Example sentences of "[been] [verb] in a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 5 | The right to abortion on psychological or social grounds had not been included in a more restrictive earlier draft . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Because the recommendations in our Report have been prepared in a relatively short time , some changes will almost certainly prove necessary in the light of experience . |
| 8 | ‘ This has been done in a very formal and proper way . ’ |
| 9 | A pregnant woman and her three-year-old son have been injured in a head-on crash involving a stolen car . |
| 10 | An initial point is that the LDDC could not have been operating in a more favourable environment . |
| 11 | A World Bank spokesman responded to the leak by denying that the memo in any way represented Bank policy , and adding that it had been written in a deliberately ironic tone in order to provoke internal debate within the organization . |
| 12 | It has also been seen in a more subtle form in the moves in Sierra Leone in the 1970s and Liberia in the 1980s by the ‘ truly indigenous ’ or tribal population to take economic power away from the creole population which had been active in trading and business for more than a century . |
| 13 | This tectono-stratigraphic model has also been used in a very tentative way to predict broad facies relationships . |
| 14 | Many of his battle-weary colleagues , three years later , may regard his enthusiasm with some cynicism but most would agree with him that the nature of management in the NHS has been transformed in a relatively short space of time . |
| 15 | RIGHT The evidence from the site and the excavation itself has been reconstructed in a very vivid way at the Jorvik Viking centre , and is a very popular attraction for visitors from all over the world . |
| 16 | This explains the abundance of deltaic sediments in the stratigraphical record of the continental areas , but one must also expect that such sediments will either not exceed a critical maximum thickness , such as that suggested above , or they must have been deposited in a tectonically subsiding trough . |
| 17 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 18 | The question of endangerment has already been raised in a more general fashion in Chapter 7.7 . |
| 19 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 20 | Dramatic , swagged deep blue and pink chintz curtains are an attractive feature and are complemented by the furniture that has been upholstered in a slightly paler blue . |
| 21 | I wonder also if the book might not have been packaged in a more sensible manner . |
| 22 | An aged woman , said Dr. Goldsmith , had been admitted in a most horrible condition of neglect . |
| 23 | The Liberals , although the smallest of the three parties , would seem to be the only party whose programme had not been rejected by the electors ; and , as the only party which could co-operate with either of the other two , it would seem to have been put in a particularly strong position by the result of the election . |
| 24 | Shelley was beginning to see that she had been put in a very special place of importance in Miguel 's confidence . |
| 25 | But in Washington these overtures , which happen to have been delivered in a thoroughly unorthodox way , are being sniffed at most gingerly . |
| 26 | However , a similar leitmotiv of HMI and DES documents , the high level of mismatching of tasks assigned by teachers to pupils and pupils ' ability , has been explored in a carefully researched programme undertaken by Bennett and Desforges ( 1985 ) . |
| 27 | Hypotheses , then , help us to refine theory by bringing more details into consideration in areas of research which may previously have only been explored in a rather sketchy way . |
| 28 | ‘ I regret that this whole matter could not have been handled in a more constructive manner . ’ |
| 29 | After their visit custodians noticed that a sketchbook ‘ had been mutilated in a very clumsy manner , by the abstraction of several leaves containing an unknown number of sketches or drawings . ’ |
| 30 | One of the Quorn had been discovered in a very loose-box with a girl from the Cotswold and dropped from his team . |