Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can even scan for viruses that would normally be missed by a standard scanner because it would have been hidden away in an archive file . |
| 2 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 3 | This was carried out by Sachs ( 1967 ) and it compared recall of sentences which had just been heard with recall of sentences which had been heard earlier in a passage . |
| 4 | His name had been leaked inadvertently in a press interview which I had given and someone had traced his whereabouts . |
| 5 | Debates followed in parliament with the Unionists in full cry , for the Liberals seemed to have been caught out in a case of open corruption . |
| 6 | He had been dropped there in a sack . |
| 7 | It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin . |
| 8 | Conversations with pupils about ‘ handicap ’ have already been carried out in a pilot study . |
| 9 | We are also able to certificate any module where the training and assessment has been carried out in a language other than English . |
| 10 | SCOTVEC can certificate any module where training and assessment has been carried out in a language other than English ; an endorsement appears on the Learning Outcomes Statement accompanying the Record of Education and Training indicating the language used . |
| 11 | Experiments have therefore been carried out in an effort to examine this question in subjects with intact brains . |
| 12 | The only consolation was that a series of valuable recces had been carried out in an area they had not previously visited . |
| 13 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 14 | She could n't believe that anyone as nice as Angelica could have been mixed up in an insurance swindle . |
| 15 | All the music here was recorded at the ‘ Fiddlesticks ’ Festival held at University College , Cork , in January of this year , before an enthusiastic audience — and a sober one , by the sound of it : although this is music that lives in the pubs , it seems to have been presented here in a concert that took it seriously , with real respect . |
| 16 | Oyster farming is certainly possible , and it 's been done successfully in a number of places . |
| 17 | 16–7- Duncan McGilvray , a Deacon , who had been seen publicly in a state of intoxication was ordered to be publicly rebuked . |
| 18 | Passive solar techniques have been used successfully in a number of British buildings . |
| 19 | Debt-for-equity swaps have been used before in a number of South American countries , including Argentina , as banks have sought different ways of tackling the region 's chronic debt problem . |
| 20 | When he and others advocated extra divisions in the Edwardian period they could not have foreseen that the formation of a Third Division in 1920 would create an extra demand for players of talent at a time when a large part of the male population had been wiped out in a world war . |
| 21 | It is native to China and has been cultivated successfully in a number of countries , including Iran , Turkey , India and the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | The steam boiler had been set up in a shed at the back of the offworlder 's house . |
| 23 | A FEARLESS new organisation has been set up in a bid to finally solve the world 's greatest murder mystery the assassination in Dallas of American president John F. Kennedy . |
| 24 | Since the article was published , a number of schemes have been set up in an attempt to improve the quality of child minding . |
| 25 | The second task was to stand on some planks of wood which had been set out in a hexagon . |
| 26 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 27 | Our policy , both for nuclear and conventional defence , is clear , has been set out in a number of documents and is properly costed . |
| 28 | Once the topics had been set out in an order which would make sense to the recipients ( in this case of a postal questionnaire ) then the questions could be worked out . |
| 29 | There are two problems in analysing tasks : one is to acquire the evidence on which to base the task description , the other is to record what has been found out in a way such that other people , notably the interface designers and the personnel specialists , can use it effectively to assist in their work . |
| 30 | The car had been stolen earlier in a raid in Freelands then driven over 20 miles to the isolated village of Milcombe near Banbury . |