Example sentences of "been [verb] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transverse effects have been examined in a few instances . |
| 2 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 3 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
| 4 | The hit man has been called in a few times to finish off Jeffrey Probyn yet never once has he managed to carry out his murderous brief . |
| 5 | It has been detected in a dozen systems in the US and yesterday the Swiss government announced that 75 of its computers were infected . |
| 6 | Although the funded consultant posts for junior doctors ' hours will help , these have been concentrated in a few specialties , and the recession has provoked concerns that the rate of consultant expansion may even fall . |
| 7 | If she was a boy , she says , she would have been put in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 8 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |
| 9 | But it means a lifetime of problems have been cured in a few minutes . |
| 10 | But it means a lifetime of problems have been cured in a few minutes . |
| 11 | If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’ |
| 12 | A recent survey of 50 management experts who 's conclusions have just been published in a new Women in Management report . |
| 13 | Britain 's best known anti-virus software comes from S&S International in the shape of Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit , which has now been launched in a new Windows version . |