Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They put their trust in a military solution to right the wrong that had been done in 1688 , and looked to France for help .
2 Our local starling population is a race apart in that they are non-migratory and have been isolated in the islands for long enough to have developed their own characteristics .
3 GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework .
4 The volume of complaint about the difficulties encountered by pedestrians is certainly high and has been recorded in a number of surveys in recent years .
5 The overall electron transfer from the anion is particularly high and has been calculated at approximately 0.8e .
6 Gazzer was twenty-two years old and had been compared in looks to a pit bull , entirely to the dog 's advantage .
7 The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison .
8 I am twenty years old and have been educated in Britain .
9 Some of the vellum bound books are nearly 400 years old and have been read by successive generations of Oxford students .
10 When the VDU is free and has been allocated to the current Offline run , the Offline System will present a display similar to that shown in Figure 2.1 .
11 He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox .
12 The ideal osmotic control for ethanol is distilled water and not hypertonic glucose or saline as has been used in some studies .
13 The nearest thing to a conjuring trick was the new bell-push that had been fitted under the carpet for Mrs Iverson . ’
14 Stone recurrence after extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is expected to be similar and has been reported as 9% in the first year .
15 Suppose , for example , a text ( such as the Bestiary : thirteenth century , East Anglia ) exhibits 3rd singular verb-form variation in -es , -ep ( such as standes , standep ) and syncopated forms ( such as stant ) : this may indicate that the text is composite and has been copied by scribes from different dialect areas ( for discussions of these scribal questions , see especially McIntosh , Samuels and Benskin , 1986 ; Laing , 1989 ; McIntosh and Wakelin , 1989 ) .
16 According to a recent Hollywood Reporter piece , the Runt is currently labelless but has been working on a project which has been hailed as the first interactive album .
17 The central block was originally Jacobean but had been gothicised in the late eighteenth century .
18 It 's all part of a commitment by Central to subtitle as many programmes as possible and has been welcomed by campaigners for an improved service for the deaf and hard of hearing .
19 Some £75,000-worth is still thought to be outstanding and has been traced to Germany , Syria , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait and Jordan .
20 In particular , the fossil Anatolepis , which first occurs in the Upper Cambrian and has been interpreted as the dermal scales of a heterostracan fish , is more likely to have belonged to an arthropod .
21 Sister Marcus said Mr Francis was rather poorly and had been moved from the Seriously Ill to the Dangerously Ill List .
22 Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God .
23 So once again its , its , its your responsibility to complain about the ill that has been done to you , yes .
24 The little that has been written about private health care in developing countries suggests great variations among doctors and countries .
25 Well Tony Primmer 's an Australian and has been riding at Eastbourne and we were looking at him prior to this erm sort of amalgamation that came in because erm with our friendship with Bob Dugard , and looking for younger riders , he was sort of earmarked to come here at some stage .
26 Many of the problems associated with the uncontrolled access to farmland are long-standing and have been enshrined in the Country Code , the list of ‘ do 's and don'ts ’ concerning open gates , litter , dogs which worry livestock , fire risks and so on .
27 This draft response indicates which DTAC responses he has taken into account , and any member whose DTAC 's response has arrived late or has been omitted for some other reason can ensure that relevant points are not missed .
28 Such help is more complex than has been conveyed by my observations of the student 's work with John .
29 It is also very effective and has been practised in Holland for centuries .
30 Ebenezer Scrooge would appear to be alive and well and has been reincarnated in the guise of the Court of Bank of Ireland .
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