Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 HUNDREDS of signatures have been collected in a petition calling for swift action on the Skelton and Brotton Hospital .
3 The two economies distinctive and incompatible needs have been recognised in a development that has occurred since the committee met .
4 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 .
5 More people are now facing committal proceedings and prison sentences have been imposed in a handful of cases .
6 The arrangements for the transition have been announced in a letter from to college principals .
7 Further improvements in graphics handling include the ability to manipulate both TIFF and paint images after they have been placed in a publication .
8 Top : These roses have been placed in a pot of water prior to being pressed gradually as the petals open .
9 Epictetus said that we have been placed in a festival and we must enjoy it and be full of delight in it .
10 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 } .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 A tradition implies continuity , and the historical origins of collectivism have been traced in a variety of ways .
15 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 ;
16 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 .
17 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 ! ’
18 The effects of reducing sleep on sleep patterns have been studied in a number of relatively short experiments , and one which went on for two years .
19 S 459 of the Companies Act 1985 provides that if a company 's affairs are being or have been conducted in a manner which is unfairly prejudicial to the company 's interests , then the members may obtain relief through the courts .
20 It is asking readers to say if they have been misrepresented in a programme , to ‘ expose the tricks and deception used by TV to deliberately mislead people ’ .
21 Two main fields of psychotherapy ( behavioural/cognitive and relationship-oriented ) have been compared in a project with managerial and professional workers experiencing clinical levels of depressive or anxiety symptoms and occupational strain .
22 Since then the calculations have been repeated in a number of different forms by other people .
23 Two people have been killed in a crash between a car and lorry which completely blocked a main road for five hours .
24 A BRITISH bride and her husband have been killed in a helicopter crash during their honeymoon in Hawaii .
25 A mother and daughter have been killed in a head on collision .
26 Almost eighty people have been killed in a toy factory fire in China and site workers from Middlebrook Mushrooms marched through Selby to mark the first anniversary of their dispute .
27 Four members of one family , including a mother and baby , have been killed in a road accident in Norfolk .
28 Two members of an all-girl singing group have been killed in a motorway crash , just days before their television debut .
29 Two members of a singing group have been killed in a motorway crash , just days before their television debut .
30 Ten holidaymakers from Canada and the United States have been killed in a coach crash on the M-Two in Kent .
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