Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 70 per cent of adult Albanians have been dismissed on ethnic grounds from jobs as various as toilet cleaners , museum curators and power plant directors . |
| 2 | The KPNLF , which has about 7,000 men , had until recently been dismissed by military analysts as a badly organised force more interested in black-market activities across the Thai-Cambodia border than military operations . |
| 3 | In the sample design programme , the effect on sampling errors of clustering the sample — usually in wards or polling districts — has been examined for different types of questions and for different population subgroups . |
| 4 | Many cultural historians have too readily appropriated literary writing as cultural documents , subduing the problems about what language actually represents which have been examined by other forms of theoretical inquiry , notably deconstruction . |
| 5 | It was , in fact , the work of his son , William , and Miller comments ‘ I was first favoured by this sort by Mr. Peter Collinson , FRS and afterwards received a plant with a drawing of it made in the country where it grows , by Mr. John Bartram , JR , and have since been furnished with more plants by Dr. Benzel of Germantown in Philadelphia , who found it growing plentifully in shady , moist places . ’ |
| 6 | Interest in the subject having thus been aroused among learned men in western Asia , a scientific institute was eventually set up in Baghdad after the Muslim conquest of much of that region . |
| 7 | The sentence of Poindexter 's former subordinate , Oliver North , had been overturned for similar reasons in July 1990 [ see p. 37605 ] , but the appellate panel now went further by refusing to allow Walsh to return to the trial judge and attempt to show that the trial testimony was not tainted , as had been permitted in North 's case . |
| 8 | I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns . |
| 9 | And the substance of my apprehension is to be found in the formidable dossiers of attainment which have been catalogued in numerous obituaries over the past week . |
| 10 | A detailed helicopter EM survey has been flown over extensive areas of the Middle Dalradian ( MEG 253 ) . |
| 11 | Kites have been flown in all cultures at all times . |
| 12 | These disciplines have been joined by many others from different fields , from Law to Business Studies , to Social Administration , to Gender Studies , to Forestry , Religious Studies and Natural Resources . |
| 13 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 14 | Meanwhile the range has been joined by seasonable designs from Miss Asher , including Santa in a chimney , a snowman and a Christmas pudding . |
| 15 | Many of these pioneer voluntary bodies still exist , and they have been joined by large numbers of organizations that have arisen in recent years to tackle the needs of particular groups among the disabled , so that voluntary effort continues to play a major part in meeting the needs of the handicapped . |
| 16 | An official announcement was expected at the end of the week , following a final meeting at Pirelli 's Milan headquarters , but it has been delayed by contractual difficulties with some of the company 's existing Italian agencies . |
| 17 | Croll managed the day to day administration of the office until he retired in 1881 by which time he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and had been honoured by learned bodies at home and abroad . |
| 18 | Two variables have been mooted as possible determinants of success in making plural reference . |
| 19 | A similar proposal to reduce forces in the Asia-Pacific region had been mooted by Soviet officials in November . |
| 20 | I have received no request for a statement , but the hon. Gentleman 's point of order will have been heard by those Ministers with responsibility for such matters . |
| 21 | ‘ At the alleged places of detention , ’ Mr Ahtisaari said , ‘ the facilities were found to have been stripped of all valuable material and not to have been inhabited for several weeks at least . ’ |
| 22 | In the past , carnivorous plants have been gathered by unscrupulous collectors from the wild ; a practice that has depleted natural stocks . |
| 23 | If sophisticated strategies such as nominalization have not so far been recognized as viable options in resolving the tension between syntax and communicative function , this does not imply that they are not viable — just that they have been largely overlooked . |
| 24 | I was fiercely proud of Scotland , having been indoctrinated by glowing tales from my Mother , and felt that the land was mine by birthright . |
| 25 | Conservative Central Office has been inundated with jittery reports from regional Tory organisers , but is banking on driving home the message to a receptive audience that a vote for the Liberal Democrats would effectively open the door of Downing Street to Mr Kinnock . |
| 26 | This month I 've been inundated with more questions about dog foods , and feeding in general . |
| 27 | Such information is of greater intelligence importance than the photographs of IRA suspects , usually given the lowest levels of security classification , which have been leaked to various newspapers in recent weeks , triggering a political row and a big police investigation . |
| 28 | Until then , because of the Ecclesiastical Exemption , which exempts churches in use from listed building controls , grants had been limited to secular buildings on the principle ‘ no control : no money ’ . |
| 29 | With an intensity comparable to the devastating bombardment of February 21st , the heavy German shells rained down on a French division of mediocre calibre , the 67th , whose experience of this kind of thing had so far been limited to second-hand accounts from across the river . |
| 30 | This assumption was universally accepted until recently by prehistorian and anthropologists , but has been refuted in recent studies of hunters and gatherers . |