Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] [verb] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the space available , an attempt has been made to describe some of the techniques available for obtaining and utilizing chromosome preparations from different stages of embryogenesis . |
| 2 | Transcripts of tape recordings have revealed a fascinating array of meanings ; an attempt has been made to interpret these in the social and cultural context of the pupils ' experience . |
| 3 | The heavy freight loco has been rostered to haul most of the W.S.R 's heaviest trains , particularly during the summer peak services , running with smokebox facing Minehead . |
| 4 | The charity for the elderly has been forced to reduce some of its activities at Whyte House on the Waterside due to lack of funds . |
| 5 | The provisions determining exactly whether or not anything has been added have , predictably , already proved so unclear that a Revenue statement of practice ( SP5/92 ) has been issued to resolve some of the more obvious difficulties of interpretation . |
| 6 | Elsewhere in this book , empirical evidence for commodity futures has been used to supplement that for index futures . |
| 7 | WWF has greatly expanded its conservation work , and in response to requests from supporters , a series of leaflets has been published outlining some of the main issues . |
| 8 | : Mb This scheme has been designed to overcome many of the objections that were raised to the earlier scheme , particularly in relation to the car parking that is now in excess of that which was originally required . |
| 9 | But it is very different from a forward contract and has been designed to remove many of the disadvantages of forward contracts . |
| 10 | She would have been tempted to visit all of Montaine 's old haunts . |
| 11 | If he had not fallen in love with Linda his male genitals would have been sculpted to mimic those of a female by a surgeon in Middlesbrough General Hospital some time next year . |
| 12 | ‘ A motor vehicle must have been used to take some of this property . |
| 13 | We read and experimented until we could stride into builders ' suppliers and ask for one-way cistern inlet valves , 1.5 mm triplecore insulated or three-inch steel angle brackets , just as though we had been born knowing all about it , like men ! |
| 14 | By James 's landing in mid-March the Protestants had been forced to abandon most of their strongholds and soon after his arrival they gave up Dungannon , 35 miles [ 56 km ] west of Belfast , and Coleraine , a seaport on the north coast , which succumbed to an Irish force under a French commander . |
| 15 | One young farmer , Shermani Yussef , said that for the first time in his life he had been forced to lease some of his land to cover his losses . |
| 16 | After a few initial displays of outraged incomprehension , Brian had been forced to accept this as a fact of life , explaining to his colleagues and superiors , with a wry smile , that Constance was a friend of his wife 's : his wife had a taste for the eccentric , since she was the daughter of a famous artist , and , oddly enough , believe it or not , Constance was a skilled silversmith . |
| 17 | Miller had been forced to transplant some of these just as they were coming into flower , but by cutting off all the buds , placing them in a wet trench and watering continuously until they became established , he was able , in August and September to pick flowers ‘ as fair as those produced in June ’ . |
| 18 | Lincolnshire County Council had already introduced a pre-ERA scheme of delegation which had been used to fund much of its secondary education . |
| 19 | Only five minutes before the hearings began they had been allowed to read these for themselves , and in the words of one family friend , the Reverend Derek Edwards , ‘ they were devastating … ’ |
| 20 | Even before his death in February 1790 Joseph , ill and discouraged , had been driven to revoke some of his most unpopular measures . |
| 21 | By the spring of 1940 the War Office had been persuaded to put some of these ideas into practice and a number of companies were raised to act independently in guerrilla roles . |
| 22 | Although he had been told to do this on some goddamned boring management course , the sergeant did it instinctively . |
| 23 | In Spain , the policies of the enterprises controlled by the holding company INI have been said to follow those of their private sector counterparts , to the detriment of the national interest in areas such as pricing policy and import controls ( e.g. Tamames 1986 : 177–80 ) . |
| 24 | The club have been invited to join some of rugby 's elite in the Dubai Sevens to be held on November 19 and 20 when they will face one of the toughest rugby sevens line-ups ever assembled . |
| 25 | Orrell have been invited to join some of rugby 's elite and take part in the Dubai Sevens on November 19 and 20 . |
| 26 | Firstly , I am reporting to you that there has been in the current year additional efficiency savings over and above those that previously anticipated er at the level of two hundred thousand pounds and so we are assuming in the budget erm that those can continue into ninety four , five and thereafter , and then we 'll see the resolutions have been amended to take that into account and the text of the erratum sheet explains how that 's been done . |
| 27 | The Spanish government has promised to pay some of the Pts 11 billion ( US$95 million ) cost of building the Barcelona synchrotron , and the European Communities have been asked to provide half of the money . |
| 28 | And whatever you finally decide to do with it , bear in mind that great sacrifices have been made to bring this to you . |
| 29 | Understanding of the disorder has progressed in all these directions , and several attempts have been made to combine some of these ideas in an integrative model ( e.g. Akiskal , 1979 ; Gilbert , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | There are often , among the competitors , girls from Eastern Bloc or otherwise under-privileged countries who have been brought up to believe that a monumental talent requires total dedication , who have been told that great minds do not fuss about small externals , who have been led to suppose that for a great genius to be a plain Jane is only appropriate . |