Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 2 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 3 | The effect of passage through the primate gut has been examined in the tamarins in Amazonian Peru , where it was found that germination success rates were about 70% . |
| 4 | ( nearly one in five ) had been stopped by the police in the street . |
| 5 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 6 | As the terms accountability and democracy were redefined in the poll tax debates , so the concepts of ‘ justice ’ and ‘ active citizenship ’ have been redefined in the debates about public services . |
| 7 | Their veteran spokesman thundered occasionally from the back benches , but he 'd been banished to the backwoods by popular opinion . |
| 8 | He had been posted to the police in Asyut and had hated his time there . |
| 9 | Nonetheless cries of ‘ Kill them [ the Communists ] ’ have been heard on the fringes of the Leipzig demonstrations as protesters stormed the offices of the hated secret police . |
| 10 | Ancient sites have traditionally been recognized as the haunts of beings or entities from worlds other than the everyday . |
| 11 | This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at . |
| 12 | They may however have achieved a realization of theoretical proposals : but we can not be certain about that until further research has been undertaken into the workings of the Household . |
| 13 | No evaluation has yet been undertaken on the effects of this on the fetus . |
| 14 | Er , there is a a little orange leaflet which has been placed on the seats during the day that many of you , I hope , already have er , for anyone who has n't may I perhaps place these on the front table , there 's a the , there 's another supply over there and , could I please ask that some responsible representative from each district would please take a few more of these away with you so that they are distributed in district meetings in the near future , and attention drawn to them there er , if there are not enough copies er , then I 'm sure the provincial office on receiving a , a request from you will make sure there 's more that passed on to you . |
| 15 | It demonstrates clearly the enormous burden of indirect taxation that has been placed on the shoulders of millions of families since the Government came to power . |
| 16 | This manuscript , it emerges , has been placed in the hands of a Californian academic , Jonathan Pons , by the ‘ master of Latin American realism ’ , Valentin Sadaba , whose dismissal of it as possibly ‘ one more sad attempt by an Englishman to emulate the Latin storytellers ’ alerts us to its dubious status and authorship . |
| 17 | Moreover , much of the day-to-day administration has been placed in the hands of salaried officials with the specialized knowledge required to understand the complexities of modern local government administration . |
| 18 | Interestingly , emphasis has been placed by the decision-makers within these bodies on the individuality of the complainant . |
| 19 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 20 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 21 | ‘ This is typical of the way we have been treated since the days of mass vesting of land , much of which was surplus to requirements . ’ |
| 22 | The results of applying the market model to these data are shown in Fig. 6.7 , where the ex-post returns have been plotted against betas which have been adjusted for the changes in the cash holdings of the unit trusts : Ward and Saunders argue that these managerial decisions are particularly important in determining unit trust performance . |
| 23 | The situation had been compounded during the elections in the previous month when the Nationalist had taken seventy-three seats out of a total of one hundred and five , and out of those , forty-two of those elected were in jail for various offences related to their opposition of the British presence in Ireland . |
| 24 | In education , the liberal optimism of the 1985 Swann Report has not only been punctured by the policies of Conservative governments and by the ideological counter-offensive of the New Right . |
| 25 | Neighbourhood Watch A meeting has been arranged for the residents in Baberton Crescent and the scheme should be operational in a short time . |
| 26 | Neighbourhood Watch A meeting has been arranged for the residents in Baberton Crescent and the scheme should be operational in a short time . |
| 27 | It had apparently been arranged for the drugs to be delivered to a warehouse in Bristol . |
| 28 | A cheese ‘ n ‘ wine evening has been arranged for the co-ordinators of the existing neighbourhood watch branches in the Village Hall on Monday , 28th September at 7.30 pm . |
| 29 | A cheese ‘ n ‘ wine evening has been arranged for the co-ordinators of the existing neighbourhood watch branches in the Village Hall on Monday , 28th September at 7.30 pm . |
| 30 | It was the highest level of direct contact between the two Korean states since their formation in 1948 , and was the first official border crossing since September 1985 , when family reunions had been arranged under the auspices of the Red Cross [ see pp. 34165-66 ] . |