Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops . |
| 2 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 3 | The following sentences have been partially transcribed , but the vowels have been left blank . |
| 4 | Schools have been given greater autonomy and greater exposure to market forces , both of which are significantly altering their information requirements . |
| 5 | The 12 staff employed in European offices have been made redundant . |
| 6 | The twelve staff employed in European offices have been made redundant . |
| 7 | Milkmen have been collecting tinned foods and medicine from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 8 | In recent years dismissals have been justified much more in terms of the need to rationalize the labour force in the face of external economic problems which are compounded by Japan 's ageing population . |
| 9 | These anomalous crustal fragments have been given various names-suspect terrane , allochthonous terrane-but we will use the term displaced terrane ( Note that in this book the spelling ‘ terrane ’ is used to refer to structural units whereas ‘ terrain' is applied in a topographic sense . ) |
| 10 | ‘ And when you and your royal half-brother have been sucked dry of every drop of accursed wolfseed by the Frost Giantess ; when you have been deprived of every drop that might bear fruit in some unknown womb and create another wolfcreatury , I shall give you both to the Soul Eaters . |
| 11 | Aideed 's fighters have been held responsible for killing 23 Pakistani UN peacekeeping troops on June 5 . |
| 12 | OVER the last two weeks special couriers have been delivering mysterious brown paper packages to literary editors around London . |
| 13 | Three backbenchers have been appointed junior whips : Mr Andrew Mackay , MP for Berkshire East , Mr Robert Hughes , MP for Harrow West and Mr James Arbuthnot , MP for Wanstead and Woodford . |
| 14 | For behind the public posturings , there 's no doubt that both of these gentlemen have been having more than a little local difficulty with their respective parties . |
| 15 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 16 | The world 's top fashion designers have been creating spectacular outfits to help raise funds for the charity Oxfam in its fiftieth year . |
| 17 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 18 | Sir — Both the government and the opposition parties have been given one clear ringing message by the voters in the election : that environmental issues are of little or no concern to them . |
| 19 | Madam Speaker , this announcement is now almost a year delayed the firm of Coopers and Lybrand have been paid one point six million pounds to come up with this ass access charging fiasco , surely this house in entitled to the , as entitled as the press to a full statement of the government 's intentions so that they can be answered by . |
| 20 | Both methods have been found reliable , but the former entails the additional work of defining what constitutes an acceptable answer for each item . |
| 21 | If , in the original solution , the functions f , g and M have been chosen such that the terms in ( 12.47 ) have already cancelled the terms and in S , then the new solution for M will be given by . |
| 22 | Recently , car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market . |
| 23 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 24 | But already candidates have been holding informal sessions , enticing potential voters with great banquets of slaughtered sheep . |
| 25 | In the second part of Table 6.6(b) all of the variables have been held constant except for , the correlation coefficient between the various portfolios and the market . |
| 26 | Three soccer fans accused of using forged banknotes have been set free by a judge in Turkey , and inflation 's dropped to its lowest level in thirty years . |
| 27 | Michael Heseltine had his own way at the Department of the Environment and will continue to do so at Trade and Industry , where supporters of his during the leadership contest have been given junior positions . |
| 28 | Following their success in a Dubai tournament in November , the Scots have been seeded first for an event in Canberra on March 13 which opens their tour . |
| 29 | The slabs of rock have been worn smooth like well-used soap . |
| 30 | Both sets of data have been normalised such that the lowest value is equal to 1 . |