Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With the passing of the FSA 1986 regulation has been placed on a far more formal rule-orientated basis than previously . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | High-precision and high-resolution geochemical mapping have been developed to a very high standard by BGS . |
| 7 | Regional geochemical studies , including high-precision and high-resolution geochemical mapping , have been developed to a very high standard by the BGS . |
| 8 | It 's great to see how the prototype has been developed into a commercially viable design . |
| 9 | Now the estate is in the hands of Dr Douglas Wise and Coldingham Loch has been developed into a very attractive fishery . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On 19 July Roberts and Cross wrote to Dr John Lawrence at SWWA suggesting that the public had been exposed to a more serious hazard than had been admitted : they were told that they could meet Lawrence but he would give them no information . |
| 17 | Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition . |
| 18 | The right to abortion on psychological or social grounds had not been included in a more restrictive earlier draft . |
| 19 | What had really occurred was that the Hollywood style had been updated and a large number of films had been located in a more contemporary urban setting . |
| 20 | This well has been drilled through a tectonically stressed area , as demonstrated by the hole break-out displayed in Fig. 11 . |
| 21 | As a child , she had been dominated by a slightly older brother . |
| 22 | The 1984 general election [ see pp. 33327-28 ] had been dominated by a hastily assembled NNP coalition , from which the current NDC , TNP and NNP originated . |
| 23 | This , incidentally , throws some doubt on the efficacy In addition to the aggradation of the lower reaches of river valleys , the Post-glacial rise of sea level caused widespread aggradation of any lowlands which had been eroded to a sufficiently low level . |
| 24 | Animals give the appearance of having been designed by a theoretically sophisticated and practically ingenious physicist or engineer , but there is no suggestion that the bats themselves know or understand the theory in the same sense as a physicist understands it . |
| 25 | The archaeological evidence suggests that silver first came into use on a substantial scale during the third millennium B.C. It was not until metallurgy had been carried to a relatively advanced level of sophistication that the production of silver in any quantity became practicable . |
| 26 | At least two separate groups of birds do it , and it has been carried to a very high level of sophistication by dolphins and whales . |
| 27 | The results , announced a few days later , made it clear that the proposition had been carried by a very large majority . |
| 28 | Staffing was included , though a ratio of 50:50 between expenditure on salaries and materials , thought to be reasonable at that time , has since been distorted by a much greater proportion of expenditure going to staffing . |
| 29 | Throughout most of this period the focus has been on government records and then mainly at a national level , although in rare instances the issues have been addressed at a more local level . |
| 30 | Now , if the depression has been preceded by a particularly deep-going crisis , equilibrium may be established at such a low level of activity that the volume of fixed capital currently being produced may well be considerably smaller than that which would allow for the time-proportional replacement of fixed capital at the previous average rate . |