Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transverse effects have been examined in a few instances . |
| 2 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 3 | The degree of dispersion away from these concentrations has been limited by the same forces that have prevented low-income people in general from moving into suburban environments , combined with a desire for being amongst their own people in an essentially alien culture . |
| 4 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 5 | In a journey back through the history of crime and delinquency , Pearson shows that for generations Britain has been plagued by the same problems and fears as today . |
| 6 | To protect the spirit of demilitarisation , a convention has been followed that defence spending will not exceed 1 per cent of GNP , and although this ceiling has been broken on a few occasions , the 1 per cent target has a symbolic significance . |
| 7 | ‘ So far in our investigation we are aware of at least ten loyalist prisoners who have been interviewed by the same policemen . |
| 8 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 9 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 10 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 11 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 12 | Now and again , of course , you have to deal with the awkward moments , like someone reading aloud from a Sunday paper the ‘ sordid story of perverted vice ’ which has obviously been concocted over a few jars by a hack hounded by deadline . |
| 13 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 14 | It features beautiful and accurate facsimiles of the treasures of Tutankhamun , including the famous gold burial mask , specially produced for the Exhibition , many of which have been made from the same materials and in the same way as the originals . |
| 15 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 16 | Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning . |
| 17 | The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere . |
| 18 | And the same amount of things per head of the population will have been produced in the same ways by the same classes of people for many generations together ; and therefore this supply of the appliances for production will have had full time to be adjusted to the steady demand . |
| 19 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 20 | Previously , items such as tea , coffee , cocoa , sugar , jam , canned fruit , salmon and sardines had been sold from the same counters as their perishable equivalents . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 24 | In this respect his art and that of the New Sculptors differed little from the earlier romantic neo-classicism of a sculptor like , whose work would nevertheless have been decried by the same practitioners as cold and outmoded . |
| 25 | Well I think there is , there are n't many problem with the trained people because they 've been trained in the same areas as oneself and therefore understand what you 're on about . |
| 26 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 27 | He might look like an old man who 's been run over a few times to you , but to me … ’ he puffed his chest out even further ‘ … he 's a vicious criminal . ’ |
| 28 | From the beginning Jarrad had been run by the same directors as Jesner and run in good faith in what the directors perceived to be in the family 's interest . |
| 29 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 30 | However , the work has been put off a few weeks , so there 'll be plenty of room . |