Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally it has been recognized that the largest concentrations of first-class villas often clustered around the small towns in preference to major towns or cities . |
| 2 | It has been recognized that the European Directives are increasingly affecting what happens in the workplace . |
| 3 | Rusted hooks hung from antiquated iron girders above him , the windows had long since been vandalized and the faded walls were daubed with obscene graffiti . |
| 4 | It has been calculated that the 1½-inch quills penetrate tissue in this way at a rate of an inch a day . |
| 5 | The old political domination of governing bodies has largely been broken and a typical governors ' meeting is a business session not a social occasion . |
| 6 | If the wording of a trust has been omitted and the other provisions accord with what ought to have been written , by analogy with institution as heir and with legacies a trust will be understood to be duly given and insufficiently expressed in writing . |
| 7 | As in the use of any chart of this type , parents must not remove stickers once they have been earned and no black marks should be given for wet beds . |
| 8 | Romania and Serbia had been subdued and the Central Powers now had direct access to their allies Bulgaria and Turkey . |
| 9 | It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse . |
| 10 | More historical information on the breweries has been added and the tasting panels have once more been out and about finalising their tasting notes . |
| 11 | What happened , though , was he ordered one of the captains on a dangerous mission-just how dangerous I knew — on which he 'd been wounded and the young wives had n't forgiven her for it . |
| 12 | Many of these could have been prevented if the right measures were available and used correctly . ’ |
| 13 | It has been noticed that a few teachers have still to pay their Society membership for 1981 … |
| 14 | It has been noticed that the six figures whose naked torsos are seen all show an extra horizontal line in the abdominal muscles , a feature which does not occur in the Niobid picture or elsewhere in the painter 's work . |
| 15 | The success of the second petition had turned on the fact that it included the signatures of the professors of the two schools — Sewell , Spooner and Simonds for London and Dick for Edinburgh — but no sooner had the Charter been granted than the two schools were in dispute with the Royal College . |
| 16 | The double-headed defeat of the Boks sent shock-waves through the sporting community — i.e. most of white South Africa — the magnitude of which had n't been felt since the 1974 Lions demolished the myth of Afrikaner rugby supremacy . |
| 17 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 18 | It had been conceded that the two forms of cocaine were chemically different and had different physical properties . |
| 19 | It has also been argued that the small mouths of the giants simply could not have downed enough food to support a warm-blooded metabolism , particularly plant food that needs a lot of processing before it becomes available as energy . |
| 20 | It has been argued that the higher professionals primarily serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful . |
| 21 | In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey . |
| 22 | But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) . |
| 23 | Yet it has already been argued that the marginal costs of the good will be a function of the number of people in the community , and therefore , relate to different numbers ( e.g. 100 , 200 , 300 residents in the community ) . |
| 24 | It has been argued that the primitive features are innate , and the tendency to make binary oppositions is natural to human cognition . |
| 25 | It is difficult to assess the effects of the first true humans in rain forests but it has been argued that the Australian aborigines may have been responsible for the removal of some of the Araucaria forest of tropical Queensland , leading to the advance of Eucalyptus there , as well as locally exterminating much of the megafauna . |
| 26 | The Dearing Committee 's recommendations had been accepted and the new Companies Act saw the creation of the independent Financial Reporting Council with its own Review Panel . |
| 27 | A recent scrutiny by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission commented favourably on the changes that have already been wrought and the further developments that are under way . |
| 28 | Preston Cro Crown Court has been told that the two boys accused of murdering the Merseyside toddler James Bulger each blamed the other for attacking the child . |
| 29 | If he had been told that the prime sources of his immense and , mathematically , infinitely expanding wealth were invariably polluted with the deceits and bad faith of exploitation , cruelty , oppression , barbarism , murder and vicious wrongdoing , he would have been at first amazed , then outraged and finally contemptuous , disbelieving the information . |
| 30 | The ‘ Kalisco ’ had already been sold when the new tugs were delivered . |