Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 9 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
| 10 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
| 11 | There were little spots of cement all along the top , where the railings had been torn out in the war . |
| 12 | Uniplex founder , Peter Osbourn , and finance director Dave Jennings have been squeezed out in the re-shuffle , and Patrick Regester , previously head of Uniplex 's international operations division has been appointed managing director , reporting to Amos . |
| 13 | As Dillon LJ pointed out in R & B Custom Brokers : … there are some transactions which are clearly integral parts of the businesses concerned , and these should be held to have been carried out in the course of those businesses ; this would cover , apart from much else , the instance of a one-off adventure in the nature of trade , where the transaction itself would constitute a trade or business . |
| 14 | How is it possible that what will prove to be an act of technological genocide has been carried out in the name of international law ? |
| 15 | Recent surveys have been carried out in the United States by Hardesty ( 1978 ) and in the UK by Malley and Moys ( 1982 ) . |
| 16 | Much of the detailed analysis of the role of pressure groups in the policy-making process has been carried out in the United States . |
| 17 | Throughout the 20th century biomedical and biological research on animals has been carried out in the University of Oxford . |
| 18 | Although little detailed research has been carried out in the UK on the effects of financial innovation and structural change upon the appropriate conduct of monetary control , it appears that there is a consensus opinion that the effects of financial change necessitate that monetary policy be conducted in a discretionary manner . |
| 19 | In the past , most afforestation has been carried out in the uplands . |
| 20 | And I think it 's worth s er reading out that the Civic Society have asked er Betty in Arundel to write to us in order to express their appreciation of the work that 's been carried out in the church free car park . |
| 21 | However , relatively little detailed exploration , especially drilling , has been carried out in the Lake District or Snowdonia . |
| 22 | Addressing a special session of the Cortes ( parliament ) on Feb. 1 , Alfonso Guerra , who at no time condoned his brother 's alleged activities , acknowledged that Juan had used the government office but said that this was because he was helping him as deputy secretary of the PSOE , and he denied that private activities had been carried out in the office in his presence or with his knowledge . |
| 23 | Language tests had been carried out in the breach rather than the observance . |
| 24 | In a somewhat terse paper — it being considered that the more substantial analysis of principles had been carried out in the HMI document A View of the Curriculum — it was maintained that throughout the period of compulsory schooling , from 5–16 , all pupils should undertake study in English , mathematics , science , religious education , and physical education . |
| 25 | Further field investigations have been carried out in the Orissa region of India . |
| 26 | The West German Finance Minister , Mr Theo Waigel , ruled out a common German currency until economic reforms had been carried out in the East . |
| 27 | Of course , much survey and exploratory work on the North Sea Oil fields had been carried out in the years previous to our patrols . |
| 28 | Little mineral exploration has been carried out in the area which is poorly exposed except in coastal sections . |
| 29 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 30 | Yet we also have the example of Robert Ferguson , the Whig plotter who had been mixed up in the Rye House intrigues and Monmouth 's Rebellion . |