Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] a special " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Plaque Remover has been designed with a special brushing time indicator which flashes when two minutes are up . |
| 2 | The money itself had been lodged in a special account in Germany : if ever they returned there , they could collect it . |
| 3 | This could have been accomplished through a special edition of The Register or accompanying literature sent out with the ballot papers . |
| 4 | After all , the postal map of London S.W.1 had been drawn with a special excrescence to enable Harrods to be included in it and thus avoid the ignominy of falling within the outer darkness of S.W.3 or 7 . |
| 5 | Again this technique has also been used in a special probe . |
| 6 | According to Roberts the money was , he tactfully put it , ‘ to have been employed on a special service for the late king ’ . |
| 7 | One such theory is the ‘ Now Print ! ’ mechanism ( Brown & Kulik , 1977 ; Livingston , 1967a , 1967b ) which has been proposed as a special memory mechanism which operates only at times of great arousal to encode specific details of the situation , this will be briefly considered when evidence about flashbulb and vivid memories is discussed below . |
| 8 | The inside of two large lorries had been converted into a special effects roadshow that allows visitors to get the sound , sight , taste , smell and feel of Guinness — and win prizes as they go . |
| 9 | Storms up to 170 nautical miles away can also been monitored in a special ‘ weather window ’ that can be displayed as required in a corner of the screen . |
| 10 | In Nicaragua , the approximately 20,000 refugees have been assisted through a special government programme . |
| 11 | It was reported to the Group that their request to the Council of the Law Society to commission a firm of management consultants to make an examination of the property market in Scotland had been remitted to a Special Committee of the Society comprising representatives of its Purchase and Sale of Heritage and Professional Practice Committees . |
| 12 | John Blackwell 's Irish lands had been confirmed by a special Act in the second Protectorate Parliament ( of 1656–8 ) . |
| 13 | It had the same feeling of having been created for a special , mystical purpose . |
| 14 | Marilyn has been licensed at a special service at St John 's Church there , effectively joining the ministry team in the parish of Egremont . |
| 15 | A DEDICATED doctor has been ordered before a special health authority hearing — accused of working too hard . |
| 16 | Proceedings of the National Food Survey 's 50th Anniversary symposium — staged by MAFF last December — have been published in a special volume . |
| 17 | It is difficult to equate a derelict railway goods yard in central London with new and rare plant species , or with unusual associations of native plants , but this has now been established in a special report supervised by the Urban Environmental Consultants at North London Polytechnic . |