Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smiling broadly , and displaying the naughty element of her nature , which had been hidden previously behind the candy-coated exterior , she teased reporters . |
| 2 | These have been hidden here by a little firm , and I think I know whose it was ! ’ |
| 3 | So far as observation and knowledge of the world is concerned , the beliefs of the northern peoples have been dismissed equally by the Russian Orthodox Church and by the Communists as benighted superstition which imprisoned them mentally in a fear of evil spirits . |
| 4 | The differential impact of national and industry environmental forces upon the structure , process and outcomes of industrial relations have been examined empirically for the important metalworking industry across five countries . |
| 5 | The east-west road has only been examined once since the 1920s , during excavations on the west gate , where it evidently comprised three separate surfaces ; the latest ( road III ) can probably be identified with Jack and Hayter 's later roadway ; the middle one ( II ) was contemporary with the mid fourth-century gate and may be a localized resurfacing ; while the lowest ( I ) must represent the east-west route in the preceding centuries . |
| 6 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 7 | Hu Jiwei had been recalled earlier by the Sichuan provincial people 's congress for his " illegal role in the turmoil " of May and June 1989 when he had attempted to call an emergency meeting of the NPC Standing Committee . |
| 8 | The dishwasher has been tucked away in the central island and is opposite the main sink , so dishes can be quickly rinsed and put out of sight . |
| 9 | The subsurface form of the thrust zone has now been traced eastwards to the northern Rhenish Massif of Germany where it was described by Meissner , Bartelsen , and Murawski ( 1981 ) as a strong reflector 3.4 km deep , dipping slightly to the south-southeast ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 10 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 11 | Previous study of colonic pressures in paediatric patients has been limited mainly to the rectosigmoid area , because of relative inaccessibility of the proximal colon . |
| 12 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 13 | An earlier attempt had been withdrawn immediately after the 19 October 1987 Wall Street crash . |
| 14 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 15 | Economic questions have been left largely to social policy analysts to look at , and much of their writing has been placed squarely within a radical framework often described by the term ‘ the political economy of ageing ’ . |
| 16 | It was followed by a lunch party at a local restaurant where the tables had been placed outside in the cobbled square . |
| 17 | In recent years , employment prospects have been excellent and geographers have been placed successfully in a wide range of employment in research , industry , commerce , government , and the professions , either entering directly or by using their first degrees as a foundation for further qualifications . |
| 18 | On the village green is a stone block said to have been placed there by a local lord of short stature , to help him mount his horse . |
| 19 | Marginal plants , as their name implies , grow in the shallow water at the pool 's edge and can either be grown in planting baskets , like waterlilies , or in soil that has been placed directly on the marginal shelf . |
| 20 | It looked like Postine had been crushed instantly by the collapsing temple . |
| 21 | I have argued elsewhere that these ideological failures have been compounded firstly by a reductive conception of culture and secondly by a culturalist conception of race and ethnic identity ( Gilroy , 1987 ) . |
| 22 | The techniques referred to in the revised manual appear to have been developed particularly after the inner-city riots of 1981 . |
| 23 | The miracle accounts have been developed both by the early Church and the Evangelists to say something important about Jesus . |
| 24 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 25 | Its 1,360cc four-cylinder engine , mated to a five-speed gearbox , is new , having been developed specially for the new generation of AXs from the mainstream-car petrol engine . |
| 26 | As Marx ( 1989 ) has discussed , the science of genetic engineering has been developed only since the 1940s and especially since the 1970s , but its origins really began with the efforts of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel who , in the mid-nineteenth century , established the principles of heredity . |
| 27 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 28 | While this treatment remains at the experimental stage , may I suggest that the logical position is that prospective patients who have been referred onward by the general practitioner and consultant should be selected — probably by Professor Hitchcock himself — and financed centrally as part of the experimental budget ? |
| 29 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 30 | Some letters might have been regarded even in the late sixth century as being historically important ; the first two , which are among the earliest in the collection , are letters from Remigius , bishop of Rheims , to Clovis , the first Christian king of the Franks . |