Example sentences of "been [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was seen as an unveiled hint of royal displeasure at Scots separatists ( the elaborate investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales , at a time when Welsh nationalism was acquiring an increasingly strident tone , had been intended to have a similar impact ) but it might also serve as a text for all the concerns of the monarchy . |
| 2 | Several wild song thrushes in different parts of Britain — and some blackbirds too — have been heard singing a new song that bears a striking resemblance to the distinctive electronic warble of British Telecom 's ‘ trimphones ’ . |
| 3 | In the fourth phase of progress , population-based antenatal screening — maternal serum alpha fetoprotein and ultrasound screening , sometimes complemented by amniocentesis — has been proven to have a substantial effect . |
| 4 | Ishmael had been reared experiencing a hard life in the desert , suffering from hunger , thirst , loneliness — but I need not think about that again — not today . |
| 5 | We banked to the left , following the precisely plotted curve of a bed of flowers , which had been arranged to form a living mosaic of the municipal crest . |
| 6 | The absence of such a universally adopted standard whereby the human conscience could have been developed to have a significant influence on human behaviour , has been the cause of much failure in efforts to administer justice . |
| 7 | The morphological analysis and dictionary system of the ANLT ( Ritchie et al , 1987a ) have been developed to provide a large coverage , morphological lexicon . |
| 8 | The needle rule has been broken to give a neat edge on both sides of the band . |
| 9 | The rule has been amended to insert a new paragraph ( 4A ) ( a ) to deal with multi-national partnerships . |
| 10 | The situation is so extreme that the New Age Music Association has been formed to gain a fairer hearing for its exponents . |
| 11 | From the Palace of Holyroodhouse , a very special order has been received to weave a spectacular new carpet for the historic Throne Room within the Palace itself . |
| 12 | The interior of the Bond Street shop has been remodelled to incorporate a new showroom on the first floor . |
| 13 | Moreover , this member of the unit had not been permitted to fire a single shot in the flame and slaughter of the city 's last days . |
| 14 | Therefore , the lighting that had been installed to provide a normal level of additional illumination could not be described as plant . |
| 15 | PCB residues in the blubber of the California bottlenose dolphin also exceeded previously published concentrations for cetaceans from all other parts of the world , except perhaps the Mediterranean coast of France , which have been reported to have a maximum concentration of over 2500 ppm . |
| 16 | The cytoprotective mechanism of this barrier is not yet completely understood , although surface active phospholipids have been reported to play a key role in gastric cytoprotection . |
| 17 | In their longitudinal study , they were surprised how many of the women who had been considered to have a supportive marital relationship when first interviewed became depressed after a later crisis . |
| 18 | Talks between the ruling AP and the opposition MNR , CONDEPA and MBL , which had been convoked to resolve a political crisis which had arisen in November over the political role played by the Supreme court , many of whose members were linked with the MNR [ see pp. 37851-52 ] , broke down in March 1991 . |
| 19 | It had been expected to pose a strong challenge to the BNP , but in the event gained less than 30 per cent of the seats . |
| 20 | Both men were from Cabinda and had been expected to play a crucial role during the September election campaign in capturing support among non-Ovimbundu ethnic groups particularly in the north . |
| 21 | The first two years of the course have been designed to provide a strong foundation in the principles and practice of information system design and implementation , an understanding of basic concepts in computing and supporting studies , and the practical skills and experience required to perform a useful role in industry . |
| 22 | The point here is that institutions are useful only if they have been designed to achieve a particular purpose . |
| 23 | Whether or not the procession from the Ravenhill Church and the barracking of the Presbyterian Church Assembly had been designed to constitute a direct challenge to the government , things were moving rapidly in that direction . |
| 24 | Helped by Mr Jorge Vicente , they have spent many years sorting and cataloguing the 100,000-plus glass negatives , and further collections from other old photography studios have been added to make a complete photographic history of the island and those who visited it . |
| 25 | I 've been dying to make a good ginger pudding for years ! |
| 26 | Dock Workers Union leaders have been meeting to consider a national dock strike over Government plans to scrap the jobs for life scheme . |
| 27 | Since then the ILN has been seeking to find a new readership . |
| 28 | Most of this work has been done using a standard binocular light microscope with variable ×8 to ×40 magnification , but extensive use has also been made of the scanning electron microscope . |
| 29 | I imagined that this might have been done to obliterate a directional ‘ fix ’ to throw treasure hunters off the scent . |
| 30 | Where great houses , from the middle ages into the seventeenth century , had been built to contain a single household in an ordered hierarchy beneath one roof , their classical counterparts in the eighteenth century and Regency became increasingly an expression of stratification into two quite distinct classes , though as yet on nothing like the scale of the grand Victorian house . |