Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 2 | The situation at the moment in the field of research in homoeopathy is that much encouraging and interesting work demonstrating effects of homoeopathic potencies has been carried out in a wide variety of laboratory and clinical models . |
| 3 | The Minister also said that the medical examination had been carried out in a sympathetic and professional manner . |
| 4 | Sometimes the act has been carried out in a hostile fashion that causes maximum distress to the staff . |
| 5 | Last month the European Socialist group , the largest in the European Parliament , threatened to sack the entire commission because the charter had been watered down in a vain attempt to secure Mrs Thatcher 's backing for it at the Strasbourg summit . |
| 6 | The one person whom Kate had always seen as constant and good had been shown up in a dark light . |
| 7 | She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving . |
| 8 | The horse , who had steadily been moving along in a quiet way , gave a strange little leap and she realised she had inadvertently dug her heels into his side . |
| 9 | Within half and hour , Curtis learned his man had been driven off in a green Cadillac by the unfortunate owner of the car , whom he had taken hostage at gun point . |
| 10 | The turkeys , actually , are by Meyer Vaisman one of the baddest of the art world bad boys and they have been set out in a big free-range area at Castelli until the 17th of the month . |
| 11 | The main lawn and border shapes have been laid out in a flowing line that leads you through the garden , echoing the curve of the path . |
| 12 | There 's nothing worse than setting off on a day 's walking after a cold sleepless night when you feel as though you 've been trussed up in a straight jacket . |
| 13 | Although the role of Western doctors in the introduction of Western medicine to China has been known about in a general sense for a long time , no studies exist which assess the contributions of British doctors in the last two centuries , yet evidence suggests that these were by no means insubstantial . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I 've been brought up in a good school these last few years , do n't you think ? |
| 15 | The company of women was by no means disagreeable — he had , after all , been brought up in a similar household — and the Mirrlees family provided him with the kind of comfort and security which his life otherwise lacked . |
| 16 | Success in education has come largely through a process of social indoctrination ; if the young person has been brought up in a supportive home which was valued education and encouraged the youngster to stick at the work in order to pass through the hoops which lead to higher education and the professional occupations , the young person has very often done well at school . |
| 17 | In March 1939 the CRREC claimed that ‘ Not only are Jewish children with no particular religious affiliation being placed in non Jewish homes and schools , utterly abandoned as far as their religious education is concerned , but even children who have been brought up in a religious atmosphere … are being callously placed in non Jewish schools and homes , where they suffer mental torture which , in at least one case , has brought the child to the verge of a nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 18 | In both cases , the girls would have been brought up in a genteel atmosphere , although they might originally have come from very poor families . |
| 19 | Younger people have been brought up in a different way from the way our parents and grandparents were . |
| 20 | She 's just a chit , and a knowin' one at that , who 's been brought up in a different atmosphere . |
| 21 | A very efficient method for generating the data necessary to order a library is to hybridise DNA probes onto filters where the library has been spotted out in a high density grid ( 2 ) . |
| 22 | It reminded her of a film she had seen years before in which a cigarette had been stubbed out in a fried egg . |
| 23 | To my dismay , the whole entrance to Clonmacnoise had been concreted over in a multi-lane car park that was almost totally empty . |
| 24 | Again , files that have not been worked on in a given period can be selected . |
| 25 | If the organization 's strategy has been worked out in a thorough and collaborative way , there should exist a mutual understanding of roles as between departments . |
| 26 | Her hair , snow white and abundant , had been topped off in a ragged uneven way by the home 's hairdresser . |