Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have [been] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upstairs the old house seemed to be on a multitude of different levels , with steps up and down , unexpected recesses and windows , all of which had been given a character of their own , by a carefully chosen ornament or floral arrangement . |
| 2 | The poster had been pinned onto a large wooden board to the top of which had been affixed a very small Lebanese flag . |
| 3 | The central finding is that the rising superiority of the Japanese is based , not on scale or factor costs , but on the creation of what has been dubbed a ‘ lean ’ system of production . |
| 4 | The crown consists of two circlet crowns welded together and into which has been set a cloth-covered headpiece . |
| 5 | The JMP-1 is an attractive 1U package , with what looks like a gold anodised front panel into which has been set a window for all the data controls . |
| 6 | Employment relations as a fundamental relation of organizations upon which has been constructed a whole discourse of the determinism of size as a contingency variable increasingly gave way to more complex and fragmentary relational forms , such as subcontracting and networking . |
| 7 | Modern theories of water structure centre on computer-simulation models from which has been developed a concept which is similar to the DNA model just discussed , the concept of cellular automata . |
| 8 | Deep inside her had been awakened a nameless , primitive fear that at first had ached away in the background , but slowly had grown more evident , more pronounced , like a stared-at , half-perceived figure in the shadowy corner of a bedroom . |
| 9 | We now live in what has been called a ‘ turbulent environment ’ , which is characterized by increased levels of complexity , interdependence and uncertainty . |
| 10 | There may , however , have been a diminution in tribute and revenues from possibly less securely held border regions and it would be surprising if the political problems of this period were not at least a factor in what has been called a ‘ drastic economic collapse ’ |
| 11 | Harden 's type-series ( 1956b , pp. 139–43 ) divided the total assemblage into a number of distinct categories , beakers with stems or claws , bell , bag or cone-shaped , with the related horns , pouch bottles , squat jars , bottles , palm cups and bowls , to which has been added a bucket-shaped vessel from the cemetery of Westgarth Gardens , Bury St Edmunds ( Suffolk ) ; slight variations have been made to the original typology ( Harden 1978 , pp. 2–6 ) . |
| 12 | This does not normally involve dismantling the disk drive , you just insert in the drive a special disk to which has been added a small amount of a cleaning fluid . |
| 13 | Section 10 establishes the Register of Land Charges consisting of five classes to which has been added a sixth , Class F. They are described below and apart from the bankruptcy entries , relate to unregistered land . |
| 14 | Here the buildings were disfigured almost beyond recognition ; some had fallen into the street while others leaned outwards , a hopeless thoroughfare of broken concrete , stones , weeds and pillaged furniture across which had been built a low barricade made of chairs , doors and broken tables . |
| 15 | A sheet had been spread out on the ground , and around it had been placed a square of long hard bolsters . |
| 16 | In those societies where the third estate was initially weak — and during its subsequent development in the nineteenth century became more clearly divided into distinct classes — the bourgeoisie , already threatened by the labour movement , embraced a more conservative type of nationalism , and the creation of a modern nation state based upon the capitalist mode of production was accomplished in a more authoritarian fashion by what has been called a ‘ revolution from above ’ ( Moore , 1967 ) . |