Example sentences of "been [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 2 | The sensitivity of platelets from diabetic subjects to the antiaggregatory effects of prostacyclin has been examined in a cross-sectional study using the electronic whole blood platelet aggregometer ( Jones et al , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 4 | By the turn of the century the landed class had been joined in a powerful ruling oligarchy by the representatives of ‘ new ’ economic forces , principally the bankers and heavy industrialists of the Basque country and the manufacturers of Catalonia . |
| 5 | A village that was mentioned in the Domesday Book has now been immortalised in a modern publication . |
| 6 | Bernard went into hiding and was only heard of again when news reached the Israeli Mossad that he had been assassinated in a car-bomb attack in Beirut . |
| 7 | Concern has been expressed by nursing organisations that some skillmix exercises have been undertaken in a simplistic manner , purely for cost-cutting purposes and with adverse effects on quality of care . |
| 8 | When a plant has been placed in a low-humidity environment likely to cause water stress the measurements taken so far have always decreased and so revealed the stress . |
| 9 | But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership . |
| 10 | Maintenance Manager — this role has been given considerable status in this example ; it could have been placed in a subordinate position to the Manufacturing Manager , where it is frequently to be found . |
| 11 | ‘ You see , Doctor Masters , ’ he continued , ‘ we have been placed in a difficult position , but that is no reflection on your qualities as a good doctor . |
| 12 | If the only or main reason for your being sacked was an ‘ economic , technical or organisational ’ one , entailing changes in the work-force — the vague Euro-jargon of the 1981 Regulations is a reminder that they were inspired by an EC Directive — your claim will not succeed if you have been treated in a reasonable manner . |
| 13 | he feels they 've been treated in a shabby way . |
| 14 | The safety of medicines has not always been treated in a balanced way by the lay press or by some consumer advocates . |
| 15 | Beware if a potential leader comes in with dissatisfaction at how he has been treated in a previous group . |
| 16 | The value of the trait ( which might be some such quantitative variable as size ) is measured in the offspring and their parents : if the values are correlated then ( provided that the offspring have not been reared in a similar environment to their parents ) the trait is heritable. ( b ) by artificial selection . |
| 17 | The pain in his ribs , three of which had been crushed in a recent collision , was almost unbearable . |
| 18 | The plight of young homeless people has been highlighted in a new report . |
| 19 | The issue of local economies being spun into what becomes a self-perpetuating decline has been highlighted in a recent report from the Centre for Environmental Studies ( Outer Estates in Britain , CES Paper , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | Oxygen is recommended for use in children admitted to hospital with severe pneumonia but the recently suggested clinical criteria for treatment with oxygen have not been validated in a clinical setting . |
| 21 | For such cream cheeses moulds are not strictly necessary , although the cheese looks more presentable if it has been pressed in a muslin-lined basket , a heart-shaped mould , a cake tin pierced with holes , even an expendable carton or a flower pot — always provided that the essential lining is not forgotten . |
| 22 | The analogous hypokalaemia that may occur during treatment with β 2 adrenoceptor agonists has been explained in a similar manner . |
| 23 | They have been arranged in a Western home by the Japanese wife of Balthus , the great French painter . |
| 24 | Trestle tables had been arranged in a square and covered with white lawn sheets . |
| 25 | Hobson and McCarley 's thesis has also been developed in a recent essay by Martin Seligman and Amy Yellen , whose title — " What is a dream ? " — has been borrowed for this chapter . |
| 26 | Further details of the method have been given in a recent paper . |
| 27 | Three Cabinet appointees were reported on April 1 to have rejected posts which they had been given in a transitional government appointed on March 30 . |
| 28 | " The Times " reported this evidence — which , having been given in a foreign court , was not protected by absolute privilege . |
| 29 | The premises had recently been painted in a garish olive green and over the shopfront large gilt lettering announced it as ‘ Bradley 's Dining Rooms ’ . |
| 30 | This has been painted in a strong colour to make it look more aggressive . |