Example sentences of "[verb] has been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desire to diversify has been prompted by a need to boost dwindling profit margins in an increasingly competitive traditional banking sector . |
| 2 | None of the museums consulted has been approached as a possible venue for any of the ‘ WONDERS ’ shows . |
| 3 | The out of court settlement made two days before the trial was to be heard has been hailed as a legal milestone by the Spinal Injuries Association . |
| 4 | What happens when a majority voting equilibrium does not exist has been explored in a number of studies . |
| 5 | none of the systems to be reported has been tested in a way which would allow evaluation of their linguistic effectiveness . |
| 6 | Jim Harris , new president and CEO of the Santa Cruz Operation , was one of the very earliest in the door at Intel Corp , where he made his fortune : since 1988 , aside from his position on SCO 's board , he has has been occupied as a farmer in Minnesota . |
| 7 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 8 | The selection of a prospective parliamentary candidate shall not be regarded as completed until the name of the member selected has been placed before a meeting of the National Executive Committee , and his or her selection has been duly endorsed . |
| 9 | Similarly , I , as an anthropologist , am attempting to draw attention to another level at which Greenfield is not being explicit : namely , the fact that what schooled children are doing has been learnt as a convention within a school system . |
| 10 | The struggle to decipher has been presented as a good thing in itself , though construing sentences is not the same thing as achieving intellectual understanding . |
| 11 | In his songs he appears to realise that the dear old Blighty that he glorified has been reduced to a sorry Union Jack T-shirt on a frustrated football supporter . |
| 12 | Ford summarized his section on in-house use by observing that the ratio of books consulted in-house to books borrowed has been reported as a range from 0.4:1 to 11.2:1 . |
| 13 | Everything that the Megas have achieved has been received with a degree of surprise . |
| 14 | Looking to the future , filming has been completed on a Service Quality Development video on telephone techniques . |