Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was coloured a garish blue , an obvious re-spraying job after massive areas of the body-work had been filled in after various collisions . |
| 2 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 3 | Colic , eczema , asthma , persistent runny nose , glue ear , headaches , migraine and even behavioural problems , have all been traced back to certain foods or food additives . |
| 4 | The salmonella has been traced back to contaminated Scotch eggs . |
| 5 | Not only in P P G seven but as has been pointed out in other erm guidance notes such as four erm and three . |
| 6 | It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts . |
| 7 | It introduces , as has been pointed out by numerous speakers , the famous eighteen month rule . |
| 8 | The point of departure is the general valuation model that has been developed out of discounted cash flow ( DCF ) techniques . |
| 9 | My name had been bandied about in recent weeks , ever since the ban was reduced by two years . |
| 10 | Administrative assets " primarily used for the purposes of the former Ministry of State Security/National Security Office " would " accrue to the Trust Agency unless they have already been given over to new social or public purposes since the above mentioned date " . |
| 11 | As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production . |
| 12 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 13 | Along one wall of the warehouse , four loose-boxes had been partitioned off by old refrigerators pushed together , which made very satisfactory walls . |
| 14 | And although there is less new material to play on your deck , second-hand shops are bulging with whole collections that have been turfed out by over-zealous digital converts . |
| 15 | Scientists at Boston University , using remote sensing techniques , have found that the desert pavement of Kuwait , southern Iraq and Saudi Arabia has been broken up over large areas by the massed movement of vehicles during the war . |
| 16 | She said the oil had been broken down into small particles and was being absorbed by organisms at the bottom of the food chain . |
| 17 | The six themes are at unequal stages of development in that some have already been broken down into specific research projects whereas others are at a more exploratory stage . |
| 18 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 19 | Some of the functionality that lets it be sold for over $10,000 has been stripped out like technical image editing and the ability to scan in pages over 11 x 17 . |
| 20 | Channel 2 is essentially the same , but there 's no ‘ mid ’ control , no EQ preset button and the tone controls have been honed down to just bass and treble . |
| 21 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 22 | Coun Richmond asked councillors to vote for more talks with the disabled who he felt had been let down by late changes to the scheme . |
| 23 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 24 | 16 NOT all Americans have been won over by Super Mario . |
| 25 | As uncertainty about the fate of commercial galleries grows , the burden of showing new artists has been picked up by unexpected agents . |
| 26 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 27 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 28 | Indeed , many of the postures struck in the 19th century have been carried through to recent times ; the belief , for example , that the educated do not enter business is still widespread , if not endemic in the national consciousness . |
| 29 | As a result , a whole range of measures including stricter disciplinary codes , work reorganisation and redundancies have been carried through in large numbers of firms ( Hyman and Elger , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | Section 10 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and s.213 of the Insolvency Act 1986 together provide that if in the course of winding up it appears that any business of the company has been carried on with intent to defraud creditors of the company or other persons , or for any fraudulent purpose , the liquidator may apply to the court for a declaration that any persons who were knowingly parties to such fraudulent trading are liable to make such contributions to the company 's assets as the court thinks proper . |