Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And match referee Deryck Murray remains baffled as to why his report has been tucked away in some International Cricket Council file . |
| 2 | ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time . |
| 3 | Mary Henderson , Greek by birth , had first come across Laura Ashley in Paris when she and her husband had been posted there in 1975 . |
| 4 | By the day before the completion of sale all the goods in her house had been gathered together in one room downstairs , some packed in wooden crates , some in black leather cases and tapestry bags , some still living free . |
| 5 | Among the canonist collectors and commentators at Bologna ( and probably also in Rome from time to time ) were the Englishmen , Gilbert and Alan , whose importance in canon law scholarship has been recognized only in recent years . |
| 6 | This has been altered greatly in later times and was neglected in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | So dear Dr. Godman I feel I have been treated badly in this case and would be grateful if you would pursue this matter further . |
| 8 | At the time of the revolution there was a great deal of speculation about the Ceauşescus ' wealth which , it was often claimed , had been stashed away in Swiss banks . |
| 9 | " Thus in the case of two drops of water " he says — " we can abstract altogether from all internal difference ( of quality and quantity ) , and the mere fact that they have been intuited simultaneously in different spatial positions is sufficient justification for holding them to be numerically different . |
| 10 | Burmeister 's porpoise has been caught incidentally in gill-net fisheries in Peru for many years . |
| 11 | The A M A clause which has been included now in many of the contracts and the tender documents was a clear demonstration of the work done between the front bench , Walworth Road and the local government trade unions . |
| 12 | Previously they had been grouped together in one modern frame . |
| 13 | They said that no English forward scouts had been reported anywhere in this vicinity ; nor had the Earl made any direct contact with them . |
| 14 | The regional differences in house prices have been considered earlier in this chapter ( and in Table 9.1 , column 6 ) . |
| 15 | Some of these clauses have been considered earlier in this chapter . |
| 16 | Although it could be assumed by some that this is a development towards a more specialized and fragmented approach it may alternatively be a foundation for a more unified approach and one which accommodates the necessity to combine understanding at the microphysiology and biochemistry ( realist ? ) level with that at the biome level which had traditionally been approached more in functional terms . |
| 17 | The principle , adopted in 1834 , that wages should not be subsidized had been carried forward in social security legislation , but the margin between the income of those in work and those out of work sometimes made the principle of ‘ less eligibility ’ appear under threat . |
| 18 | She ignored it ; I 've been wounded already in this battle , brother . |
| 19 | I conjure you by the bitter tears shed on the Cross by our Saviour the Lord JESUS Christ for the salvation of the world , and by the burning tears poured in the evening hour over His wounds by the most glorious Virgin MARY , His Mother , and by all the tears which have been shed here in this world by the Saints and Elect of God from whose eyes He has now wiped away all tears , that if you be innocent you do now shed tears , but if you be guilty that you shall by no means do so . |
| 20 | Waiting times for outpatient appointments have been collected prospectively in 10 outpatient pain clinics ( eight in Scotland and two in the Northern Region Health Authority ) over the past three years . |
| 21 | For more theoretical work on the marriage relationship and how far marriage is at the root of the oppression of women , readers should refer to the work of Christine Delphy — a French radical feminist — whose work has recently been collected together in Close to Home : a materialist analysis of women 's oppression ( Delphy , 1984 ) ; her work has been directly criticised from a socialist perspective by Michele Barrett and Mary McIntosh ( Barrett and McIntosh , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | It is the task of the sociologist to understand all this , to find out what has been done already in this field , to see what light the general background of religious and familial studies can shed on this particular social act , and to formulate original ideas in a more explicitly sociological fashion . |
| 23 | It has been done before in similar circumstances . |
| 24 | The Duma 's powers , severely restricted from the start , had been curtailed further in 1907 . |
| 25 | That is a helpful and positive scheme which has been developing successfully in recent years . |
| 26 | Associations between glycaemic control and parameters of platelet function have been sought both in cross-sectional studies and prospective studies and conflicting findings have been reported . |
| 27 | As has been said elsewhere in this book athletics reflects the society in which it exists and the experiences of Linford , his family and black British athletes mirror exactly those of the majority of black British citizens . |
| 28 | Enough has been said even in this brief review to make the point that when men wished to designate sanctity or degrees of sanctity it was to the hierarchy of precious substances that they turned for appropriate symbols . |
| 29 | There was particular resistance within the camp of the Official Unionist candidate in South Antrim and , not until the final pre-nomination meeting of coalition party leaders in the Seagoe Hotel , Portadown , was it confirmed that the point had been conceded even in that constituency . |
| 30 | For most developing countries the gains in trade from all such policies have been made primarily in price-sensitive goods . |