Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] been [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although most of us can recognize without difficulty the importance that the emotions play in our lives , the subject has been given little systematic attention by the disciplines most concerned with furthering understanding of human behaviour . |
| 32 | Volunteers at the centre have been videoing this pair of kingfishers and so far it looks as though the experiment is a success . |
| 33 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 34 | It would be b because the straw , the thatch had been pulled all straight it would flowing down , and then they used to er they used to th throw it over , it would be throwing the water away from the stack had been built like an egg you know . |
| 35 | But this time the door had been closed all the way , and she could n't make out what was being said . |
| 36 | He felt sure the man had been paid some sort of allowance for putting him up , but it did n't look as if any of it was going to be spent on food . |
| 37 | The project has been drawn some criticism , however , from those who argue that it does not take sufficient account of the interests of local tribal people . |
| 38 | In much of the writing on the dependent elderly , the assumption has been made that retirement has become more common at an earlier age because of a reduction in the demand for elderly workers . |
| 39 | In an effort to reduce overproduction of food , the suggestion has been made that land in lowland Britain be taken out of agricultural production and forested . |
| 40 | Er if there were to be an exceptions policy the suggestion has been made that certain districts perhaps could be identified er as being a suitable location . |
| 41 | Once the model has been installed any modules of the defined type and subtype will follow the model . |
| 42 | And McDonald 's UK president , Paul Preston , said : ‘ The restaurant has been packed all morning . |
| 43 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 44 | Within the English tradition of radical , ‘ Marx-influenced ’ , sociology the tendency has been to concede that social mobility is in principle important ( large-scale mobility would make a difference to one 's analysis ) , but to deny that really significant social mobility has taken place . |
| 45 | But no members of the public have been killed this year by the security forces compared to eight last year . |
| 46 | One approach to the problem has been to list all the various kinds of non-business organizations , pointing out their political , economic , and social differences , and then build the accounting theories from there . |
| 47 | Lord Denning said that it could be implied that the Minister had been given this power to enable him to revoke licences obtained illegally . |
| 48 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 49 | The local government system of the time had been given some shape by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 , but it was not until the end of the century that it acquired a structure that would enable it to take on the range of functions it has today . |
| 50 | The Earth has been visited many times in its history , but it 's all been covered up . |
| 51 | Everything 's done : turkey stuffed , the pudding has been made this past five weeks . |
| 52 | Traditionally the records of these transactions have tended to be stored on parchment , vellum or paper and the job of the archive has been to preserve these information storage media . |
| 53 | But Mr Norman Dunn , Newtownabbey 's Council director of leisure and technical services , said the impression had been given that ‘ security cameras were going to hide from every tree . |
| 54 | The impression has been given that they can not live independently in ordinary housing . |
| 55 | ‘ The impression has been given that it is easy to obtain a justices ’ licence and move into a public house , ’ he said . |
| 56 | After a contract has been agreed any new instructions and variations to the works potentially cost money ; if the client wishes to control costs it is essential that any such additions are controlled . |
| 57 | But if no decision has been taken either way , then the court should be free to decide on the merits , making the best decision for the future , though of course taking into account strategic consistency . " |
| 58 | The lad who made a big impact as a 16-year-old has been ignored this season . |
| 59 | At 0430 there are no civilians about , and if a bomb had been planted this would be an ideal time to detonate it . |
| 60 | In the meantime a jig had been prepared such that the tailplanes could be broken under loads not dissimilar to those they would meet in the air . |