Example sentences of "[noun] has been [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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31 Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League .
32 No satisfactory response has been made to that research .
33 O. affinis has been recorded from both sides of the North Atlantic ; in the western Atlantic from off Florida in 229–491 m and in the eastern Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay , off the Canaries and from the Josephina Bank with a bathymetric range of 1425–1935 m .
34 This route has been followed by many of our European competitors — notably Germany .
35 Consumerism has been enshrined in most recent government statements about community care …
36 The increasing control of TDC by the Texas courts has been referred to several times already .
37 KEVIN WARD has been banned for both of St Helens ' two big holiday attractions .
38 Though Oslerus has been recorded from many countries there is little data on its local prevalence .
39 A computerised index has been prepared for these and other donations of commercial and ‘ folk ’ recordings .
40 The Chelt 's course has been diverted in this area and consequently , it no longer actually flows to a mill which , like the majority of the mills on the lower section of the Chelt , is of brick and slate construction .
41 The ability of a prime minister effectively to call a general election has been regarded by some writers as the most important weapon in ensuring parliamentary support .
42 After the dung has been processed in this way for about six weeks , the termites are able to eat and digest it , fungal threads , white knobs , residue and all .
43 It might be argued that this function has been coopted by such purposive ( indeed , allegedly manipulative ) schemes as the Youth Training Scheme .
44 The gravitational field has been explored in some detail by observations of the satellites and of the paths of fly-by spacecraft .
45 Our awards are renowned for their transportability across the many countries in which the Board has been recognised for more than a century .
46 If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light .
47 This hypothesis has been examined in several studies looking at the PiZ phenotype and periportal α 1 AT granules in patients and controls , and no evidence to support involvement of α 1 AT in genetic predisposition has been found .
48 The exact nature of the influence of experience has been studied in many systems .
49 ‘ We are not king makers but conciliators , ’ said Bill Packer , a Texas oil millionaire , whose discrete presence has been felt in many Amnerican campaigns .
50 A possible Christian presence has been suggested by several fourth century burials in the Northover cemetery , because of their east-west orientation and similarities with Poundbury , but this evidence is insufficiently conclusive .
51 This is not , of course , the first time that the play has been performed in this way — in 1967 , for instance , the National Theatre mounted a brilliant all-male ‘ As You Like It ’ , with Ronald Pickup as Rosalind and Anthony Hopkins ( ! ) as Audrey .
52 Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too .
53 Much detailed information about the vibration frequencies of different electronic states of diatomic molecules and some simple polyatomic molecules has been obtained in this way .
54 But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . "
55 The Quality Framework described in this Update has been shaped by those responses .
56 This geometric design is Inca , from Croydex 's new Premiere range of textile shower curtains , forming a dramatic focal point around which a warm ethnic look has been developed in this bathroom .
57 Induction cooking has been hailed by many as the cooking revolution .
58 The pension offered to widows has been cut in half .
59 Resistance has been confirmed in most counties where blackgrass is a problem , and is causing increasing concern .
60 The task of introducing TQM has been given to former Group Training Manager , Bob Rae , who was promoted to General Manager , Quality Development in January .
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