Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mistrust even more two leaves that have been joined together to fabricate a bifolium . |
| 2 | The bark had been stripped away leaving a bright damp patch . |
| 3 | Their letters and diaries have been threaded together to provide a fresh perspective on the lives of young airmen during times when their survival statistics were grim . |
| 4 | The walls were covered in oatmeal-covered sackcloth , and in the centre two heavy tables had been pushed together to form a single one that looked absurdly big for the eight tweed-covered office chairs around it . |
| 5 | As a result of demand , the variety of door styles has been expanded greatly to include a wide range of wood effect panels , some very beautiful wood veneers , wallpapered panels and for those who wish to achieve total co-ordination in their chosen decor — the fabric covered panel . |
| 6 | Sheltered shore whelks seem to have been selected more to maintain a balance with K , the carrying capacity of the environment . |
| 7 | But the reform of the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy , or CAP which has just been agreed barely makes a nod to organic farmers . |
| 8 | Glass that has been buried usually develops a distinctive iridescence and onion-skin texture . |
| 9 | The notion of response competition has been used here to provide a framework for an intervention . |
| 10 | Regency stripe , classical motifs and rich wood have been used here to achieve a formal style that is also very natural . |
| 11 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 12 | An in vitro transcription assay has been used previously to probe a variety of drug-DNA interactions ( 10 ) and has been utilised for bidirectional transcription footprinting of drug sites on DNA ( 11,12 ) . |
| 13 | Remember , in five years , time , most of these people will either be press officers ( doing the same as you are , but with less loving care ) or they will have been kicked upstairs to edit a page instead of writing on it , thereby saving readers from any more of their insufferable prose . |
| 14 | The congress had been called specifically to resolve a crisis evident since November 1989 concerning factional splits over the independence question . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the purse strings have been loosened sufficiently to provide a palatable enough feast . |
| 16 | A £500,000 budget has been set aside to create a press office to represent him in Brussels , in addition to Dublin 's existing one . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been brought here to give a full account of Captain Meredith 's dealings . |
| 18 | Without going into detailed calculations which readers can obtain for themselves , the concept has been introduced here to provide a clear distinction between internal operating efficiency and action on relative prices . |
| 19 | Under a slab of rock which lay propped at an angle the earth had been scraped away to make a shallow burrow and lying in it , curled up comfortably on his side like a sleeping dormouse was a boy . |
| 20 | The Quad X contains no less than nine 12AX7 valves which have been coupled together to provide a more complex , hence richer , overdrive . |
| 21 | Tendring Council 's Dog Owners pack has been put together to tackle a range of pooch problems including strays , fouling and dangerous dogs . |
| 22 | The hypothesis of the nature and origin of the Created God as has been expounded herein provides a means whereby God can be defined and given an origin in evolutionary terms , and from there on in broader terms to embrace human civilisation . |
| 23 | There were cigarette burns on the carpet , and here and there the brown of the walls had been rubbed away to reveal a pinkish surface beneath . |
| 24 | These three publications , and their extracts , have been chosen deliberately to give a flavour of the planning viewpoint of the time , from very different perspectives . |