Example sentences of "[vb base] been [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today at the fringe meeting where seventy odd people attended , I 've been inundated by people who 've come forward and said we wan na raise it , we wan na put instructions on the machines that dispense these . |
| 2 | We 've been approached by people asking about the Kangeroo scarers . |
| 3 | Well the , I mean the thing is that erm over the past erm we 've been recommended to people |
| 4 | A group of families living beside one of the region 's busiest commuter routes are facing a five-mile detour to get home , because they 've been marooned by roadworks.They say it 's making their lives a misery , and want engineers to make them a special short cut to improve things . |
| 5 | The world 's needy have been deprived of £10 billion of aid due to the cuts made by the present Government in Labour 's programme . |
| 6 | Most text retrieval systems have been based on statistics and probabilities . |
| 7 | Liability Indemnity Limits have been increased to £1,000,000 . |
| 8 | From the earliest times , electronic databases have been accessed by means of search and retrieval software . |
| 9 | The bream appear to be ravenous as they recover from spawning activities and have been joined by tench , carp and roach to give several outstanding catches . |
| 10 | Ordinary people have been coerced by minorities to perform the necessary tasks . |
| 11 | Butchers told to take care INFORMAL letters have been sent to butchers by Montgomeryshire District Council 's public health department drawing attention to the need for protective equipment in shops . |
| 12 | A spokesman at the store , which had knocked £70 off £220 cameras and up to £8 off computer games , said : ‘ We have been overloaded with people . |
| 13 | The figures have been converted at $0.629 to the German mark . |
| 14 | The figures have been converted at $0.0090497 to the Japanese yen . |
| 15 | The figures have been converted at $0.0090497 to the Japanese yen . |
| 16 | The figures have been converted at $0.00896 to the Japanese yen . |
| 17 | The figures have been converted at $0.5357 to the Dutch guilder . |
| 18 | The figures have been converted at $0.545 to the Dutch guilder . |
| 19 | Relatively few cloned genes have been assigned to 10p11.2-q11.2 , but these include several zinc finger ( ZNF ) protein genes ( 3-5 ) . |
| 20 | Losses before tax have been cut to $1.3m ( £800,000 ) for the six months to 30 June , compared with $15.1m in the same period last year , on sales up 14 per cent at $60.2m . |
| 21 | Costs have been cut by £70m this year and by about £170m a year since the start of the recession in 1990 . |
| 22 | As a bonus , IT operating costs have been cut by 40% . |
| 23 | Motorola Inc 's UDS Motorola in Huntsville , Alabama said it cut prices by up to 25% on several V.32 and V.32 bis modems , effective immediately : the list prices of the V.32L , V.3225L , V.3227L and V.3229L CCITT V.32 and V.32 bis compliant modems , have been cut by $200 each . |
| 24 | Mr Macdonald , his fellow Labour MP Norman Godman , and the Liberal Democrat MPs Ray Michie and Jim Wallace , have been condemned by shellfish growers for failing to understand the orders or their impact . |
| 25 | It 's unfair that this has been removed when tax breaks have been given to people who invest short-term in shares , property or new businesses through Personal Equity Plans and Business Expansion Schemes . |
| 26 | But , but a lot of the problems that come into our advice centre have been caused by people signing erm credit agreements and then realizing they ca n't afford the payments . |
| 27 | ‘ My parents have been pestered by people who want to know when I am coming home , ’ she said . |
| 28 | Only Chapman lacked any easily identifiable and stereotypical presence ( his cantankerous military type , who would interrupt the more outrageous sketches with a testy ‘ this is silly ! ’ , might just as well , or even better , have been played by Cleese ) . |
| 29 | The 70 year old was a popular man in the area and police have been flooded with people offering information , but they 're no nearer to catching his killer . |
| 30 | The accusations have been made to MPs investigating planning practices and housing in rural Wales . |