Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Such a clause does not relieve the parties from the obligation to register a registrable sale agreement , it merely suspends the operation of the relevant restrictions until particulars of the agreement have been furnished to the OFT . |
2 | Its attempt to make farmers pay for the pollution they caused had been overturned by the environmentally primitive MAFF . |
3 | In consequence of its importance as a relic of local industrial archaeology , the mill has been listed as a building of architectural or historic interest ( Grade II ) , a status which has not been jeopardised by the very careful treatment of the building by its present owners in their continuing programme of conversion and conservation . |
4 | The aristocracy — ie. titled landowners — do still exist and have been joined by the very wealthy ( through ownership or investment ) : it has been reckoned that this 1% of adult population owns one-quarter of all the wealth in Britain . |
5 | The perceptual side of the Umwelt has received less attention than the motor aspect , the study of animal perception ( as opposed to sensory physiology or discriminative behaviour ) having been inhabited by the explicitly anti-mentalistic bias of behaviourism . |
6 | Paisley 's whole career has been distinguished by a finely developed sense of symbolism and an event like the imprisonment was not to be wasted . |
7 | With the passing of the FSA 1986 regulation has been placed on a far more formal rule-orientated basis than previously . |
8 | It may be that in New South Wales , Category 3 , which carries the seven-year penalty , has been constructed too broadly and that some conduct which it covers should have been placed within the more serious categories . |
9 | To some degree , the MDC has been placed in a particularly onerous position because of its having to compete for industrial and commercial investment with surrounding new towns and the local enterprise zone and Freeport . |
10 | They also tend to remain positive for a very long time , if not indefinitely , unless the infection has been treated in the very early stages . |
11 | My — though not necessarily her — interpretation of this observation leads me to ask whether in fact the capacity to show LTP might not be a purely artefactual phenomenon , which occurs only in animals which have been reared in the highly restricted environment of a research laboratory ? |
12 | The chances are that her shock has been compounded by an unexpectedly extreme reaction . |
13 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
14 | It was built in 1960 and the original leather interior has been re-upholstered in a rather fetching magenta ( plum colour to you non-artistic types ) Dralon . |
15 | High-precision and high-resolution geochemical mapping have been developed to a very high standard by BGS . |
16 | Regional geochemical studies , including high-precision and high-resolution geochemical mapping , have been developed to a very high standard by the BGS . |
17 | It 's great to see how the prototype has been developed into a commercially viable design . |
18 | Now the estate is in the hands of Dr Douglas Wise and Coldingham Loch has been developed into a very attractive fishery . |
19 | Anyway , the implication of my argument , and of the neurological experiments to which I have referred , is that the functions of the left side of the brain have been developed in a very special way in the human species and that this specialization is reflected in the universals of human culture , including the general structure of language , all of which are reflections of the fact that the left side of the brain operates in binary logic . |
20 | Much attention has been given to the seemingly altruistic behaviour of dolphins , with various authors citing such examples as the way cetaceans will assist or stand by other ill , injured or stranded animals even to the point of their own death . |
21 | But as yet , however , much less attention has been given to an equally crucial dimension of local government activity — its capacity to actually achieve its policy intentions . |
22 | The speech , an undeniable disappointment , had indeed been given in an unusually dull monotone and at great speed . |
23 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
24 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
25 | Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour . |
26 | So we do n't want to be any under any illusions about that , and the same can be applied to the fact that we have made no real provision for nursery education , that we were in trouble over special needs in this county , that was a a requirement to restore services that were well below the S S A on Social Services , and we really all this er this er , new administration has done , has been brought those up , those services up to what would have been regarded as a quite an unacceptable level with most of the the the authorities in this country . |
27 | The research focus shifted to the role of the message in referential communication , and also to listeners who had hitherto been regarded as a somewhat passive element . |
28 | Gratitude to him has always been greater in the Orthodox churches of the East than in the West , where his domination of the church has often not been regarded as an altogether unmitigated good , at least in its consequences . |
29 | Throughout his lifetime he had been regarded as an excellently scientific psychologist who had shown that the level of a child 's intelligence has little to do with the child 's home environment ; instead it is a product of the intelligences of the child 's parents . |
30 | Of the 168 vacancies thus created , 42 were to be filled by new borough seats , including eight new London seats and seats for Manchester , Leeds , and Birmingham ; 55 were to be devoted to the provision of additional members for countries , to augment what had traditionally been regarded as the most " independent " element in the representative system ; and nine new places were to be given to Scotland , Ireland and Wales . |