Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The march of the matriarchal society may have been stopped here in the United Kingdom , but it is but a temporary halt , a moment in time . |
| 2 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 3 | He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach . |
| 4 | All the mail handled at Aberdeen carries the city 's postmark and the letter bombs could have been posted anywhere in the area . |
| 5 | As had been realised already in the model experiments , a rotor ship would not make full use of a wind blowing directly from astern . |
| 6 | Carlson was aware of conflicting reports : that Bourbollon had been assassinated earlier in the day ; that he had committed suicide rather than face capture by freedom fighters . |
| 7 | However , it must be remembered that much of the work until these last few weeks has been undertaken outside in the kind of conditions experienced by most preservationists . |
| 8 | The balance has been placed mostly in the Philippines and Indonesia . |
| 9 | Might it have been placed here in the temple by the rulers to inspire the religion of the herd ? |
| 10 | Apparently it had been placed there in the pre-dawn . |
| 11 | The 67 children who had reached maturity at the time of this study tended to have been diagnosed earlier in the decade than those still growing . |
| 12 | It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them . |
| 13 | The use of CAI in library instruction has been developed largely in the USA . |
| 14 | Other triterpenoids such as oleanolic acid ( 2 ) 4 ( Calendula ) , ursolic acid ( 3 ) 5 ( Psychotria adenophylla ) , taxaxerol ( 4 ) 5 ( Taraxacum officinale ) , lupeol acetate ( 5 ) 5 ( Spilanthes ocymifolia ) and sericic acid and it glycoside sericoside ( 6 ) 6 ( Terminalia sericea ) have antiulcer properties but these compounds have not been developed commercially in the West . |
| 15 | In retrospect , she said , the Budget could have been a great deal worse for disabled people considering what issues had been bandied about in the media recently . |
| 16 | Any ice left after the previous day 's racing had been broken conclusively in the scenes out in the station , and the party had already gelled and was in full swing . |
| 17 | The scapula and pelvis were broken , but they may have been broken already in the pellet . |
| 18 | Her face , her jaw had been implanted too in the Callidus laboratory … |
| 19 | The law governing corners had been amended earlier in the year to allow such goals . |
| 20 | The plaintiffs , that is the Lebanon , Croatia and Hungary , will be anxious to see those parts of Sotheby 's evidence which had been blacked out in the documents made available to them , and then only shown to the court . |
| 21 | Viola 's voice had that organ note of the English landed aristocracy , though in her case it had been formed not in the hunting-fields , but on the lonely , sheep expanses of her native land . |
| 22 | I think the one clear thing to come out from my study is that erm with very careful preparation and with adequate thought about teaching methods that a school can successfully go over to mixed ability teaching without any necessary impact on the standards of performance of the pupils , and this has really been justified recently in the O level results of pupils who have now been through the mixed ability system and finished their O levels in the school . |
| 23 | With cereal-based foods , fibre value depends to a large degree on how much has been stripped away in the milling and refining processes . |
| 24 | Various mutations in both oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes have been implicated heavily in the development of cancer . |
| 25 | Several sample orders have been received particularly in the food and drink sector for products such as whisky , smoked salmon , chocolate , honey and shortbread . |
| 26 | In addition , the infilling of the East and West Old Dock had been completed early in the year while 5 hectares of foreshore at Seafield was reclaimed by the Authority on behalf of Edinburgh Corporation . |
| 27 | If it be conceded that the need for legal advice arises from the existence of a legal problem , the difficulties in meeting that need would appear to have been exposed earlier in the chapter . |
| 28 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 29 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 30 | ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again . |