Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [conj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | By letting the property market lead , the industrial sector has been ignored and on many occasions existing industry has been driven out or left to die . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I do think that public concern over the leniency of the original sentence has been assuaged and in that sense I suppose some justice has been done . ’ |
| 7 | For one thing , the poet thus extolled has been presented as above all poetically ‘ a democrat ’ . |
| 8 | It has been alleged that at this rate it would take 300 years to examine all the programmes outlined in Table 15.1 above . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that in such cases , the offender 's benefit should be channelled to a general victim compensation fund . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that in some countries where capital punishment has been abolished the alternative is the imprisonment of murderers under more rigorous conditions than are applicable to other prisoners , but from the information collected by the Select Committee it appears that this suggestion is unfounded . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that in some rural areas , clitoridectomy is practised but there have been no confirmed reports and it would seem unlikely as it was not a characteristic of Meso-american cultures . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | From experience , and depending on the species selected , it has been found that with these numbers of large cichlids all present in the same tank , there is not the space for any of them to be able to establish a permanent territory and fight off all invaders . |
| 15 | It has been estimated that in this way US soybean plantations leak about 30 billion cubic metres of hydrogen annually . |
| 16 | I was staggered to realise I had been honoured and to this day I do n't know who put me forward . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But by that time stadia had been booked and in most cases new arrangements could not be made . |
| 19 | She did n't know at the time about the pictures that had been taken or about some of those activities in which he did take part . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was lowered down the main shaft and once underground tried to make his way to the area in which the missing men had been working or to any passageway in which they could have sought refuge . |
| 22 | What I had been fighting for for all these years — the right for gay people to live their lives openly with dignity and respect — was actually happening , and in the most unlikely of places . |
| 23 | says explaining why he had come to earth Jesus told the Roman governor Pontius Pilate , will thus I 've been born and for this purpose I have come out of the world that I should bear witness to the truth , but what particular truth was Jesus sent to earth to make no man , first just about his heavenly father , he taught his followers to pray that his father name be hallowed or hell holy and he prayed , I have made your name manifest to the man you gave me , also he said I must declare the good news with the kingdom of God , because for this I was sent forth , so what truths did Jesus come to er , to tell ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | On behalf of the Ulster Unionist party , I join other hon. Members in expressing our sympathy to the families of those who have been killed and to all who were injured in the incident at the Musgrave Park hospital at the weekend . |
| 26 | More goals have been scored than in many previous seasons at this stage . |
| 27 | As railway systems all over the world have contracted , so the great stations have been threatened and in many places destroyed . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As they would tell the story , the USSR would long ago have been crushed but for these measures . |
| 30 | It usually starts shortly after the animals have been weaned and in most instances it only persists for a few months . |