Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 2 | I 've been made to look an awful fool … so humiliated … |
| 3 | Secondly , we have been trying to develop an understanding of locality in human agency ; one responsive not only to social or cultural processes but also to instinctive demands and human interaction . |
| 4 | A number of senior members of the hospitality industry have been invited to form an editorial panel , which will advise on the content of Hospitality . |
| 5 | At the end of this process , the salesperson may find it useful to summarise the points that have been raised to confirm an understanding with the buyer . |
| 6 | The Democrats have been calling Mr Bush 's aid plan ‘ grossly inadequate ’ and have been determined to produce an alternative that would increase the aid to the eastern European countries . |
| 7 | I have been asked to write an account of the social welfare programme of the Gulbenkian Foundation from 1964 to 1990 . |
| 8 | Q I have been asked to make an outside sign in timber for my bowls club . |
| 9 | Attempts have been made to demonstrate an evolution from interpretation based on the letter ( or verba ) to that based on the spirit ( or intention or voluntas ) . |
| 10 | Given this continuing policy vacuum on the one hand and the implacable opposition of the judiciary to any attempts to fill it on the other , it is not altogether surprising that few attempts have been made to fashion an overall criminal justice strategy that would bring together sentencing and penal policy . |
| 11 | JEREMY Irons ' steamy love scenes with Juliette Binoche in the film Damage have been shortened to avoid an adult rating , despite protests that they were artistic and necessary to the plot . |
| 12 | Dairy products , most notably cheese , have been shown to have an inflammatory effect on scalp conditions . |
| 13 | Several cytokines have been shown to play an important role in the regulation of AP response . |
| 14 | Subsequently , the microsomal fractions of human platelets have been shown to contain an enzyme which converts the endoperoxides , prostaglandin G 2 and H 2 to thromboxane A 2 , and the enzyme has been designated thromboxane synthetase ( Needleman et al , 1976 ) . |
| 15 | Realist approaches ( see Sayer , 1984 ) have been used to provide an alternative to positivism on the one hand and historicism on the other . |
| 16 | In some situations , such as providing purely factual information , this may be the case , but insensitive memos have been known to have an adverse effect on the motivation of others and their willingness to carry out instructions . |
| 17 | Borehole break-outs have been found to give an indication of stress anisotropy thereby enabling the fracture orientation to be predicted . |
| 18 | Where drug actions are known , they have been found to exert an effect on the body 's metabolic processes — that is , our inner chemical workings — inhibiting or stimulating enzyme function or having an effect on their control mechanisms . |
| 19 | Key personnel have been interviewed using an open unstructured personal questionnaire approach . |
| 20 | These have been recreated using an amazing new British technique which makes it possible to produce accurate facsimiles of ancient bodies . |