Example sentences of "[been] [verb] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On these occasions those temporary workers recruited were ex-employees — those who had been dismissed in recent downturns and who had been unable to find a new job . |
| 2 | And though the protracted battles between Congress and the Bush administration which have been waged in recent years are unlikely , Clinton 's proposals could be changed significantly by Congress prior to enactment . |
| 3 | The role of these polymorphisms in a predisposition to alcoholic liver disease has now been examined in two studies . |
| 4 | This hypothesis has been examined in several studies looking at the PiZ phenotype and periportal α 1 AT granules in patients and controls , and no evidence to support involvement of α 1 AT in genetic predisposition has been found . |
| 5 | To be fair to Lewis , he followed instructions more closely than in the past and jabbed his way in before breaking up Dixon , who had not been stopped in 15 fights . |
| 6 | The Poles ' sole contribution to history has been to indulge in foolish pranks , at once valiant and provocative . |
| 7 | This arrangement might well have been satisfactory , with some accommodation between the two sides being not too difficult to achieve , but for the rancour that had been aroused in recent years . |
| 8 | I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns . |
| 9 | And the substance of my apprehension is to be found in the formidable dossiers of attainment which have been catalogued in numerous obituaries over the past week . |
| 10 | Ferrin , the Northern Ireland 10,000 metres champion , has been impressing in half marathons recently and although he only finished third at Ballyclare he has the pedigree to sustain a challenge from early in the race . |
| 11 | Kites have been flown in all cultures at all times . |
| 12 | 1.21 The plaintiff 's rights in relation to medical examinations by the defendant 's doctor have been redefined in two cases . |
| 13 | Over centuries gypsies have been persecuted in varying degrees ; but now they are as much the victims of general trends and events taking place without regard to or for them . |
| 14 | Frodo indeed laughs himself : ‘ Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth . |
| 15 | Movie memorabilia is nothing new but cries of blaX-ploitation have been heard in some quarters . |
| 16 | That this energy under its various names appears to have been recognized in diverse cultures yet be almost totally ignored by orthodox science is in itself very interesting . |
| 17 | To the extent that social research more generally has retained an interest in social reform this has been redirected in various ways . |
| 18 | The form of monetary policy that has been favoured in recent years is the control of interest rates . |
| 19 | For example , it is now more than twenty years since team models of social service staff deployment began to be strongly advocated in the United States and , although actual research on this approach has been limited in recent years , good results were reported from the use of social service teams in a variety of settings , including mental hospitals ( Barker and Briggs , 1969 ) , public welfare departments ( Schwartz and Sample , 1967 ) and elsewhere ( Brieland et al . , |
| 20 | This assumption was universally accepted until recently by prehistorian and anthropologists , but has been refuted in recent studies of hunters and gatherers . |
| 21 | Indeed , no major studies of evacuation due to hazards have been undertaken in recent times and this is a widely recognized deficiency which no research funding body seems willing to rectify . |
| 22 | The British Journal of Photography were lavish in their praise for the quality of his work , which had been undertaken in difficult circumstances . |
| 23 | Classifications of political systems have been undertaken in diverse ways and for a variety of purposes . |
| 24 | A flight from positivism has been witnessed in recent years in the social sciences , and the argument appears to be now widely accepted that since knowledge is never the direct product of experience . |
| 25 | Whether a top-down or bottom-up approach is used , this categorization , though useful in creating a structure , often obscures similarities between items that have been placed in separate categories . |
| 26 | When the boys had been placed in good schools , William and Isabella spent much of their time travelling in Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 27 | The documents are technical , and I have arranged for them to be placed in all public libraries in Cardiff , and notices to that effect have been placed in local newspapers . |
| 28 | While you can buy a 50p leaflet and walk round the town yourself , looking for the small metal footsteps that have been placed in significant sites , it 's much more rewarding to go with one of the town 's Cadfael experts , like Esme Green . |
| 29 | Chair of the Fire Board , Councillor Bill Axon , said : ‘ The Fire Service has been perceived as a male-dominated , macho career where women ca n't participate , but it has been proven in other brigades that women can take part on an equal footing to males . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Let's at least try to solve the immediate problem with a practical step that has been proven in other parts of the country , ’ he said . |