Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please recall how I 've been penned in a sanctum on a planet for most of my days . |
| 2 | For house physician John Bery , the day begins at Cheltenham General Hospital when he puts on a pedometer.He 's one of a group of doctors who 've been helping in a survey of the distances covered while on duty.Soon Dr Bery is heading for a ward at the opposite end of the hospital.It 's the first of many long walks along the corridors during the day.The problem at Cheltenham general is identical to many other hospitals … where an old Victorian block has been extended with newer buildings forcing doctors to travel great distances from department to department . |
| 3 | You forget everything you 've been taught in a flash . |
| 4 | All we would like to do in the lab is make that same compound in a different way , and many of the compounds which are used are the same as those found in nature , the only difference is they 've been prepared in a test tube instead of being prepared in a plant . |
| 5 | Brighter are so deeply drippy that they make Blueboy look like the English Metallica , Brighter sound like they 've been locked in a bedroom for the past six years and are still trying to come up with that ‘ C86 ’ audition tape . |
| 6 | You 've been sitting in a side road waiting to come out , and you see a vehicle coming along and it 's got its left-hand indicator on and you think Oh lovely ! |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been working in a hotel since I left school — up until the flood that was . |
| 8 | It 'll be alright cos they 've been sealed in a plastic bag |
| 9 | I 've been to work in a bicycle shop . ’ |
| 10 | Gwen will be thinking I 've been put in a dungeon . |
| 11 | These relations have been examined in a cohort of 46000 women followed for up to 19 years during the Royal College of General Practitioners ' ( RCFP ) oral contraception study . |
| 12 | Several chimeric plasminogen activators , consisting of various portions of t-PA and urokinase-type-PA , have been constructed in an effort to combine the mechanisms of fibrin-selectivity of both molecules . |
| 13 | HUNDREDS of signatures have been collected in a petition calling for swift action on the Skelton and Brotton Hospital . |
| 14 | The two economies distinctive and incompatible needs have been recognised in a development that has occurred since the committee met . |
| 15 | Once these listings have been prepared in a VMS file ( user specified ) , option 1.5.3 — Grant / Deny Approval To Package can be used to approve the package . |
| 16 | More people are now facing committal proceedings and prison sentences have been imposed in a handful of cases . |
| 17 | The arrangements for the transition have been announced in a letter from to college principals . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , hundreds more job losses have been announced in an area which has already suffered heavily from the recession . |
| 19 | Further improvements in graphics handling include the ability to manipulate both TIFF and paint images after they have been placed in a publication . |
| 20 | Top : These roses have been placed in a pot of water prior to being pressed gradually as the petals open . |
| 21 | Epictetus said that we have been placed in a festival and we must enjoy it and be full of delight in it . |
| 22 | Shortly afterwards , the Northern Ireland army press office issued the statement : About eighteen shots have been fired in an incident in which security forces were not involved . |
| 23 | Most recently to date have been experiments on ammonia gas resonantly pumped by CO2 lasers , in which good modulation , and chaos , have been observed in a system which comes close to Ikeda 's original proposal { 18 , 19 } . |
| 24 | Similar decreases in heart disease mortality and stroke mortality have been observed in a variety of different countries ( Smith and Jacobson 1988 ) , although the decreases observed in the United Kingdom have been less dramatic than those recorded in some other countries . |
| 25 | Since St Pierre , though , nuees have been observed in a number of different eruptions , and in a great many of them they are linked with the construction of a lava dome . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A tradition implies continuity , and the historical origins of collectivism have been traced in a variety of ways . |
| 28 | companies in whose equity share capital dealings have been advertised in a newspaper on a regular basis for a continuous period of at least 6 months in the 10 years prior to the relevant date ; |
| 29 | The Code also applies to offers for private companies so resident where : ( 1 ) their equity share capital has been listed on the London Stock Exchange at any time in the ten years before the relevant date ; ( 2 ) dealings in their equity share capital have been advertised in a newspaper on a regular basis for a continuous period of at least six months in the ten years prior to the relevant date ; ( 3 ) their equity share capital has been the subject of a marketing arrangement as described in CA 1985 , s163(2) ( b ) ( eg on the USM ) at any time in the ten years prior to the relevant date ; or ( 4 ) the company has filed a prospectus for the issue of equity share capital at the Companies Registry at any time in the ten years before the relevant date . |
| 30 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |