Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 2 | My name had been bandied about in recent weeks , ever since the ban was reduced by two years . |
| 3 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
| 4 | She had risen from the couch and was awaiting his approach , her consternation evident as if she had been caught out in some misbehaviour . |
| 5 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 6 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 7 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 8 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 9 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 10 | As a result , a whole range of measures including stricter disciplinary codes , work reorganisation and redundancies have been carried through in large numbers of firms ( Hyman and Elger , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | As for the social composition of the judiciary , the many surveys that have been carried out in recent years ( see Griffith , 1995 : 25 ) show the overwhelming predominance of upper-class and upper-middle-class backgrounds . |
| 12 | This categorisation could have been carried out in other ways , and other purposes seen here as secondary could have been given greater prominence . |
| 13 | Those few studies that have been carried out in free-running experiments suggest that the body clock might run slightly faster . |
| 14 | Surveys of T. canis prevalence in dogs have been carried out in most countries and have shown a wide range of infection rates , from 5% to over 80% . |
| 15 | Significant research has been carried out in this field . |
| 16 | In fact Peasgood suggests , in one of the few surveys which have been carried out in this area , that selection in academic libraries from the ‘ book in hand ’ was found to be no more effective than selection from lists ( effectiveness being measured in terms of subsequent issues ) . |
| 17 | Numerous MEG supported projects have been carried out in this area , especially by Noranda-Kerr , and all data are available on Open File . |
| 18 | At the end of Chapter 3 it was pointed out that the 1960s had seen a series of reform proposals in British government and that by 1980 most of these had been carried out in some form though the question of devolution had still to be settled . |
| 19 | Where research studies have been carried out in different parts of the country it is difficult to disentangle anything which might be attributed to regional variations specifically , from other systematic variations by gender , class , ethnicity or variations over time ( that is where changes in patterns of family relationships have occurred between the 1960s and the 1980s ) . |
| 20 | However , it is interesting to note that some of the most serious programmes in this field have been carried out in Third World countries . |
| 21 | It is important to distinguish between such lexical analysis of uncontrolled terms in thesis titles , ( which has not been carried out in any detail in the present study but which is one of the factors analysed in a paper in preparation by the author ) , and the subject classification carried out by Rolfe , Will and in the Laming list . |
| 22 | Research in Scottish geology has been carried out in 21 institutions , but has been concentrated in rather fewer . |
| 23 | But Hans , tell me , have you been mixed up in any rackets ? ’ |
| 24 | A great deal of confidence has been built up in this system and NASA regularly publish reports of incidents notified to them , though of course without any reference to the individuals involved . |
| 25 | Each turkey , fresh from the taxidermist , has been tarted up in one sort of drag or another from Parlour maid to Kabuki actor and , who knows ? maybe even Uncle Sam . |
| 26 | More offices had been opened up in many countries . |
| 27 | ALASTAIR McHARG , the celebrated Scotland lock , capped 44 times from 1968 to 1979 , has been sounding off in all directions over the small number of his London Scots chosen for the coming Scottish tour of Australia . |
| 28 | Flood-stories have been handed down in many languages from most parts of the world . |
| 29 | Although the National Certificate , with its competence-based , internally-assessed modules , has almost become part of the educational establishment now , we should not forget that Scotland led the way in the development of this kind of award and our experience has been drawn on in subsequent moves to make all Britain 's vocational qualifications modular and competence-based . |
| 30 | The Auditing Practices Board has issued a Practice Note for Lloyd 's auditors , which has been drawn up in close cooperation with the insurance market . |