Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aid trucks have been stopped from reaching Muslim areas there for a month by the Bosnian Croats who control the roads ; 1.3m people have been cut off from aid . |
| 2 | The official newspaper of the Communist Youth League had reportedly been criticized for publishing investigative reports against party orders , and its editors had been threatened with a period in the country . |
| 3 | The relatively puny father-of-three could have been forgiven for having second thoughts when he was picked . |
| 4 | This is important because specific mechanisms have since been developed for subsidizing private operations in the inner area , but it should also be noted that all inner-area housing sites were already designated as housing land and there were no ‘ change of use ’ profits to be made on them . |
| 5 | Relatively little thought appears to have been given to developing systematic forms of training in the area of music in worship , and little assessment of the quality of training seems to take place . |
| 6 | In the past , however , insufficient priority has been given to processing such applications . |
| 7 | Shaken but still thinking straight , Lynsey remembered the advice she had been given on defusing difficult situations . |
| 8 | Gen. Ricardo Contreras , head of the Army Intelligence Battalion ( BIE ) which in September had been exposed for tapping civilian telephones [ see p. 39092 ] . |
| 9 | And er I think , I I agree , I agree with a lot of the demands that feminist women have made but , to kind of congregate it in that way , it 's bu , I mean a lot of wha er , white feminists have been attacked for excluding black women , and that 's one of the examples where you know , to be , to say that you 're a feminist , it 's not just men that you 're alienating , you 're also alienating other way . |
| 10 | So some of the sulphur which has been blamed for causing environmental problems , may before long emerge in the form of ‘ Andricite , ’ plaster and wall-boards in our houses — courtesy of ICI . |
| 11 | The movement was particularly strong in the north-eastern town of Suceava where it claimed credit for the closure in February of the local cellulose fabric plant , whose carbon disulphide emissions had been blamed for causing nervous disorders . |
| 12 | Psychologists and physiologists have always been resigned to using statistical analyses to extract meaning from and interpret their data . |
| 13 | In addition , four exploration wells have been drilled in surrounding onshore areas of Great Britain . |
| 14 | Since then the exchange value of the currency has fallen by 78% , but any advantages for exports have been eroded by rising domestic prices . |
| 15 | Johnson Matthey Technology Centre ( JMTC ) has always been committed to developing good relationships with local educational establishments and encouraging excellence in the teaching of science and technology . |
| 16 | For many years the Conservative Party had been committed to abandoning domestic rates , a commitment the 1987 Conservative government decided to uphold . |
| 17 | And since the factory opened , Rajinder Anand has been fined for distributing large numbers of counterfeit audio-cassette tapes . |
| 18 | During wartime and the postwar era of government price control , electricity undertakings had in many cases been prevented from raising domestic tariffs to meet increased costs , and had drawn instead on their reserves and on the automatic increases paid by larger ( mainly industrial ) consumers under the coal-cost increase clause of their special tariffs . |
| 19 | Mr David Gee , director designate of Friends of the Earth , said the bill had already been weakened by giving big concessions to industry , especially over freedom of information to the public and scope and timetable of the new controls over pollution . |
| 20 | For this test a parametrization of the metric is chosen which is general enough to include deviations from Newtonian mechanics which are wider than general relativistic effects ( this post-Newtonian parametrization has also been applied to analysing individual effects ) . |
| 21 | Prolonged exposure to anaesthetics has been associated with reproductive problems , and cathode-ray VDU screens have long been suspected of causing foetal deformities and miscarriages . |
| 22 | A case has also been made for using educational variables as an alternative . |
| 23 | It is conceivable that if an agreement had been signed and if henceforth Anglo-American relations had been bathed in sweetness and light , arrangements might have been made for pooling atomic weapons production . |
| 24 | At the conclusion of the meeting , little progress had been made beyond agreeing procedural rules and setting up two working parties . |
| 25 | What progress has been made in bringing those roads up to condition ? |
| 26 | Relatively little progress has been made in answering these questions . |
| 27 | Since 1983 , as a result of both NATO 's resilience and its willingness to respond rapidly to change , significant progress has been made in reducing nuclear weapons . |
| 28 | A REGIONAL councillor has been censured for removing three sets of keys from a district council 's offices . |
| 29 | The agency 's been accused of targeting richer fathers who already pay something to meet its five hundred and thirty million pound target in benefit savings . |
| 30 | He had fled Romania after having been accused of helping anti-government demonstrators in Bucharest and after having survived what he claimed were three assassination attempts . |