Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the welcome which we have been given here exceeds all others . |
| 2 | The group runs workshops where the women watch videos and then hold discussion groups and where they have been taught how to make simple handicrafts . |
| 3 | The 1976 act had been designed not to diminish existing rights but to expand them . |
| 4 | Moreover the tendency during the present century has been to create broadly defined criminal offences ( such as theft ) , with a sufficiently generous maximum to cater for the worst contingency . |
| 5 | The department said it had been decided not to invite competing tenders for Norcross because the contract award , worth between £17 million and £20 million over five years , followed so quickly the tendering exercise for Livingston that competition would have been ‘ unlikely to yield any improvement in value for money ’ . |
| 6 | Having heard T W Ltd 's further representations seeking extended hours for their haulage operations , the DLA confirmed that the conditions attaching to the licence renewal had been imposed solely to prevent local residents having their sleep disturbed at unsocial hours . |
| 7 | Businessmen have been drafted in to advise civil servants . |
| 8 | The carvers were unlikely to be directly connected with the building of the church or the carpenters employed but would have been commissioned separately to provide these embellishments . |
| 9 | A church organist has been told not to play low notes because it could damage the spire . |
| 10 | At the other end of the building some very different experiments had been going on involving nuclear physicists who knew of the existence but few of the details of ZETA . |
| 11 | ‘ Merger accounting has sometimes been used artificially to boost reported earnings by including the full year 's profits of a subsidiary acquired late in the year . ’ |
| 12 | ( English is confusing here , for the same term ‘ man ’ has — until recently — been used both to encompass all humans , and specifically to speak of men . ) |
| 13 | I have been shown how to make warm clothes for myself and my children for the winter . |
| 14 | ‘ The police have been called in to investigate 100 complaints from electors who were denied their votes … |
| 15 | A joint committee of the Commons and the Lords has been set up to scrutinize statutory instruments , and therefore to facilitate parliamentary review of subordinate legislation . |
| 16 | ‘ It is reasonably clear on the authorities that where a statutory tribunal has been set up to decide final questions affecting parties ' rights and duties , if the statute is silent upon the question , the courts will imply into the statutory provision a rule that the principles of natural justice should be applied . |
| 17 | The following groups have been set up to examine all aspects of the service on a corporate basis : |
| 18 | The institutions which had previously been set up to aid small farmers had their lending capacity cut considerably , making it difficult for many of the beneficiaries to find sufficient capital . |
| 19 | To summarise , at this point in the analysis the database had been set up listing all activities considered systemically desirable to achieve the transformation defined by the root definition , identified by description and by code . |
| 20 | Things are so bad that a special course has been set up to train young hopefuls , and maybe reverse the trend . |
| 21 | The C&P Quality Awards have been set up to recognize outstanding achievements in quality improvement . |
| 22 | New anti-fraud teams have been set up to investigate any discrepancies . |
| 23 | A parliamentary commission if inquiry ( the CPI ) has been set up to investigate any moves to protect Indians or the environment — which the CPI says are ploys to disguise foreign interests in the Amazon 's vast natural resources . |
| 24 | Simply getting depressed clients to work in groups and focus on their problems in living has been found not to effect significant changes in level of depression ( Nezu , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | A TELLER of tall tales has been brought in to help would-be vicars keep the congregation rolling in the aisles . |
| 26 | Some thirteen investigators from seven institutions have been brought together to examine various dimensions of the data set ; some of the areas to be covered will be public sector/ private sector relationships , manual skill differentials , sex differentials , white-collar pay movements , the dispersion of pay , pay in relation to hours worked , shift work and incentive pay , the role of national collective agreements , and pay according to region , age and size of plant . |
| 27 | If two people are merely sharing a house or flat , e.g. two friends , unless the underwriters have been asked specifically to cover both persons ' property , there would only be cover for the property of the Policyholder . |
| 28 | When a repeat biopsy was taken in these patients it did not affect management and this practice , which has often been followed just to satisfy some definitions of coeliac disease , should be reviewed . |
| 29 | A number of new projects have been announced recently involving Western firms and companies or organisations in the Far East . |
| 30 | This time , each sheet had been folded twice to give four leaves ( eight pages ) in a gathering , and the book is therefore a quarto ( 4to ) . |