Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added that Miss Owen had been sacked for asking the elderly residents their views about another member of staff . |
| 2 | But it had been decentralised without attacking the big cost structures and without the addition of any procedures , with the result that two functional layers were beginning to develop business managers were starting to grow their own subsidiary boards with their own functional capability while the organisation as a whole retained its own capability . |
| 3 | Appropriate methodology has been developed for examining the historical tracking performance of large-scale macroeconometric models which contain model-consistent expectations and this now enables attention to be focused upon historical counter-factual experiments , paying particular attention to the treatment of policy in such exercises . |
| 4 | The fact that very little concerted thought had been given to organizing the juvenile labour-market does not mean that no action had been taken at the local level by schools , skilled employment committees , and several or more local education authorities . |
| 5 | It has caused collection problems on a hitherto unprecedented scale , and more than £100 million worth of taxpayers ' money has been squandered on administering the wretched tax in Wales alone . |
| 6 | The division on the Determination of Needs Bill debate in February 1941 was reprinted from Hansard , citing all 173 who had voted for the continuance of means calculations together with the ‘ sincere few ’ ( nineteen ) who had been carpeted for defying the Labour whip . |
| 7 | Pressure for multiple units has been alleviated by making the 09.25 summer Saturday Birmingham to Pwllheli loco-hauled with a 31 providing the motive power . |
| 8 | Tight German recycling laws had been blamed for encouraging the illegal disposal of waste in neighbouring countries . |
| 9 | RTZ 's Tinto Holdings Canada Ltd subsidiary has a controlling interest in a company which mines uranium at Elliot Lake , Ontario , which has been blamed for destroying the fishing-based economy of the local Anishnabe Indians . |
| 10 | As far as total dust veil is concerned , it seems to be roughly the same size as the veil from the Agung eruption , which has been blamed for cooling the northern hemisphere by about 0.3 °C in the mid-1960s.There is one key difference , though : El Chichón 's eruption occurred in the northern hemisphere , Agung 's in the south . |
| 11 | Substantial progress has been reported in understanding the molecular pathology of presenile Alzheimer 's disease but this can not be extrapolated to senile forms before the epidemiology of presenile disease is known . |
| 12 | Dr Allan said the two men were bearing up well and were in better condition than had been expected after making the longest unsupported polar trip and the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic landmass . |
| 13 | That 's a sprinter 's example , but it 's the same for any athletic performance , as I 've just been reminded by watching the astonishing improvement of Ray Davidson in these past few years . |
| 14 | Although the two leaders signed 15 low-level agreements covering issues such as environmental protection , nuclear energy and cultural links , no significant progress appeared to have been made towards resolving the outstanding dispute arising from the Soviet Union 's occupation of the four islands north of Hokkaido . |
| 15 | A start has therefore been made on improving the social and economic conditions influencing Aboriginal health , but of course much more remains to be done . |
| 16 | 1–9 Great preparations had been made for observing the total eclipse of the moon but owing to thick cloud only the last of it was seen . |
| 17 | Progress has also been made in cloning the ileal Cl - / HCO 3 - exchanger . |
| 18 | Some significant advances have been made in removing the colonial view of history and society which virtually blotted out all history and culture , apart from that of Europe and European settlers in Africa . |
| 19 | In this review we have charted the substantial progress which has been made in understanding the cellular and molecular basis of NMDA receptor-dependent LTP in the hippocampus . |
| 20 | Rechtschaffen 's is a lucid , insightful account of the phenomenology of dreaming , which , despite the many advances that have been made in understanding the natural history of sleep and dreaming , remains unusual in attempting to deal directly with the experience of dreaming . |
| 21 | What , however , is the position if , at the time of the buyer 's wrongful anticipatory repudiation , the seller had already been disabled from completing the essential terms of the contract ( e.g. the seller 's factory making the goods was already so far behind in production that the seller could not possibly have delivered the goods by the contractual delivery date ) . |
| 22 | And any hope Laura might have had of at last having that ‘ long talk ’ which Ross had so faithfully promised her had been dashed on opening the front door of the apartment . |
| 23 | By the mid-1950s , the actual level of demand being experienced averaged 8 per cent more than the compromise estimate which had been adopted in determining the forward programmes . |
| 24 | This condition has been corrected by replacing the defective detail with a conventional sloping stone coping oversailing a ‘ secret gutter ’ of in situ lead which terminates the new roof slating , the new coping being bedded on an impervious damp-proof course ( Plates 28 and 29 ) . |
| 25 | Prince Charles has denounced architects for defacing British cities ; Margaret Thatcher 's governments have challenged the monopolies enjoyed by opticians and the legal profession ; planners have been condemned for producing urban chaos ; teachers have been attacked for crushing originality and stifling creativity in their pupils ; and lawyers have been accused of mystifying the legal system to the point where the layman finds it largely unintelligible . |
| 26 | Patrick had been accused of overreacting the previous day . |
| 27 | The Conservative government under Mrs Thatcher has been accused of abandoning the One Nation style of Toryism and of widening the North-South divide . |
| 28 | Given that the market has ceased to be an effective mode of regulating the exercise of the economic power of the company it is hardly surprising that arguments employed to regulate the exercise of public power should have been drawn upon to regulate the private economic power of corporate managers . |
| 29 | He had been talked into editing the Complete Poems and Plays as early as 1959 , with the blessing of the present Lord Ash , an elderly Methodist peer who was a descendant of a remote cousin of Ash himself and heir to the ownership of the unsold manuscripts . |
| 30 | The Labour Party rejected the United Peace Alliance , though with more reasoned argument than had been used in dismissing the United Front on previous occasions . |