Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In place of the set splitting inherent in the the tree , we will require a dynamic memory structure such as the Chart for recording the multiple word tokens under consideration , and a process which is capable both of rating the goodness of fit of numerous possibly overlapping word hypotheses to the current input , and of determining when enough information has been gathered to select one of them .
2 In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant .
3 Firstly , I am reporting to you that there has been in the current year additional efficiency savings over and above those that previously anticipated er at the level of two hundred thousand pounds and so we are assuming in the budget erm that those can continue into ninety four , five and thereafter , and then we 'll see the resolutions have been amended to take that into account and the text of the erratum sheet explains how that 's been done .
4 His methods and his diligence were such that in less than six months he had completed the work which had been expected to take 2 to 3 years .
5 The yachts , themselves , have been designed to recoup some of the costs .
6 : Mb This scheme has been designed to overcome many of the objections that were raised to the earlier scheme , particularly in relation to the car parking that is now in excess of that which was originally required .
7 Other , ‘ professional ’ drugs have been designed to overcome some of these problems , but they have often been designed to have even more worrying characteristics .
8 But it is very different from a forward contract and has been designed to remove many of the disadvantages of forward contracts .
9 Unfortunately , apart from the papers quoted above , little has been done to distinguish immature from adult digestive processes .
10 In Spain , the policies of the enterprises controlled by the holding company INI have been said to follow those of their private sector counterparts , to the detriment of the national interest in areas such as pricing policy and import controls ( e.g. Tamames 1986 : 177–80 ) .
11 Within the space available , an attempt has been made to describe some of the techniques available for obtaining and utilizing chromosome preparations from different stages of embryogenesis .
12 Transcripts of tape recordings have revealed a fascinating array of meanings ; an attempt has been made to interpret these in the social and cultural context of the pupils ' experience .
13 We 've been made to feel ashamed of our actions , of the past .
14 Understanding of the disorder has progressed in all these directions , and several attempts have been made to combine some of these ideas in an integrative model ( e.g. Akiskal , 1979 ; Gilbert , 1984 ) .
15 She had grown up amongst beautiful clothes , been dressed from childhood in designer fashion , been made to stand still for fittings for her graduation dress and her first ball gown , and hated every moment of it .
16 And whatever you finally decide to do with it , bear in mind that great sacrifices have been made to bring this to you .
17 Recently , successful attempts have been made to unify three of the four categories of force and I shall describe these in this chapter .
18 Dogs are polymorphic in appearance because they have been made to look different by selective breeding controlled by their human masters .
19 Mrs Scrivener was sharply rebuked , not least by the Commission President , Jacques Delors , and she has been instructed to stand firm against the governments ' proposal today and tell ministers to think again .
20 Although he had been told to do this on some goddamned boring management course , the sergeant did it instinctively .
21 They have been helped to do this by the introduction of so-called ‘ call-off ’ contracts set up by Purchasing — which is part of AEA Estates — to enable them to place orders .
22 Clauses often say that the accountant appointed as an expert must be a partner in an " international " firm , which has been interpreted to mean one of what used to be the " big eight " firms .
23 ‘ A motor vehicle must have been used to take some of this property .
24 Lincolnshire County Council had already introduced a pre-ERA scheme of delegation which had been used to fund much of its secondary education .
25 Elsewhere in this book , empirical evidence for commodity futures has been used to supplement that for index futures .
26 Two other kinases have been shown to phosphorylate Ser-249 of c-Jun .
27 In the prairie dog and rabbit , somatostatin has been shown to inhibit sphincter of Oddi motility , but this effect may be species specific .
28 Irrigation has been shown to have potential on a relatively small scale , but can not be a solution for the mass of farmers .
29 The heavy freight loco has been rostered to haul most of the W.S.R 's heaviest trains , particularly during the summer peak services , running with smokebox facing Minehead .
30 The application that has recently been approved overcomes many of the local resident 's er objections , although I think it is fair to say that er some local residents are still concerned about Oxford Stadium 's operations , er on particular occasions and the way it affects them .
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