Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Thai bronze figure of the Walking Buddha , which had been catalogued as dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and estimated at £25,000-£30,000 , turned out to have been made within the last 150 years . |
| 2 | What we have seen in the 1980s is a process by which poverty has been redefined as to do with the ‘ inner city ’ . |
| 3 | Deaths from asthma in various regions have risen by 30-60 per cent over the last decade , and one in seven children have now been diagnosed as suffering from the condition . |
| 4 | The meaning of ‘ insolvent ’ has already been considered when dealing with the seller 's lien . |
| 5 | Sufism in today 's Africa , with its saint worship and magical practices , has been presented as doomed in the path of modernisation : such an assessment is to be seriously questioned here . |
| 6 | More curiously still , by promoting the figure of Charlemagne , Otto has also been seen as contributing to the creation of the French state : ‘ The notion that there was such a country as France , at a time when the royal authority was very little recognised outside the narrow boundaries of the royal domain , the Île de France , was fostered by the legend of Charlemagne . ’ |
| 7 | The important meetings had taken place in the East , and though very few representatives of the Western Churches had , attended , the canons had been accepted as binding upon the whole Christian world . |
| 8 | The alleged contraventions of section 57 consist of the publication of investment advertisements whose contents had not been approved as required by the Act . |
| 9 | Seven years after the Americans bombed Libya , a veteran peace campaigner has been arrested while protesting at the airbase used for the raid . |
| 10 | The primary and secondary windings of the transformer have been interlinked as shown in the circuit diagram , such that the twin 120V primary windings are in series , making the transformer suitable for domestic 240V mains operation . |
| 11 | Cases considered during the past year have been concluded as shown in the panel . |
| 12 | Kenneth Orbinson , an Ulster Television cameraman , gave evidence at the trial of those arrested on 5 October : he said that he had been sprayed while filming from the window of a flat in Duke Street ; but his film was not admitted as evidence . |
| 13 | Two other changes in the nature of the court 's work had been identified as contributing to the failure to reduce lead times . |
| 14 | A large number of factors have been identified as contributing to the development of childhood psychiatric disorder in some way . |
| 15 | Sugar conformations and glycosidic rotation angles have been estimated as described in the legend to Table 1 . |
| 16 | An employee had been electrocuted when working on the magnetron assembly line of the company 's Thornaby-on-Tees factory , which was engaged in another stage of the microwave oven manufacturing process , when he had come into contact with exposed conductors . |
| 17 | Some aspects of the nature of the site have already been discussed when looking at the effect of the building regulations . |
| 18 | The gharial has evolved the most extraordinarily long , slim , almost beak-like jaws , which have been described as looking like the handle of a saucepan . |
| 19 | Had this book been written in 1964 , for example , the responsibilities of the Department of Health and Social Security would have been described as coming under the Ministry of Health , the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance , and the National Assistance Board . |
| 20 | Poor breeding in wet , cold springs ; clear-felling of Scots pine forests ; the proliferation of dense sitka spruce plantations ; and over-shooting have all been suggested as contributing to the capercaillie 's retreat . |