Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 2 | All this implies , as has been pointed out in the collected evidence presented to the 1987 Select Committee inquiry into the implementation of the 1981 Education Act ( cf vol 2 of the evidence ) , and to many others since then involved in attempts at educational reform : |
| 3 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | But these problems have apparently been ironed out in the current batch of models . |
| 5 | the Business has been carried on in the ordinary and usual course and in the same manner ( including nature and scope ) as in the past and no unusual or abnormal contract differing from the ordinary contracts necessitated by the nature of its business has been entered into ; and |
| 6 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 7 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 8 | Ms Capaldi said a considerable amount of work on data had been carried out in the five months since the report was published . |
| 9 | Most studies on the management control process have been carried out in the private sector with profit-orientated organizations . |
| 10 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 11 | A decade ago its dowdy department stores had more or less been written off in the frantic race to carve up the high street . |
| 12 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 13 | It was the first time an Iraqi plane has been shot down in the southern no-fly zone , set up to prevent Saddam attacking the Shi'ites . |
| 14 | Most of these options have been closed out in the last two decades . |
| 15 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 16 | Many 's the night he 's been called out in the small hours … ’ |
| 17 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
| 18 | A prelude to 1811 – 12 had been played out in the woollen districts of Wiltshire between 1799 and 1802 . |
| 19 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 20 | The United Unionist Action Council , which had been set up in the early summer of 1976 , had a slow and troubled start . |
| 21 | LGCM had been set up in the 1970s ; it rented a room in St Botolph 's , Aldgate , a church well-known for work with single homeless people in London . |
| 22 | A new Validated Courses Section has therefore been set up in the Advanced Courses Unit of the Assessment Department : its initial tasks will be : |
| 23 | Our proposals for developing this policy have been set out in the White Papers on ‘ Competing for Quality ’ in central and local government . |
| 24 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 25 | Salisbury had been laid out in the thirteenth century , rather in the fashion of the twentieth century garden cities . |
| 26 | Outside , the gardens have been laid out in the Italian style , with wide staircases from level to level , which should look spectacular when more mature . |
| 27 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 28 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 29 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 30 | Subsequently , when the remedy is given to treat sick people , other symptoms that had not been brought out in the Proving are noted to be cured by the remedy and if this happens repeatedly then those symptoms are added to the picture of that remedy . |