Example sentences of "been [verb] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Key personnel have been interviewed using an open unstructured personal questionnaire approach . |
| 4 | Containers : Where ponds have been installed using the preformed type of pool or the use of a flexible liner , the easiest and most convenient way to plant waterlilies is to use the specially-designed baskets made of strong plastic . |
| 5 | However , in the latter , reasonable control has been reported using an annual rotation of beef cattle and sheep . |
| 6 | Vessels from the cemeteries in north-east England , Baston and Elsham ( Lincolnshire ) , and Sancton ( East Yorkshire ) were found to have fabrics specific to the respective cemeteries , although they had been decorated using the same set of dies . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It can be used to cast off a group of stitches at , say , the last row of the shoulder ( when the shaping has been done using the holding position ) . |
| 9 | Such timber buildings would have been built using the accumulated experience of the community and would not have seemed such an intricate task to those who regularly witnessed the activity . |
| 10 | A total of 18 structures have been built enabling the new road to cross a variety of obstacles including two railway lines , a major road and a canal . |
| 11 | The video has been made using a highly-experienced cast of comedy actors and a top television light entertainment director . |
| 12 | Nobody had been seen carrying the two large and heavy books out . |
| 13 | These have been recreated using an amazing new British technique which makes it possible to produce accurate facsimiles of ancient bodies . |
| 14 | Dickinson has examined the possibility of determining whether similar brooches have been produced using the same procedure or equipment on the basis of measurement ( 1982 ) . |
| 15 | Unique commemorative plaques have been produced featuring a classic grille badge from the RAC 's early years and these will be awarded to members as they reach their 50th year of membership . |
| 16 | The double staircase has been reconstructed providing a grand route to the new second-floor reception and sales area . |
| 17 | FORMS have been distributed promoting a new cervical smear programme for Group employees which will be introduced in 1993 . |
| 18 | It is my view that our generation has been much too preoccupied with the ‘ trimmings ' ; goodness knows how much time and energy has gone into the practising of accent and command of language , how many hours spent studying encyclopedias and volumes of ‘ Test Your Knowledge ’ , when the time should have been spent mastering the basic fundamentals . |
| 19 | The 21-year-old has been videoed putting a steel-capped boot into men who have been knocked to the ground . |
| 20 | Now and again a heron will fail to survive the rigours of winter , and occasionally dead birds have been found carrying a numbered metal ring on their leg . |
| 21 | Various schemes of reform have been proposed involving the private sector in an attempt to introduce market forces to some extent into health care . |
| 22 | Most people , if asked to smooth the data by eye , would probably produce a curve similar to those in figures 9.3 or 9.4 , each of which has been derived using a well-defined arithmetic procedure described later in the chapter . |
| 23 | Hair has been cut using the natural contours of the head . |
| 24 | Colt knew that the target was a thief , that he had been observed entering the Syrian Embassy when that Embassy was under regular Iraqi surveillance . |
| 25 | You should not anticipate reliable floppy disk reading if the disk is not of the correct type , or if it has not been formatted using the correct procedure for that particular disk drive . |
| 26 | The production of the CH 3 · radical by flash photolysis of CH 3 I , for instance , has been monitored using a tunable IR laser set at a fixed frequency of 608.301 cm -1 , coinciding with the strong Q-branch of the ν 2 band . |
| 27 | And now back to tonight 's top story and the news that two firemen have been killed fighting a serious fire at a poultry processing factory . |
| 28 | In 1056 he and the earls Leofric [ q.v. ] and Harold made peace with King Gruffydd of north Wales , and Ealdred took the diocese of Hereford , whose bishop had been killed fighting the Welsh . |
| 29 | The Steward 's group had presumably been discovered entering the semi-ruinous domestic quarters of kitchens , bakehouse , larders and so on , at that side . |
| 30 | However , an equally successful effect would have been achieved using a circular frame between two square ones . |