Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six . |
| 2 | Lack of breakage , however , only characterizes some of the owl assemblages , but there has been little published on this subject . |
| 3 | The castle had not been properly maintained for many years and after the auction it was allowed to crumble . |
| 4 | Erm the caravan sites act nineteen sixty eight er , paragraph fifteen did actually , I think address the provision government sites quite well , or it would have if it had actually been properly implemented in that there was a carrot and stick , there was stick or requirement |
| 5 | I do n't think this point has been properly understood by many people who have been given the impression that the films are a kind of expensive toy , when in fact you are the first conductor in history to use film as an integral extension of your work as an interpretative artist . |
| 6 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 7 | Gerald Egan 's model of ‘ The Skilled Helper ’ has been widely adopted as most suitable for this type of advice work . |
| 8 | Strike action on the coalfields was the major catalyst for the 1926 General Strike , and the miners have been widely perceived for several decades as at the forefront of trade union militancy in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | Scholarships , Grants and Awards brochures and application forms are now available and have been widely circulated to all Sections and those who have requested them . |
| 10 | This exercise is valuable in helping to show how a distorted version of Freud 's ideas has been widely diffused within many institutional spheres of American life , from social work agencies to industrial management training , religious institutions , and to the private sphere of marriage and family life . |
| 11 | Predictive readability formulae such as those of Flesch ( 1948 ) and Dale and Chall ( 1948 ) have been widely used on both sides of the Atlantic for decades . |
| 12 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 13 | Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads . |
| 14 | On the basis of tests carried out in the North Sea by the Laboratory , Bayne believes that organic pollutants may be having a greater impact on marine life than heavy metals such as lead , mercury and cadmium , which had hitherto been widely blamed for most of the damage . |
| 15 | While conventional theories of ‘ modernization ’ have identified TNCs as carriers of democratic values and practices to the Third World , such views have been powerfully criticized from many quarters . |
| 16 | Short hair has been elegantly back-combed into this fabulous shape . |
| 17 | The deputy judge refused probate of the 1982 document on the grounds that it had not been duly executed in that , although the amendment by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 allowed a valid signature to be made otherwise than at the foot of the will , it had not altered the requirement that the testator should have made his will before signing it ; and that , in any event , the testator had lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 18 | The breed was initially dual-purpose , whatever its colour , but for the most part ceded its milking role to the neighbouring Ayrshire ; it has continued as a beef breed but has never been intensively developed for that role . |
| 19 | Maybe , when Lisabeth had been forcibly retired to some maximum security retirement home in Frinton ( as the sign said : ‘ Harwich for the Continent ; Frinton for the Incontinent ’ ) then I 'd consider it . |
| 20 | In ordinary parlance one might say that anyone who has been forcibly subjected to this offence has been raped ; the psychological effects are likely to be deep , and even if there is no risk of pregnancy ( as there is not from some rapes , since ejaculation is not part of the definition ) , there may be the risk of disease . |
| 21 | But though others may have been fundamentally changed by such sudden acclaim , little Loris knows full well that the challenge of the 1991 season is a much tougher one . |
| 22 | Thus to honour the first of the Roman emperors an orderly arrangement was reduced to an illogical jumble that many people find difficult to remember but which in the course of 2,000 years has been successfully imposed on most of the world . |
| 23 | This method has been successfully conducted by many researchers and is now a routine method in our laboratory . |
| 24 | Both the transition from one steady pattern to another and the onset of periodic unsteadiness can be understood as instability of the pre-existing type of convection — and indeed have been successfully analysed from that point of view . |
| 25 | Just such a programme has been successfully undertaken over many years by the Scottish Heatwise programme whose funding has never , alas , matched its innovation and enterprise . |
| 26 | When the problem of succession has to be solved , rules have to be formulated : charisma has to be routinized unless one charismatic leader has been successfully challenged by another . |
| 27 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 28 | Geophysical methods have been successfully applied to such mapping in two areas : at Coleorton , Leicestershire , where abandoned near-surface coal workings lie on the line of a new trunk road ; and at Hayle , Cornwall , where shafts of old copper mines were detected at the site of a new water-treatment plant . |
| 29 | The ETC has been successfully established for several years and is very well equipped to provide all travel needs at the most competitive prices . |
| 30 | The outreach approach has now been successfully attempted by many projects and institutions confirming the view of those who insist that educational institutions must be more open and outgoing if they are to provide a worthwhile community education service . |