Example sentences of "been [verb] [conj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attacks continued after ibuprofen and cimetidine had been stopped and recurred three days later , after chemotherapy in conjunction with intravenous dexamethasone , metoclopramide , and oral dexamethasone . |
| 2 | None had ever been diagnosed as having colorectal polyps before our examination . |
| 3 | To overcome these problems , techniques have recently been developed that permit prolonged recordings ( 24 hours or more ) of myoelectrical and contractile activity of the human colon , with both perfused and solid-state manometric systems . |
| 4 | In Britain also , several types of paraprofessional training programmes have been developed that provide useful avenues for career advancement . |
| 5 | This guidebook was first published in 1959 , and it has been revised and reprinted several times since , the present copy being a revised impression of the 1981 edition . |
| 6 | The calculations had been completed and stored many months ago . |
| 7 | Additionally , it has been reported that circulating PYY concentrations are raised in patients with malabsorption and it was possible that high colonic fatty acid concentrations may be responsible for this exaggerated PYY release . |
| 8 | Officials at the presidency were quoted by Agence France-Presse as criticising as " too anti-Turkish " a speech which Hovhannesyan had made in Istanbul on Sept. 21 ; Armenia had earlier been reported as requesting 100,000 tonnes of grain from Turkey [ see p. 39109 ] . |
| 9 | It has been rebuilt and readorned many times , and most centuries from the fourth to the twentieth — when it had to be largely rebuilt after the Second World War — have contributed to it ; it is a supreme symbol of continuity . |
| 10 | The group gives support to those whose Izzat has been injured and suggests repressive remedies . |
| 11 | A great day out for all the family , the Centre for Alternative Technology is a living and working community which has been promoting and displaying sustainable technologies for more than 16 years . |
| 12 | His discussion paper on the subject had now been drafted and redrafted several times . |
| 13 | With its broad and open frontiers , Russia is a country that has been invaded and occupied many times by outside powers . |
| 14 | The bridge had been cleaned and repainted two years earlier and was found to be sound . |
| 15 | It has been shown that measuring these antibodies to establish the diagnosis of coeliac disease is helpful but not completely reliable as a few cases would be missed . |
| 16 | Very recently it has been shown that treating prediabetic mice ( that is , before they develop symptoms ) with various chemical agents , including insulin , will prevent diabetes from developing . |
| 17 | It is evident , even from this brief review of the Act , that its overall effect has been to legitimise and encourage numerous police practices ( e.g. stop and search , roadblocks , forcible entry ) which have consistently alienated and antagonised large sections of society — notably , black communities and trade-unionists — and had the accumulated effect of generating public disorder . |
| 18 | Further , it affirms authorities ' responsibilities to meet their legal obligations where users have been assessed as requiring particular services . |
| 19 | I mean this has been worn and washed many times for Charlotte . |
| 20 | It was the first occasion on which the atomic constitution of matter had been recognised as producing visible effects . |
| 21 | Then he extracted the cassette , hauling out the length of tape which had been recording and stuffed both items in his jacket pocket . |
| 22 | It has been found that stamped addressed envelopes give a better response than business reply envelopes ( people do not steam off the stamps ! ) . |
| 23 | ‘ I have already been asked that question several times under druggings of Veritas . |
| 24 | However , he often appears to be saying much more than this and he has certainly been taken as making significant generalisations about the nature of literacy as such . |
| 25 | The last of the oil fires in Kuwait , which had been started when retreating Iraqi forces ignited well heads , has been capped . |
| 26 | The likelihood , indeed , is that they would have been repeated and rehearsed many times ( 'now that 's a very good point you 're making there — I wonder if you could conceivably contrive to put it a little more precisely' ) . |
| 27 | This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times . |
| 28 | Smaller family farmers have been neglected and offered derisory prices for the products they mostly sell ( e.g. cassava and honey , see Chambers and Singer 1980 ) . |
| 29 | Thus many more birds have been recorded as making shorter visits or passing straight through . |
| 30 | In the United States , the Library of Congress has been classifying and cataloguing audio-visual materials for many years , so long as they were deposited at the Library for copyright purposes . |