Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gates or pens for pedestrian access and ‘ slot and bar ’ for cyclists have been installed to limit access to the intended users and keep out motor cyclists , cars and other unauthorised motor vehicles . |
| 2 | All other world class through dives have been made in places such as Florida , with crystal clear warm water and roomy passages , often using underwater scooters . |
| 3 | The result was the abolition in February 1844 of the Secret Office which for generations had been intercepting letters of possible interest to the government . |
| 4 | A comprehensive energy efficiency labelling scheme for houses has been launched by MVM , a consultancy specialising in property and planning information . |
| 5 | Remaining with the EC , calls for proposals have been issued for two major research and development programmes — the Environment Programme and RACE II ( Communications Technologies ) . |
| 6 | The motives for bequests have been discussed in Lecture 3 , where we noted that the formulation underlying ( 9–12 ) provides no explanation as to why bequests enter the utility function . |
| 7 | An initiation for prisoners had been established where for the first week officers were encouraged to violently beat and humiliate the new prisoner in nauseous ways . |
| 8 | Since then the exchange value of the currency has fallen by 78% , but any advantages for exports have been eroded by rising domestic prices . |
| 9 | And this general approach has been supported by recent sequencing studies , so the the channels have been er the C D N A for the channels has been sequenced , and that indicates that the evolutionary relationships between channels have been based er have arisen er pri primarily on the basis of their gating properties rather than on the basis of their ionic selectivity . |
| 10 | The change in the exchange rate would continue automatically until the price difference for cars had been eliminated . |
| 11 | Corporal Paul Moreton , 28 , of Nuneaton , and Trooper Denis Brownhill , 20 , of Birmingham were named after relatives had been located . |
| 12 | More large pay rises for directors have been revealed . |
| 13 | Thus when there was demand for training youth in drama the holder of the purse , the government , turned for advice not to educationalists , not to speech and drama experts ( although there was some overlap here ) , but to a small group of charismatic figures who for decades had been promoting community drama of one sort or another , promoting it by giving advice , by running courses , by setting up drama libraries of play-texts , by making links with professional theatre , by popularising competitive festivals . |
| 14 | It was our unclouded commitment to women , and greater insistence that the fundamentals of sexism should be tackled without compromise , that brought youth service attention back to the young women who for decades had been excluded by boys and men . |
| 15 | On April 7 Iran temporarily closed its borders with Iraq , claiming that all resources for refugees had been exhausted . |
| 16 | Representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been struggling to cope with the flood of refugees and have appealed to the international community to step up relief . |
| 17 | This does not mean that the economic functions of states have been diminished or are likely to fade away . |
| 18 | In recent years an increasing number of states have been attempting to remove the appointment of the judges from the partisan political process and to ensure minimum standards of efficiency and ability on the part of judges . |
| 19 | Once a variety of opinions have been considered including parent governors and staff and the implications of various alternatives have been explored parents need to be informed of the plans that have been made . |
| 20 | But while a sophisticated series of discourses has been developed to analyse the problems and conflicts in women 's experience , and especially the pain and anguish of women 's social , domestic , emotional , and sexual lives , the reasons why most women continue to define ourselves , and to practise as heterosexual have remained unexplored . |
| 21 | A task force of experts had been established to advise other countries in anti-drug strategies and the number of drug liaison officers working from UK embassies was being increased to 20 . |
| 22 | A committee of experts has been set up by the Russian Ministry of Culture to look into the problem of such articles within its borders . |
| 23 | At the suggestion of the European Community , which had been asked to mediate by the Czechoslovak and Hungarian governments , a panel of experts has been set up to assess the situation . |
| 24 | It is very common and all kinds of reasons have been put forward to explain its occurrence — from stress to microbial attack . |
| 25 | A variety of reasons have been put forward to explain these changes . |
| 26 | There is evidence of a Roman settlement as quite a number of coins have been ploughed up relating to this period in history . |
| 27 | A number of projects have been financed to produce re-usable tools . |
| 28 | In Denmark a variety of projects have been set up to deal specifically with the introduction of electronic data processing known as DUE ( an acronym for the Danish translation of Democracy Development and EDP ) . |
| 29 | A broad spectrum of projects has been supported , including repair yards for fishing boats , bulb growing , hotels , craft industries and an aluminium smelter . |
| 30 | Look at the way the pots of herbs have been tipped out . |