Example sentences of "been [verb] in a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal preference has been examined in a number of statistical ways . |
| 2 | His leadership has been criticized in a number of particulars : the timing of the movement 's creation ( too early or too late ) ; the adoption of anti-communism , which had short-term benefits but turned Gaullism into a right-wing preserve ; the systematic hostility to parliament and refusal to negotiate with the parties ; the tactical mistake of refusing apparentements in June 1951 . |
| 3 | An increased risk of developing gastric cancer in the smoking population has been highlighted in a number of large scale prospective cohort studies and there is increasing evidence accumulating from postlabelling studies that DNA adducts can be correlated with smoking history . |
| 4 | The courts have used regulatory rules in determining whether an obligation under the general law exists or has been broken in a number of ways . |
| 5 | However , by 1988 the city technology colleges had been designated in a number of major cities . |
| 6 | This strategy has been recommended in a number of structure plans for areas ranging from accessible Hertfordshire and Surrey to remote Cumbria and the Peak Park , although the Secretary of State has later modified some of these policies ( D. Clark 1981 ; G. Clark 1982a ) . |
| 7 | This is not to rule out the possibility of language convergence in terms of grammar , lexis and phonology , which has been reported in a number of cases . |
| 8 | The territorial reach of Anton Piller orders has been considered in a number of cases . |
| 9 | The defence has been considered in a number of recent cases in which it has been held that it is to be applied in a flexible and pragmatic way . |
| 10 | This has been considered in a number of recent winding-up cases , notably in Re Abbey Leisure Ltd [ 1990 ] BCC 60 , where the Court of Appeal said that two grounds for preferring a winding-up order to the transfer notice procedure and valuation by a company 's auditor were : ( 1 ) that there was nothing unreasonable in a petitioner with a minority holding refusing to accept a discount being applied to the valuation of his interest in the company , which an auditor was likely to decide on ; and ( 2 ) that there was machinery available in winding-up for the proper determination of claims , which was not available to an auditor . |
| 11 | School self-evaluation has been approached in a number of systematic ways during the 1980s — for example , Guidelines for Review and Internal Development in Schools . |
| 12 | This has been done in a number of papers and in this sections we outline the results of a study by Attfield and Duck ( 1983 ) ( henceforth AD ) . |
| 13 | ( S. ) 320 , and has been applied in a number of subsequent decisions , such as Fleming and Dodge ( 1984 ) 6 Cr.App.R . |
| 14 | Inequality of conversational opportunity has been uncovered in a number of areas . |
| 15 | Throughout history , otherwise unmarked minuets have been written in a number of time signatures , including 3/4 , 6/8 and 3/8 . |
| 16 | In the business sector , the users ' needs approach to accounting theory has been adopted in a number of authoritative statements . |
| 17 | Other incidents , notably including kidnappings in Lebanon and the Lockerbie disaster in which a Pan Am airliner was destroyed in December 1988 , had also been attributed in a number of cases to groups based in or operating under the protection of Syria . |
| 18 | In reality these terms have been interpreted in a number of different ways . |
| 19 | Signs based on colour-coding systems have been used in a number of libraries , for example at Hatfield Polytechnic Library , England ( one of the pioneers in this field ) and Chalmers University Library , Sweden . |
| 20 | The Parkinson and Garman and Klass estimators of volatility have been used in a number of the empirical studies considered below , e.g. Grammatikos and Saunders ( 1986 ) , Chamberlain ( 1989 ) , Board and Sutcliffe ( 1990 ) and Serletis ( 1992 ) . |
| 21 | Despite the criticism levelled at the public conscience test it has been used in a number of cases . |
| 22 | Such programs have been used in a number of curricular areas . |
| 23 | The automatic recognition of word meanings has been demonstrated in a number of experimental investigations . |
| 24 | Agency has been recognised in a number of international contexts . |
| 25 | The effect has been recognised in a number of studies , not least in my own . |
| 26 | Edward I chose essentially French themes to complete the decor-ations of the Painted Chamber at Westminster and a ‘ particularly strong French influence ’ has been detected in a number of English works dating from the period c.1290–1320 . |
| 27 | Musical stimuli have been employed in a number of dichotic listening experiments . |
| 28 | Proliferative abnormalities in normal looking colorectal mucosa are believed to represent an early phase of colorectal carcinogenesis and have been found in a number of conditions associated with a high risk for these malignancies . |
| 29 | O7 ppm although naturally high concentrations of mercury have been found in a number of locations , including Lake Windermere where mud dating back to the last century contains 0.7 ppm . ’ |
| 30 | The horse may suffer anxiety in relation to one specific part of its life : shoeing , trailering , saddling , mounting , and so oh , but if it has been hurt in a number of situations , it is likely to learn to be anxious in relation to anything to do with people . |