Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] the [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Based on the experience that very few who opt to hold offers as insurance actually enrol , their numbers have been omitted from the later calculations . |
2 | Such systems , which are relatively cheap , have already been installed in the remoter parts of Scotland , Wales and East Anglia . |
3 | Numerous four-terminal networks of the passive linear type have been considered in the earlier chapters , for example , transformers , attenuators , filters and phase-shift networks . |
4 | The t table has since been superseded by the fatter chips and bigger bytes of modern computing ; the pop-up menus of today 's statistical packages tempt the unwary with an appetising range of p values hardly imaginable in 1965 . |
5 | Most of the grief appears to have been felt by the smaller shops . |
6 | Hitherto , only police had been used against the demonstrators who were demanding free elections , the resignation of the provincial leadership of the League of Communists ( LC ) , the release of political prisoners and the lifting of " special measures " which had been imposed amid the earlier riots of February 1989 [ see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ] . |
7 | Now a play 's been written about the darker days of his life in Worcestershire . |
8 | As has already been seen in the earlier chapters , the professions most often specified are surveyors , accountants , actuaries and engineers . |
9 | The British legal system is already in a bit of a sorry state but this is only part of the story because we are faced with a creaking Government bureaucracy that has often been shown by the Higher Courts to be acting in an illegal and unfair manner . |
10 | Some technological capabilities have been enhanced , but the main benefits have been restricted to the simpler parts of the industry . |
11 | Other sectors such as construction and trading houses have had different spurs to go abroad , but they too have been influenced by the earlier investors . |
12 | It simply is not true that the burden of taxation has been increased on the poorer members of society . |
13 | The supposed decline in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere would explain why the air-breathing animals had only been created in the later stages of the earth 's history . |
14 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
15 | However , lessons have been learnt since the earlier transformations . |