Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [adj] or " in BNC.

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1 This philosophy , though on a far grander scale , can be observed in practice in such great gardens as Sissinghurst in Kent and Hidcote Manor in Gloucestershire , where similar plants and colour combinations have been placed in walled or hedged parts of the larger garden .
2 A unique opportunity to study lateral specialization of function in the human brain is provided by those patients who have been treated by left or right hemispherectomy for malignant tumour or for convulsions associated with infantile hemiplegia .
3 A further difficulty has arisen concerning the priority which has been given to judicial or quasi-judicial measures in the attempt to suppress racist discourses .
4 Divisions may have been formed for administrative or historical reasons , which do not necessarily produce organizational units which are identical with SBUs .
5 The answer will depend on what assumptions are made about whether the £24,000 invoiced in 1989 had been included in full or in part in the 1989 accounts .
6 For adult offenders these had for many years been confined to absolute or conditional discharges , fines and probation orders .
7 Local authority planning policies might require an applicant to demonstrate first that a proposed development required a coastal location and , if this was the case , to show that recyclable coastal sites had been considered before undeveloped or partly developed coastal sites were targeted .
8 For the first time there is access to the Crown Room for wheelchairs , and full-size ‘ hands-on ’ replicas of the Regalia have been made for blind or partially-sighted visitors .
9 ‘ The action is an action for money had and received ; and it is brought upon this ground ; namely , that the money was paid to the defendant without any consideration ; the duty , for which , and in respect of which he received it , not having been imposed by lawful or sufficient authority to warrant the same .
10 ‘ The action is an action for money had and received ; and it is brought upon this ground ; namely , that the money was paid to the defendant without any consideration ; the duty , for which , and in respect of which he received it , not having been imposed by lawful or sufficient authority to warrant the same .
11 Survival , l(x) , and fertility , m(x) , in the two sexes , as a function of time since eclosion , for lines of Drosophila melanogaster which had been selected for early or late reproduction .
12 Publication of the disclosed material during the recent criminal appeal hearing , even had it been total , would no more rid it of its prima facie immunity than had it been aired in disciplinary or criminal proceedings brought against the police officers concerned , the situation expressly envisaged in Makanjuola 's case .
13 But she well she did n't , I mean she did n't tell me the intimate details or anything I do n't even know whether she has , she wo , she might have ju ge , been getting over dramatic or something !
14 A report published in London on the same day by the human rights organization Amnesty International claimed that over 200 people arrested in late 1990 had died or been executed in military or police custody .
15 Again , according to Bernstein ( 1975 ) , Ball ( 1981 ) , and many more , schooling can have opposite effects on children according to whether children have been socialized into working-class or middle-class aspirations , and according to the actual way the schooling process is structured by the state , the teachers , and the subject-disciplines .
16 Most of the views dealt with in the following sections have been influenced by Marxist or Weberian theories of stratification .
17 Its distribution again emphasises that the dispersal of some rare imports may have been governed by social or political factors .
18 Fossil owls are known from the Eocene , and some living genera have been identified in Miocene or even Oligocene deposits ( Brodkorb , 1971 ; Walker , in Burton , 1973 ) .
19 The parent figures as a group showed gross excesses of psychiatric disturbance , physical illness and disability , and criminality , and the abusing parent had often been subjected to physical or mental abuse or neglect in their own childhood .
20 They too failed to make any significant impact , and many struggling churches have either been forced to close or to relocate in the suburbs following the migration pattern of their members .
21 In April AI called on the Mauritanian Government to investigate reports that up to 200 political prisoners had died or been killed in military or police custody — some executed without trial and many others as a result of torture .
22 While the Scottish Wildlife Trust has for some time had a system for identifying second tier biological sites , primarily as a conservation mechanism , no such system has been created for geological or geomorphological sites , until now .
23 Firstly , the land forces units shown here are those which have been deployed in full or in significant part .
24 RENFE repeatedly complained that deficit financing weakened management ‘ which has not been motivated by economic or commercial considerations but purely by technical ones ’ ( RENFE 1971m : 49 ) .
25 Popular movements between the late fourteenth and the early sixteenth centuries are best understood in the broader context of developments in peasant society , even although most such risings seem to have been prompted by political or fiscal considerations rather than by social grievances .
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