Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem of lack of time has been eased to some degree by the setting up of communal kitchens like those in Lima , Peru . |
| 2 | The struggle for Cyprus had been eased by British acceptance of the Sovereign Base concept , though the Zurich Agreement between Greece and Turkey , which enabled Britain to grant Cyprus its independence , was not signed until February 1959 . |
| 3 | Gen. V. Dovgan , a senior military-industrial administrator , had been dismissed and stripped of his rank after it had been revealed that he informally approved the sale of the tanks to ANT , and Deputy Aviation Industry Minister Anatoly Bratukhin had been dismissed for gross violation of arms export regulations . |
| 4 | The enemy 's base , a disused farmhouse , has been examined in great detail by an earlier reconnaissance patrol and everyone knows , in theory at least , how to reach it and What to do on arrival . |
| 5 | Magritte 's career has not been examined in such detail in Britain since Sylvester curated a smaller and more exclusive exhibition for the Tate Gallery in 1969 . |
| 6 | The accident records at these schools have been examined in considerable detail by the Departments of Highways and Education and the Police and four areas have been highlighted for further action and detailed investigation . |
| 7 | The attempt had been strengthened by the respect and admiration for Russian arms that had been aroused by Russian resistance on the eastern front . |
| 8 | Forty per cent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years . |
| 9 | The appointment of the Cabinet had been delayed by intense rivalry for places between Samakkhi Tham and Chart Thai . |
| 10 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 11 | They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love . |
| 12 | A Staff Committee had been mooted as one way of overcoming these difficulties . |
| 13 | When operating with 112 Squadron FX760 was regularly flown by ‘ A ’ Flight Commander F/L R A Wild DFC , an Australian , who had been posted to 112 Squadron from 3 RAAF Squadron on June 1 , 1944 . |
| 14 | A 13 year old boy from Kent described as ‘ borderline autistic ’ reported to his mother that he had been buggered by another pupil at his residential school . |
| 15 | A sepoy with a green turban had had his spine shattered by The Spirit of Science ; others had been struck down by teaspoons , by fish-knives , by marbles ; an unfortunate subadar had been plucked from this world by the silver sugar-tongs embedded in his brain . |
| 16 | Extensive stretches of the walls of his nave have been traced on each side of the existing nave , although we do not yet know if it had an aisle along each flank . |
| 17 | Quality Circles have received a lot of attention in the media over the last three years but , in general , studies of Circles have so far been limited to subjective analysis by interested parties . |
| 18 | One of the factors influencing the career decisions of professionals is opportunity for career advancement , which has been limited in this field until recently . |
| 19 | The situation has been publicised since last year by the relief agencies and others , but the UN was slow to get involved . |
| 20 | In practice micro-corporatism of this sort has only been undertaken with any consistency by local government and their agencies ( such as the enterprise boards ) or by the development agencies ( see , for example , Greater London Council ( 1985 ) and Murray ( 1987 ) ) . |
| 21 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 22 | Older embryos and more extended cultures benefit from a rotating system and , judging from the experience with rat embryos , the same is probably true for primitive streak stage embryos , although no direct comparison between static and rotating culture systems has been undertaken at this stage in the mouse . |
| 23 | Such ties have been placed under great strain as the result of urbanization and the arising of great inequalities within society , inequalities which have been mirrored within society , inequalities which have been mirrored within many families . |
| 24 | A farm in Norfolk has been placed under strict quarantine after the discovery of rhizomania or ‘ root madness ’ , which attacks sugar and other beet crops , reducing the yield . |
| 25 | In recent years , a great deal of emphasis has been placed on technological progress as a cause of structural unemployment . |
| 26 | My right cheek has certainly been placed with admirable exactness under the focus of some invisible burning-glass , which concentrated all the rays of a Tartarean sun . |
| 27 | A matron has been placed in temporary charge of the home . |
| 28 | Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that there will be outrage tonight in my constituency and in that of my hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk , East ( Mr. Ewing ) at his betrayal of the trust that has been placed in that hospital by the people in its care ? |
| 29 | It starts at the bottom line and scans across to ‘ see ’ what colours have been placed in this row of squares . |
| 30 | That 's now been placed in proper context by the arrival of Samantha as Head of Communications , as Judy said earlier on , we 're already beginning to enjoy the fruits of her skills , in the presentation surely you 're seeing today . |