Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smiling broadly , and displaying the naughty element of her nature , which had been hidden previously behind the candy-coated exterior , she teased reporters . |
| 2 | These have been hidden here by a little firm , and I think I know whose it was ! ’ |
| 3 | So far as observation and knowledge of the world is concerned , the beliefs of the northern peoples have been dismissed equally by the Russian Orthodox Church and by the Communists as benighted superstition which imprisoned them mentally in a fear of evil spirits . |
| 4 | The differential impact of national and industry environmental forces upon the structure , process and outcomes of industrial relations have been examined empirically for the important metalworking industry across five countries . |
| 5 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 6 | Hu Jiwei had been recalled earlier by the Sichuan provincial people 's congress for his " illegal role in the turmoil " of May and June 1989 when he had attempted to call an emergency meeting of the NPC Standing Committee . |
| 7 | The dishwasher has been tucked away in the central island and is opposite the main sink , so dishes can be quickly rinsed and put out of sight . |
| 8 | The subsurface form of the thrust zone has now been traced eastwards to the northern Rhenish Massif of Germany where it was described by Meissner , Bartelsen , and Murawski ( 1981 ) as a strong reflector 3.4 km deep , dipping slightly to the south-southeast ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 9 | Previous study of colonic pressures in paediatric patients has been limited mainly to the rectosigmoid area , because of relative inaccessibility of the proximal colon . |
| 10 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 11 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 12 | Economic questions have been left largely to social policy analysts to look at , and much of their writing has been placed squarely within a radical framework often described by the term ‘ the political economy of ageing ’ . |
| 13 | It was followed by a lunch party at a local restaurant where the tables had been placed outside in the cobbled square . |
| 14 | In recent years , employment prospects have been excellent and geographers have been placed successfully in a wide range of employment in research , industry , commerce , government , and the professions , either entering directly or by using their first degrees as a foundation for further qualifications . |
| 15 | On the village green is a stone block said to have been placed there by a local lord of short stature , to help him mount his horse . |
| 16 | Marginal plants , as their name implies , grow in the shallow water at the pool 's edge and can either be grown in planting baskets , like waterlilies , or in soil that has been placed directly on the marginal shelf . |
| 17 | It looked like Postine had been crushed instantly by the collapsing temple . |
| 18 | I have argued elsewhere that these ideological failures have been compounded firstly by a reductive conception of culture and secondly by a culturalist conception of race and ethnic identity ( Gilroy , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | The techniques referred to in the revised manual appear to have been developed particularly after the inner-city riots of 1981 . |
| 20 | The miracle accounts have been developed both by the early Church and the Evangelists to say something important about Jesus . |
| 21 | Its 1,360cc four-cylinder engine , mated to a five-speed gearbox , is new , having been developed specially for the new generation of AXs from the mainstream-car petrol engine . |
| 22 | While this treatment remains at the experimental stage , may I suggest that the logical position is that prospective patients who have been referred onward by the general practitioner and consultant should be selected — probably by Professor Hitchcock himself — and financed centrally as part of the experimental budget ? |
| 23 | Some letters might have been regarded even in the late sixth century as being historically important ; the first two , which are among the earliest in the collection , are letters from Remigius , bishop of Rheims , to Clovis , the first Christian king of the Franks . |
| 24 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 25 | All these ‘ taints ’ have been boiled away in the good old-fashioned aggro of Oi . |
| 26 | Visitors were allowed entry only in batches of 200 ; no sketches or notes were permitted on the premises ; future directors were obliged by her will to live in situ , on the fourth floor ( a rule which has been broken only by the present director ) . |
| 27 | The meridians , as conduits for electro-magnetic bioenergy distribution throughout the physical vehicle , appear from his findings to have been formed earlier in the creative process than the arteries , veins and lymphatic vessels . |
| 28 | Hardly had the Padre finished saying the Nunc Dimittis when the Doctor , who had been kneeling innocently in the front row , sprang to his feet . |
| 29 | The greatest human impact has been in Uruguay , where 600–2000 franciscanas have been drowning annually in a gill-net fishery for sharks in recent years . |
| 30 | REACTIVE oxygen species have been implicated both in the ageing process and in degenerative diseases , including arthritis and cancer . |