Example sentences of "[vb base] been [vb pp] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . |
2 | THE glow of recognition will be sweet for those who have been singled out in the New Year Honours list . |
3 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
4 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
5 | Local tradition maintains that over the centuries , pieces of ancient armour and weapons have been ploughed up in the area In 1796 , a carved stone was unearthed near the burial mound but its whereabouts is now unknown . |
6 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
7 | Once again the officers have taken over the ship by some nifty footwork , and the mutineers have been battened down in the fo'csle . |
8 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
9 | Responding to other free-trade zones that have been set up in the region , Bolivia , Colombia , Venezuela , Peru and Ecuador will progressively reduce tariffs and other regional trade barriers . |
10 | The first ‘ tent cities ’ for a few thousand people have been set up in the plain near Zakho . |
11 | Through the development of disused buildings on the refinery site and a £500,000 loan fund , 170 small businesses have been set up in the area , employing 1,200 local people . |
12 | Temporary facilities have been set up in the Union Street car park because the depot was reduced to a heap of rubble in Sunday evening 's IRA bomb . |
13 | Our proposals for developing this policy have been set out in the White Papers on ‘ Competing for Quality ’ in central and local government . |
14 | It surely can not be thought coincidental that these precise geometric patterns have been set out in the Wiltshire countryside . |
15 | For instance , millions have been laid off in the construction industry . |
16 | Outside , the gardens have been laid out in the Italian style , with wide staircases from level to level , which should look spectacular when more mature . |
17 | Most of these options have been taken up in the days of the controversies over Christology . |
18 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
19 | If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved . |
20 | Most of these options have been closed out in the last two decades . |
21 | Recent surveys have been carried out in the United States by Hardesty ( 1978 ) and in the UK by Malley and Moys ( 1982 ) . |
22 | Further field investigations have been carried out in the Orissa region of India . |
23 | Most studies on the management control process have been carried out in the private sector with profit-orientated organizations . |
24 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
25 | 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 . |