Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 properly will depend on either the specific instructions given to him or arguments about the implied duties of an expert conducting a reference : for three possible examples , see 14.8 , 14.9 and 14.10. a breach of the implied duty under s14 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 , unless there is a specific time provision or the duty has been expressly excluded by agreement with the parties .
32 If , since union , sovereignty has been successfully asserted in practice by the United Kingdom Parliament , and if that assertion has come to be accepted as the basis of the existing constitutional edifice , that is what must , at all events pending the next shift , govern .
33 There is no doubt too that parents have become more aware that immunisation can carry a risk of adverse reaction and this has been most publicised in relation to the whooping cough vaccine .
34 There have been cases , fortunately rare , where children have been indecently assaulted at school by parent helpers .
35 Of the previous four presidents one , Johnson , had been effectively driven from office by the failure of his Vietnam policy ; one , Nixon , had resigned in disgrace and neither Ford nor Carter had been able to cope with the limits on presidential power .
36 Where national and international pressure has been effectively mobilized in defence of such victims of state-sanctioned abuse victories are often won .
37 This has been greatly increasing in popularity in recent years and , according to all the forecasts , looks set to become even more widespread .
38 However the balance has been somewhat redressed by recruitment to the BA courses and by in-service courses for qualified teachers which in 1982 raised its student numbers to about 385 .
39 A practical system of colour photography had been eagerly searched for right from the beginning .
40 A practical system of colour photography had been eagerly searched for right from the beginning .
41 But would n't cricket have been better served by frankness from the outset and an early investigation of suspicions concerning Pakistan ?
42 This will be so where selection is for a ‘ trade union reason ’ , such as refusing to become or remain a member of a particular trade union ; or if you have been unjustifiably selected in contravention of a customary agreement or agreed procedure in respect of redundancies .
43 In August 1333 the king declared that divers woods and other places in Surrey had been unjustifiably disafforested under colour of the Statute of 1327 : there was evidence in ‘ divers inquisitions taken in the time of his progenitors and … other memoranda in the Exchequer ’ that they ought to remain in the forest .
44 In each of these appeals it has been rightly accepted by counsel for the contemnor that the hearing below of the committal application was impeccable , that the sentence imposed for the contempts of court found proved can not be criticised and the committal order properly specified each of the contempts for which the contemnor had been sentenced .
45 The staircase was ornamented at intervals with classical figures , chastely draped , and there was still a sweet primness in the graceful propriety of their attitudes though some were lacking a hand or an arm and others had had their noses rot away or even been entirely decapitated by exposure to the elements , and all were soot-stained and weather-beaten .
46 Passing over more innovative authors such as Lawrence Durrell or William Golding , it helped establish a sort of myth of the 1950s , to the effect that the complexities and indulgences of modernism had been sensibly rejected in favour of a thoroughgoing return to traditional , realist style , and to the true subject of the novel , class and social relations .
47 Not only have vital subsistence crops been burnt but civilians have been brutally murdered as part of a deliberate policy to create terror and clear the regions where the FMLN operate .
48 A YOUNG English mum has been brutally murdered in front of her two-month-old daughter in Spain .
49 Peter , having been dismissed because his work as a traffic clerk has been largely supplanted by use of a computer program for traffic Mows , vehicle scheduling and so on is eligible for a redundancy payment .
50 The king 's own influence in the north rested primarily on the support of local men , and the appointment of a lieutenant could do little more than seek to transfer that support , something which had already been largely achieved through recognition of Gloucester 's role as his brother 's agent in the north .
51 The king 's own influence in the north rested primarily on the support of local men , and the appointment of a lieutenant could do little more than seek to transfer that support , something which had already been largely achieved through recognition of Gloucester 's role as his brother 's agent in the north .
52 The problem of introducing a banding regime which survives the in situ hybridization protocol has been largely overcome in man through the introduction of replication G-banding by BrdU substitution ( 20 ) .
53 Apart from the GCC states , where public opinion has been generally conditioned by fear of Iraq , Arab reactions to the war and to Western proposals for security have been virtually unanimously hostile .
54 The bedrooms have all been individually redesigned with comfort in mind and offer the best in modern facilities with colour TV ( with satellite ) , telephone , radio and minibar combined with traditional elegance .
55 More fundamentally , the view that pressure for change could have been indefinitely held in check by resolute repression overrates the resources available to unrepentant autocracy .
56 At the same time , the First Leisure Corporation presented the Association with a £17,000 coach which had been specially customised for use at Sussexdown .
57 For every pair of tickets purchased , you will receive a free cassette/CD , entitled Flowers in Music , which has been specially compiled by Music for Pleasure , a division of EMI Records ( UK ) .
58 broken to use as a weapon , or a belt if it has been specially studded for use as a weapon .
59 When you are planning musical additions to your soundtracks , remember that the law of copyright protects all commercial music recordings except those which have been specially produced for use as background music .
60 It is hoped you will support this day as it has been specially organised in view of the proposed support .
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