level crossing and one crossing up near Criccieth remain semaphore operated ; Machynlleth new station plus staff facilities very nice — old station disintegrating ; Aberystwyth station yard tidied up after several interesting fires but station is on the whole hardly inspiring and platform staff have been working under considerable uncertainty about their futures . |