Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The effects of collection size have been little mentioned by writers on online catalogues , perhaps because many of the writers are from North America and are used to university libraries which are larger than many national collections . ) |
| 2 | The proposal , to help fund fisheries work , had been widely condemned by farmers and landowners . |
| 3 | This technique has been widely adopted by researchers in recent years . |
| 4 | Judge McKinnon had been widely criticized for comments made during his hearing of a case of inciting racial hatred . |
| 5 | Guerreiro had been widely criticized among environmentalists and Indian organizations for failing to take a sufficiently active role in defending native peoples ' interests . |
| 6 | This approach , pioneered by Weber ( 1964 , pp.88–115 ) , has been widely applied in studies of industrial conflict . |
| 7 | As before , this new document , The School Curriculum , emphasised preparation for adult life and the economic needs of the country , and repeated the list of aims claiming that they had been widely accepted during consultations . |
| 8 | Antarctic insects and mites have been widely collected from stations that include some of the world 's southernmost outcrops . |
| 9 | Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water . |
| 10 | COUNT AND ADD — This is the latest version of Lander 's popular maths primer which has been widely used in schools throughout the UK . |
| 11 | The strike demand has been totally ignored by the Soviet media , although posters and leaflets about it have been widely distributed through voters ' clubs and associations , and other informal groups . |
| 12 | Our new 24 page full colour schools booklet has been widely acclaimed by teachers and pupils as the best AIDS resource they have ever seen . |
| 13 | The title has been widely purchased by hobbyists , student , trainees , colleges , training departments and a very wide range of retail and industrial organisations over the past four years . |
| 14 | As had been widely predicted by criminologists and other commentators , the detention centres with the new harsher regimes were no more successful than detention centres with unmodified regimes in terms of the reconvic-tion rates of their ex-inmates ( Home Office , 1994b ) . |
| 15 | Examples have been widely attested of learners who exhibit correct performance on certain forms , and then lapse into deviance later on . |
| 16 | Plant down , with natural blood as an adhesive , is often used to form the design ; or ochre ( blood of the earth ) which has always been intimately associated with ceremonies of fertility , the invocation of rain , etc. , by tribal people in most countries , who , like the Aborigines , regard the earth as a living , breathing entity , its underground watercourses being seen in a similar light to the human arterial system . |
| 17 | The captain is now advised to store it in a bank , after it has been duly admired by friends and family , though I know one captain kept it under his bed , causing his mother a lot of sleepless nights ! |
| 18 | Eventually they joined forces with other graduates sharing the same skewed sense of humour , Michael Palin , Terry Jones , Eric Idle and an American-born cartoonist and graphic artist , Terry Gilliam ; and on Sunday 5 October 1969 ( incongruously enough , in a scheduling slot which had always been rigorously reserved for programmes of a religious cast ) the very first episode of Monty Python 's Flying Circus was broadcast . |
| 19 | Foreign press reports in March claimed that over the past year up to 400,000 people from shanty towns in the outskirts of Khartoum had been forcibly relocated to areas outside the city [ for December 1991 killings of shanty-town dwellers see p. 38666 ] . |
| 20 | Jane is an abductee , someone who believes they have been forcibly abducted by aliens , spirited up to spaceships and physically experimented on in various alarming ways ( rectal probing , artificial insemination , induced premature births ) . |
| 21 | One of the farmhouses that were part of the Cetinale Estate has been skilfully converted into residences whilst maintaining its many original architectural features . |
| 22 | For while it is true that ‘ different costs for different purposes ’ is an accepted part of textbooks , it is not clear that the idea has been successfully communicated to non-accountants . |
| 23 | Though The Lancet and the BMJ fought a rearguard action right up to the moment of final repeal , it was obvious that the sanitary principle had been successfully challenged by moralists . |
| 24 | Even jobs which have been successfully relocated in areas such as East Kilbride , increasing employment opportunities , could end up being moved away again should they be privatised . |
| 25 | There is no doubt that certain species have been successfully bred in zoos and released in the wild . |
| 26 | The convention meeting has been bitterly divided over proposals to ban all trade in ivory because of decline in elephant numbers from more than 1.2 million to 600,000 in the last decade . |
| 27 | It has been accidently transferred from animals to man and has been experimentally transmitted from man to calves and mice . |
| 28 | Previously , L Detachment had been loosely organized into troops on a raid-by-raid basis as required , certain men attaching themselves to particular officers . |
| 29 | Had n't his book , in which he retained a belief that two systems in one country would work when Hong Kong went back to China , been rather overtaken by events ? |
| 30 | apart from anything else er , er , er your complaint has been rather overtaken by events and , and both parties would no doubt wish to or may well wish to take further , er , but I think you 'll both agree that prospects of er let say getting any meaningful answer out of the commission by Christmas are remote . |