Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most significant results of the repression in the Baltic states has been to recreate an alliance between Russian radical politicians and Baltic nationalists . |
| 2 | Degas ' sculpture is on the move : literally , in the sense that a complete set of the artist 's bronzes has been travelling the world for the past five years , turning up in Verona , Florence , Amsterdam and Japan ; metaphorically , in a sudden resurgence of interest in the sculptures themselves , after more than four decades of academic neglect . |
| 3 | A hard core of nine fell walkers has been keeping the Company flag flying across the country . |
| 4 | This web of relationships has been called the role-set . |
| 5 | But the court 's discretion under this rule only arises if the applicant has sought a declaration , an injunction or damages ; and even if one of these remedies has been claimed the court may , in cases raising complex factual issues , refuse to exercise the discretion in the applicant 's favour on the basis that it would be better if the case were started afresh by writ . |
| 6 | Perhaps the greatest mistake in the application of GIS has been to allow the glamour of the technology to distract attention from the more mundane , yet vital , aspects of data acquisition and verification . |
| 7 | Once the special character combinations had been replaced the file was iteratively refined . |
| 8 | One of the first rules of house and hall parties had been to scout the building for dark corners that might make useful retiring-places if the evening went well — preference was given to anywhere that had a lock on the inside . |
| 9 | Up to then the UK and Irish entries had been fighting a tooth and nail contest . |
| 10 | After a dress rehearsal for a Symphony Hour show , I suggested , as producer , that in the adagio movement of the main symphonic item the violins had been taking the tempo slightly too fast . |
| 11 | When all candidate content words have been assigned a score , use the Student 's t-test ( see Appendix A ) to determine whether the difference between the means of the correct-word scores and the highest-other-word scores is statistically significant . |
| 12 | First , the Velikovskians have been given the chance to make a superficially plausible claim that there is some kind of ‘ orthodox-science ’ vendetta against them and against their master' : they have been able to portray themselves as persecuted martyrs . |
| 13 | Four giant cranes have been given a lift ten miles down the River Mersey to start a new life working in the Port of Liverpool . |
| 14 | Journalists have been asking the question since he was , well , 23 . |
| 15 | Some US dairy farming organizations have been urging the FDA to ban BST for some time . |
| 16 | Now the handful of survivors have been made an offer they can not refuse : a last chance to surrender and march out , still beneath the banner of Modernism , straight into the arms of the museum culture — not as prisoners , but as co-belligerents . |
| 17 | The major industrial nations have been lowering the energy intensity of their economies since the 1970s ; the degree to which this will continue is central to any energy consumption projection . |
| 18 | ‘ The Iranians have been given a lot of leeway in the hope that they would cease to have a terrorist agenda . |
| 19 | Oil palms have been planted on a large part of the land behind the river and growers have been granted a draft permit to develop plantations along the river banks , the monkeys ' habitat , by the local land authority . |
| 20 | Thus , the published index for April 1985 is no longer a simple Laspeyres index because , since 1974 , the weights have been revised every year . |
| 21 | Police and charity commissioners investigating the disappearance of thousands of pounds of funds have been meeting the trustee who raised the alarm . |
| 22 | The Council of Science and Technology Institutes has been awarded a contract by the Employment Department to commission a major six-month study into the employment pattern of scientists . |
| 23 | THE RISE and rise of Tranmere Rovers has been given the Saint 's blessing . |
| 24 | A panel of European judges has been visiting a town carrying Britain 's hopes in Entente Florale . |
| 25 | Since mid century , philanthropists and social reformers had been urging the removal of the population of the inner-city slums to the more salubrious outskirts of the city . |
| 26 | The patrol of four unarmoured Land Rovers had been testing the safety of a Serb-held route to the northern town of Tuzla . |
| 27 | The engineers had been investigating a fault with overhead cables in the field at Bromyard in Herefordshire . |
| 28 | Some authorities have issued broad discussion documents ; others have been rather more prescriptive ( in Croydon , for example , parents have been given a checklist of skills against which to evaluate their children . |
| 29 | Parents have been promised the right to stay in hospital with their sick children at all times . |
| 30 | Parents have been promised the right to stay in hospital with their sick children at all times . |