Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The automatic recognition of word meanings has been demonstrated in a number of experimental investigations . |
| 2 | The decay of Britain 's roads has been reflected in a sharp increase in central government 's spending on road maintenance . |
| 3 | ONE of the principal components of the German question , and of the entire European situation , is the recognition of the fact that the question of European borders has been solved in a definitive and irrevocable manner . |
| 4 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 5 | During the OAS visit the dead bodies of three known Aristide supporters had been found in a Port-au-Prince morgue . |
| 6 | And in their survey of 9–13 middle schools , the HMI argued that work was of a higher standard where there was a greater use of subject teachers , and where those subjects had been studied in a major way in higher education by the teachers concerned . |
| 7 | Refugees fleeing Iraq said on Feb. 13 that some 30 Jordanians had been killed in a recent missile attack on a civilian bus travelling on the Iraq-Kuwait border . |
| 8 | It is rough , black , about four feet high and three feet wide , and huge iron spikes have been hammered in a ring around the top . |
| 9 | Over four hundred carpet designs have been illustrated in a new brochure which now forms part of the sales aids used by the Contract Sales Force . |
| 10 | High buckminsterfullerene yields have been obtained in a heated pulsed laser vaporization where there is no continuous source of new small radicals as there might be from the arc . |
| 11 | Disappearance of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies after treatment with corticosteroids has been reported in a small number of patients . |
| 12 | Both Isobel 's parents had been killed in a motor accident , and Peter Dawson had obtained leave from his unit in France to attend their funeral in Wales . |
| 13 | It was as though the unwanted debris from a dozen mansions had been dumped in a single , overcrowded space . |
| 14 | Talks between the ISA , IWSRA and the Provincial associations have been held in a bid to formulate a new constitution together with a set of policies and financial implications for the new body which will be known as Irish Squash . |
| 15 | Measures to make firms more accountable to their clients in non-reserved functions have been proposed in a recent Institute report . |
| 16 | Flows of people from metropolitan to non-metropolitan areas have been observed in a number of developed countries in recent years , and the term ‘ counter-urbanization ’ has been applied to this process ( Berry 1976 ; Bryant et al . |
| 17 | Transverse effects have been examined in a few instances . |
| 18 | Consequently just as in competition policy , EC policy on state aids has been drafted in a way designed to take account of this dichotomy . |
| 19 | David Tinyefusa as saying that 150 of those arrested were " confirmed rebels " and that at least 180 rebels had been killed in a battle with troops on May 7 at Padibe , 40 km north of Gulu . |
| 20 | For a time , when she first took to the seclusion of the Lodge , days had been wasted in a sort of restless grief , but it had passed , resentment fell away , and gradually he found his way back into his own strength . |
| 21 | What had really occurred was that the Hollywood style had been updated and a large number of films had been located in a more contemporary urban setting . |
| 22 | In the 1980s , following on government cuts in finance , British universities have been engaged in a desperate scramble for overseas students and the more-or-less economic fees they are required to pay . |
| 23 | The two economies distinctive and incompatible needs have been recognised in a development that has occurred since the committee met . |
| 24 | If 3 waiting days have been served in a PIW no waiting days will be served in a later linked PIW . |
| 25 | If less than 3 waiting days have been served in a PIW only the balance of waiting days will remain to be served in a later linked PIW . |
| 26 | The methodologies used by the SPRU workers have been described in a major review article by Martin & Irvine ( 1983 ) . |
| 27 | In particular , life events of certain kinds have been implicated in a wide range of disorder , and some of the evidence to establish their role has been described in earlier chapters . |
| 28 | Since then the calculations have been repeated in a number of different forms by other people . |
| 29 | Conversely , rows of phosphatic sclerites similar to those of palaeoscolecidans have been found in a Burgess Shale priapulid ( Fig. 4 d ) . |
| 30 | The pond , sluices and some of the buildings can be seen today , but the majority of the surviving buildings have been incorporated in a private home . |