Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [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 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 4 | The girl had been placed on a social services ‘ at risk ’ register after suffering a broken arm and collarbone in a fall . |
| 5 | Kielder Water , the largest man-made reservoir in Europe , surrounded by the largest man-made forest in Europe , was opened by HM The Queen in June 1982 , and has been developed into a major water-sports centre . |
| 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 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 8 | Pointon had been caught by a late Giggs tackle just before , and the referee decided that a strong word with the young Welshman , who had given United the lead with a goal worthy of crowning champions , was sufficient . |
| 9 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 10 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 11 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 12 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 15 | In Northampton a blind widow of eighty-two has been robbed of a thousand pounds at her home . |
| 16 | In the province of Alberta alone , public timberlands almost the size of the UK have been leased to a dozen firms . |
| 17 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 18 | The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere . |
| 19 | The best places for bottles in Montepulciano are the cool brick cantine like that of the Contucci Palace , cellars furred with black fungus where Vino Nobile has been produced for a thousand years . |
| 20 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 21 | Appropriately enough , one station in Canada , Harriston , Ontario , has been reused as a senior citizens ' recreation centre . |
| 22 | It had been bought with a United Nations grant of 1980 on the understanding that all the profits would be channelled discreetly into a numbered Swiss bank account to be used exclusively by UNICEF . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Lay Observer has been replaced with a Legal Services Ombudsman with rather wider powers than the Law Observer under provisions contained in Part II of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 25 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 26 | It has been detected in a dozen systems in the US and yesterday the Swiss government announced that 75 of its computers were infected . |
| 27 | The tour has been portrayed as a public relations disaster in many newspapers , with the emphasis placed on the apparent failure of the Prince and Princess to acknowledge each other 's presence in public . |
| 28 | Ted jerked up like a man who 'd been zapped with a thousand volts . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |