Example sentences of "[conj] have been [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The builder had either spent three weeks cleaning it or had been kept in pristine condition , ’ says Darren . |
| 2 | Enraptured by the celluloid screen , we revelled in the romance that had been denied to us , or had been put in cold storage ‘ for the duration , . |
| 3 | Some memoirs , too , take us much further than official material ; those of de Gaulle are a case in point , while British official documents which in their original form remained hidden from the historian by the thirty-year rule were printed in the books of Winston Churchill and Eden , or have been unearthed in private collections by scholars able to disregard the consequences of publication . |
| 4 | I have already explained , I think three times , in the hearing of President Delors why this Government are not prepared to put at risk the striking progress that has been made in industrial relations in this country since 1979 . |
| 5 | ‘ Let's at least try to solve the immediate problem with a practical step that has been proven in other parts of the country , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Thus , from the late 1970s parts of Sheffield began , very rapidly , to experience that deterioration of the economic fabric that has been felt in other parts of the county of South Yorkshire for much longer ( Walker 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Sometimes this seemed indicated , as when he told the legislature they must beware ‘ When we are freeing ourselves from one form of imperialism [ against those who would ] … bind us to another one which would swiftly undo all the work that has been done in recent years to foster … a free and independent nation ’ ; ‘ As we would not have British masters , so we would not have Russian masters . ’ |
| 8 | One particularly important technique that has been developed in recent years is the inverse scattering method of Belinskii and Zakharov ( 1978 , 1979 ) which had previously been developed as a soliton technique . |
| 9 | Another solution-generating technique that has been developed in recent years is that associated with Bäcklund transformations . |
| 10 | Editor , — Paradoxical pain is a new and confusing term that has been defined in different ways . |
| 11 | His Laws is still read with pleasure when much that has been written in intervening centuries on the subjects which he treated appears arid , unintelligible , pompous or irrelevant . |
| 12 | The form of monetary policy that has been favoured in recent years is the control of interest rates . |
| 13 | Wales Link welcomes the appearance of a PPG Note concerned with coastal planning because it focuses attention on an important national resource that has been marginalised in strategic planning terms . |
| 14 | Sometimes , when seaming knitting that has been knitted in textured yarn , it can be difficult to knit the joining rows with the main carriage even with a smooth yarn . |
| 15 | Competition , as many writers have told us , is a term that has been used in innumerable senses . |
| 16 | More people with incontinence seem to be consulting their doctors about it than has been found in previous studies , but the procedures carried out by general practitioners still seem to be suboptimal . |
| 17 | A radical alternative to the peneplanation model that had been generated in humid temperate landscapes was pediplanation as conceived and developed by the geologist L.C. King . |
| 18 | ( b ) In the middle is the song of a chaffinch that had been reared in complete isolation , unable to hear any sounds at all ; it resembles the normal song , but is a crude version of it . |
| 19 | This arrangement might well have been satisfactory , with some accommodation between the two sides being not too difficult to achieve , but for the rancour that had been aroused in recent years . |
| 20 | One hundred years ago this month a distinguished group of chemists met in Geneva to resolve a crisis that had been developing in organic chemistry . |
| 21 | Post-mortem tissue was made available to us from talapoin monkeys ( Cercopithecus talapoin ) that had been used in unrelated endocrinological studies . |
| 22 | Absorbing many of the energies that had been concentrated in Independent Producers , Korda 's London Films was able for a time to resist the drift towards cosiness . |
| 23 | The distorting factors that have been discovered in scientific research have prompted extensive examination of past methods of research and of past results . |
| 24 | Fishing is one of John 's hobbies and he collects trout and bream that have been mounted in bow-front glass cases , with the date of their catch . |
| 25 | Moreover , they illustrate many of the theoretical points that have been raised in previous chapters . |
| 26 | This study shows that bFGF , unlike EGF or FGF a , does not affect gastric acid secretion or gastric blood flow , the major factors that have been implicated in mucosal protection by EGF and TGF against topical irritants . |
| 27 | One objective of the GISP2 programme , and the parallel European effort GRIP ( Greenland Icecore Project ) , is to date accurately the apparent shifts from glacial to interglacial conditions that have been observed in previous Greenland ice cores. et all . |
| 28 | ( 1981 ) ) and to note the possibility ( to be taken up shortly ) that the mechanisms responsible for the DOE may in fact be responsible for the effects that have been observed in orthodox studies of acquired distinctiveness . |
| 29 | Whether a top-down or bottom-up approach is used , this categorization , though useful in creating a structure , often obscures similarities between items that have been placed in separate categories . |
| 30 | While you can buy a 50p leaflet and walk round the town yourself , looking for the small metal footsteps that have been placed in significant sites , it 's much more rewarding to go with one of the town 's Cadfael experts , like Esme Green . |