Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous ball had been stopped just short of the boundary by some members of the crowd who had engulfed the pitch . |
| 2 | For a file of this size , no value has been altered materially due to the simplification of using Poisson values . |
| 3 | She claims she would not have needed the operation if she had not been given too much of a drug to hasten the delivery . |
| 4 | They have been attracted as much by the intellectual image as by the high level of celebrity support from artists like John Cleese , Peter Gabriel and Sting . |
| 5 | He says asthma has been becoming increasingly common for the last 20 years for reasons we do n't understand . |
| 6 | And she seemed flustered when I demanded to know where she 'd been when I 'd been gassed right next to the ship . |
| 7 | have managers been made adequately aware of the potential of the system and given help to use it for strategic and management control decision making ? |
| 8 | Since Postan wrote in 1950 , the figures on which historians can base their opinions have been made conveniently available with the compilation of the Phelps Brown and Hopkins indices of the cost of consumable goods , and of building wage-rates in southern England , expressed in terms of these goods [ A.1 ] . |
| 9 | These discrepancies have been made particularly clear in the comparison of his statements concerned with local government reform and his treatment of the draft structure plan for the Borders region . |
| 10 | Seacontrol represents the first time on-board maintenance software has been made commercially available to the shipping industry by a marine coatings supplier . |
| 11 | Any projected reconstruction of this great temple has been made very difficult by the fragmentation and scattering of the remains but in recent years Anton Bammer has published the results of his work on the site in Die Architektur des Jungeren Artemision von Ephesos , Wiesbaden , 1972 . |
| 12 | It had been made very plain over the centuries . |
| 13 | With the benefit of hindsight er could the tornado programme have been made more efficient with the lessons that you 've learnt so far , er from er Eurofighter an and secondly , perhaps more difficult , er the lessons you have learned from tornado and certainly from the current project , could they be transferred to other complicated collaborative er project , programmes like cobra and ? |
| 14 | MultiGen , meantime , has been made more powerful through a number of virtual reality options . |
| 15 | Additives : In recent years we have been made more aware of the danger of excessive artificial additives in our food and drink . |
| 16 | Every week , we shall publish a list of business opportunities that have been made publicly available through the Official Journal of the European Community , or through the network of a total of 211 EuroInfo Centres which are based throughout Europe . |
| 17 | The matter has been made much clearer by the work of M. J. Taylor and Roger Short . |
| 18 | It is partly because of the ease with which getting your ideas onto paper has been made so simple by the PC and word processor that extra care now has to accompany the typing of every paragraph . |
| 19 | That the crass inversion of reality caricatured in these aspects of the popular image of Hitler was in large measure a product of the deliberate distortions of Nazi propaganda has been made abundantly clear in the preceding chapters . |
| 20 | There would be enormous difficulties in trying to operate a general rule that had not been made sufficiently specific at a proper point beforehand . |
| 21 | For example , when it was discovered in the 1970s that male workers in America and Costa Rica had been made permanently sterile by a pesticide called dibromochloropropane , the substance was banned . |
| 22 | The book has been written very much with the busy clinician in mind and conveys only the most superficial impression , an approach that is less than satisfactory for the serious researcher or specialist . |
| 23 | He thought he was covered to drive another vehicle , and said he had been told as much on the telephone by his insurers . |
| 24 | One minister of the Church of Scotland in Orkney had been growing increasingly concerned about the growth of extremism in religion . |
| 25 | The former boys school is thought to have been founded about 1670 by a member of the Boynton family . |
| 26 | She explained that they contained Lady Spencer 's clothes , and had been bought much earlier for a trip to Japan . |
| 27 | He had declined an invitation to dinner , as the stabbing pains in his head had been getting steadily worse throughout the day . |
| 28 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |
| 29 | In the political sphere also it is possible to detect a parallel crisis developing in respect of orthodox democratic theory based on the conventional model of representative democracy , For one thing the traditional mechanisms of political control and accountability exercised through parliament have been rendered increasingly ineffective by the ascending power of the executive . |
| 30 | Now it has been rendered virtually obsolete by the introduction of quasi-military squads of police officers known as SWAT ( Special Weapons and Tactics ) units . |