Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Reports that reached Amnesty International in September and October indicated that more than 2,000 people , many of them civilians , have been rounded up in southern cities and towns and transferred to unknown destinations . |
2 | An estimated 100,000 Muslims have been cut off in eastern Bosnia since Serbs rebelled against the declaration of independence by Muslims and Croats . |
3 | Lanchester , who have been rained off in two matches this season , are at Ushaw Moor , while Sedgefield take on Tudhoe . |
4 | Carrying on from this , there is a series of demonstrations , which have been planned out in easy stages and are therefore not too daunting . |
5 | Environmental claims made for disposable nappies by their manufacturer , Proctor and Gamble , have been challenged by in independent survey commissioned by the Women 's Environmental Network ( WEN ) . |
6 | There are several ways in which assistance might be available to people who have been caught up in some of those unfortunate schemes . |
7 | The ‘ deterrent ’ compounds of many rain-forest plants are used ( and have been fought over in major wars ) by humans to flavour food , e.g. cinnamon ( bark of Cinnamomum verum , Lauraceae ) , tea ( alkaloids and tannin of Camellia sinensis , Theaceae ) leaves , ginger ( rhizome of Zingiber officinale , Zingiberaceae ) and seeds such as nutmeg ( Myristica fragrans , Myristicaceae ) , cardamom ( Elettaria cardamomum , Zingiberaceae ) , and coffee ( Coffea arabica , Rubiaceae ) , and cloves ( flower buds of Syzygium aromaticum , Myrtaceae ) . |
8 | Can we be assured that those regional representatives will reflect the political majority in those regions and will not simply be Government nominees , as we have seen in so many quangos and regional bodies that have been set up in recent years ? |
9 | Twenty phone lines have been set up in Aberconwy council 's offices to give advice to victims . |
10 | Similar associations have been set up in other counties , and already national competitions are staged . |
11 | Illegal arms and bomb factories have been set up in many parts of northern India to fuel the conflicts . |
12 | Duty rotas of guardians , who may be called upon at short notice , have been set up in many areas for this purpose . |
13 | Firms that have employed women in this way are , for example , the American concerns , the maquiladoras , that have been set up in northern Mexico near the US border . |
14 | Special police units have been set up in some areas , usually but not always staffed by women police officers . |
15 | Prior to 1974 these various activities took place in an uncoordinated manner , but , since then , budget committees have been set up in both houses . |
16 | ‘ Hitherto , their duties have been laid down in professional guidance . |
17 | As we shall see , both options have been taken up in subsequent thinking . |
18 | But for about a year certain pieces of late Roman coinage and art have been cropping up in unexpected places in the international market . |
19 | Flood-stories have been handed down in many languages from most parts of the world . |
20 | erm I find I 'm not sure that any of us can erm cope with what 's going on at the moment in the Gulf without having just ways of distracting ourselves , erm and I think that perhaps might be more of a problem for adults than it is for children , in the sense that erm most of us have access to more information than most children do erm and more information about what death means , and what suffering means , and what pain means , than erm most children who have been brought up in this country . |
21 | However , adoption studies where children of alcoholic parents have been brought up in non-alcoholic families show that genetic inheritance is a stronger predictor of addiction than is home or social background . |
22 | As a result , a whole range of measures including stricter disciplinary codes , work reorganisation and redundancies have been carried through in large numbers of firms ( Hyman and Elger , 1981 ) . |
23 | As for the social composition of the judiciary , the many surveys that have been carried out in recent years ( see Griffith , 1995 : 25 ) show the overwhelming predominance of upper-class and upper-middle-class backgrounds . |
24 | However , it is interesting to note that some of the most serious programmes in this field have been carried out in Third World countries . |
25 | Those few studies that have been carried out in free-running experiments suggest that the body clock might run slightly faster . |
26 | Where research studies have been carried out in different parts of the country it is difficult to disentangle anything which might be attributed to regional variations specifically , from other systematic variations by gender , class , ethnicity or variations over time ( that is where changes in patterns of family relationships have occurred between the 1960s and the 1980s ) . |
27 | Surveys of T. canis prevalence in dogs have been carried out in most countries and have shown a wide range of infection rates , from 5% to over 80% . |
28 | In fact Peasgood suggests , in one of the few surveys which have been carried out in this area , that selection in academic libraries from the ‘ book in hand ’ was found to be no more effective than selection from lists ( effectiveness being measured in terms of subsequent issues ) . |
29 | Numerous MEG supported projects have been carried out in this area , especially by Noranda-Kerr , and all data are available on Open File . |
30 | In its report , based on the findings of a team which visited the country in March , Amnesty said that " victims have been gunned down in public , and taken away , tortured and killed in secret " . |