Example sentences of "been [vb pp] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 2 | The sensitivity of platelets from diabetic subjects to the antiaggregatory effects of prostacyclin has been examined in a cross-sectional study using the electronic whole blood platelet aggregometer ( Jones et al , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 4 | A village that was mentioned in the Domesday Book has now been immortalised in a modern publication . |
| 5 | Bernard went into hiding and was only heard of again when news reached the Israeli Mossad that he had been assassinated in a car-bomb attack in Beirut . |
| 6 | Concern has been expressed by nursing organisations that some skillmix exercises have been undertaken in a simplistic manner , purely for cost-cutting purposes and with adverse effects on quality of care . |
| 7 | When a plant has been placed in a low-humidity environment likely to cause water stress the measurements taken so far have always decreased and so revealed the stress . |
| 8 | But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership . |
| 9 | Maintenance Manager — this role has been given considerable status in this example ; it could have been placed in a subordinate position to the Manufacturing Manager , where it is frequently to be found . |
| 10 | ‘ You see , Doctor Masters , ’ he continued , ‘ we have been placed in a difficult position , but that is no reflection on your qualities as a good doctor . |
| 11 | Most decent councillors have been placed in an impossible position because of the failure of the Government 's housing and economic policies to deliver the affordable rural homes that are so desperately needed . |
| 12 | Norman Lindop , as Chairman of the Committee for Education at this stage , considered that the Council had been placed in an impossible position by the sudden introduction of a new range of institutions ‘ and the need for urgent action to solve problems externally created ’ . |
| 13 | Much of the criticism was justified but to be fair to Hodge , he had been placed in an invidious position and , blinkered as he was , in some respects , he was correct in appreciating that a rebuilding of the Korean right offered the only means of preventing communist success in south Korea . |
| 14 | If the only or main reason for your being sacked was an ‘ economic , technical or organisational ’ one , entailing changes in the work-force — the vague Euro-jargon of the 1981 Regulations is a reminder that they were inspired by an EC Directive — your claim will not succeed if you have been treated in a reasonable manner . |
| 15 | he feels they 've been treated in a shabby way . |
| 16 | The safety of medicines has not always been treated in a balanced way by the lay press or by some consumer advocates . |
| 17 | Beware if a potential leader comes in with dissatisfaction at how he has been treated in a previous group . |
| 18 | The value of the trait ( which might be some such quantitative variable as size ) is measured in the offspring and their parents : if the values are correlated then ( provided that the offspring have not been reared in a similar environment to their parents ) the trait is heritable. ( b ) by artificial selection . |
| 19 | The pain in his ribs , three of which had been crushed in a recent collision , was almost unbearable . |
| 20 | The plight of young homeless people has been highlighted in a new report . |
| 21 | The issue of local economies being spun into what becomes a self-perpetuating decline has been highlighted in a recent report from the Centre for Environmental Studies ( Outer Estates in Britain , CES Paper , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | Oxygen is recommended for use in children admitted to hospital with severe pneumonia but the recently suggested clinical criteria for treatment with oxygen have not been validated in a clinical setting . |
| 23 | For such cream cheeses moulds are not strictly necessary , although the cheese looks more presentable if it has been pressed in a muslin-lined basket , a heart-shaped mould , a cake tin pierced with holes , even an expendable carton or a flower pot — always provided that the essential lining is not forgotten . |
| 24 | The analogous hypokalaemia that may occur during treatment with β 2 adrenoceptor agonists has been explained in a similar manner . |
| 25 | They have been arranged in a Western home by the Japanese wife of Balthus , the great French painter . |
| 26 | Hobson and McCarley 's thesis has also been developed in a recent essay by Martin Seligman and Amy Yellen , whose title — " What is a dream ? " — has been borrowed for this chapter . |
| 27 | Further details of the method have been given in a recent paper . |
| 28 | Three Cabinet appointees were reported on April 1 to have rejected posts which they had been given in a transitional government appointed on March 30 . |
| 29 | " The Times " reported this evidence — which , having been given in a foreign court , was not protected by absolute privilege . |
| 30 | This has been painted in a strong colour to make it look more aggressive . |