Example sentences of "been [verb] [subord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A Thai bronze figure of the Walking Buddha , which had been catalogued as dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and estimated at £25,000-£30,000 , turned out to have been made within the last 150 years .
2 What we have seen in the 1980s is a process by which poverty has been redefined as to do with the ‘ inner city ’ .
3 Deaths from asthma in various regions have risen by 30-60 per cent over the last decade , and one in seven children have now been diagnosed as suffering from the condition .
4 As an example , the section 530 could have been developed as follows for a sequence : 530 , 531 , 532 … 537 , 538 , 5391 , 5392 , 5393 … etc .
5 He was accused of molesting a 14-year-old boy whom he had been counselling while working as a school chaplain .
6 The meaning of ‘ insolvent ’ has already been considered when dealing with the seller 's lien .
7 This group of fish was also fully fledged in the Devonian , and this is of particular significance because the origin of all land vertebrates has been considered as lying within a species of this group .
8 Sufism in today 's Africa , with its saint worship and magical practices , has been presented as doomed in the path of modernisation : such an assessment is to be seriously questioned here .
9 Such deference has often been seen as allied with a social deference , citizens according certain skills of government to those drawn from a particular group .
10 More curiously still , by promoting the figure of Charlemagne , Otto has also been seen as contributing to the creation of the French state : ‘ The notion that there was such a country as France , at a time when the royal authority was very little recognised outside the narrow boundaries of the royal domain , the Île de France , was fostered by the legend of Charlemagne . ’
11 The important meetings had taken place in the East , and though very few representatives of the Western Churches had , attended , the canons had been accepted as binding upon the whole Christian world .
12 The alleged contraventions of section 57 consist of the publication of investment advertisements whose contents had not been approved as required by the Act .
13 Seven years after the Americans bombed Libya , a veteran peace campaigner has been arrested while protesting at the airbase used for the raid .
14 The primary and secondary windings of the transformer have been interlinked as shown in the circuit diagram , such that the twin 120V primary windings are in series , making the transformer suitable for domestic 240V mains operation .
15 Cases considered during the past year have been concluded as shown in the panel .
16 Kenneth Orbinson , an Ulster Television cameraman , gave evidence at the trial of those arrested on 5 October : he said that he had been sprayed while filming from the window of a flat in Duke Street ; but his film was not admitted as evidence .
17 A distinctive , erratic song with some metallic-sounding notes coming from the hidden depths of a thicket had finally been identified as belonging to a bluethroat , surely one of the most beautiful small birds in Scandinavia .
18 Some of these were obsolete , but one has been identified as belonging to a Babylonian king , the twentieth of the Kassite dynasty , who reigned from 1381 to 1354 B.C. The suggestion has been made that the string may have been a royal gift .
19 More than 4,300 genetic disorders have been identified as depending on a single faulty gene ; they include cystic fibrosis , haemophilias and Huntington 's disease .
20 Two other changes in the nature of the court 's work had been identified as contributing to the failure to reduce lead times .
21 A large number of factors have been identified as contributing to the development of childhood psychiatric disorder in some way .
22 Sugar conformations and glycosidic rotation angles have been estimated as described in the legend to Table 1 .
23 An employee had been electrocuted when working on the magnetron assembly line of the company 's Thornaby-on-Tees factory , which was engaged in another stage of the microwave oven manufacturing process , when he had come into contact with exposed conductors .
24 It has also often been argued that there is empirical evidence that rules the suggestion quite out of court by demonstrating that a pre-exposed stimulus quite lacks the properties that have been taken as defining for an inhibitory CS ( Rescorla 1969 ) .
25 Some aspects of the nature of the site have already been discussed when looking at the effect of the building regulations .
26 ‘ Some of them have 58-inch wheels and seeing one has been described as looking like a gothic cathedral coming towards you . ’
27 The gharial has evolved the most extraordinarily long , slim , almost beak-like jaws , which have been described as looking like the handle of a saucepan .
28 Had this book been written in 1964 , for example , the responsibilities of the Department of Health and Social Security would have been described as coming under the Ministry of Health , the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance , and the National Assistance Board .
29 Poor breeding in wet , cold springs ; clear-felling of Scots pine forests ; the proliferation of dense sitka spruce plantations ; and over-shooting have all been suggested as contributing to the capercaillie 's retreat .
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