Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The session had been intended to set a date for reconvening the 14th party congress , which had broken up in disarray on Jan. 23 [ see pp. 37172 ] . |
2 | Draftsmen often use the word " independent " , as in phrases like " an independent valuer " or " an independent accountant " : the latter is used in the precedents in Appendix A. Sometimes this wording seems to have been intended to draw a distinction between expert determination and arbitration , as in the clause in the lease which was disputed in North Eastern Cooperative Society Ltd v Newcastle Upon Tyne City Council [ 1987 ] 1 EGLR 142 , where the parties were supposed to agree on " an independent surveyor " , and if they could not agree , the RICS was to appoint an arbitrator . |
3 | ‘ He spends all day in his room and has n't been heard to say a word to anyone . |
4 | Since the demise of the punch-card system for entering commands this has normally been undertaken using a keyboard and a screen driven by a cathode ray tube ( CRT ) or liquid crystal display ( LCD ) , although voice entry of data and touch screens have also been used . |
5 | Because of these shortages , much research has been undertaken to produce a fat with cocoa butter properties . |
6 | Regardless of the cell populations involved , Beguinot et al and our own finding that liadin derived peptides stimulate adenylate cyclase activity in small intestinal mucosa homogenates from patients who have not been treated suggests a role for cAMP in the pathophysiological processes of coeliac disease . |
7 | The heater had been adjusted to give a temperature of 76°F , and the filter was bubbling away nicely . |
8 | The HERMS file structure has been arranged to store a minimum of data whilst yielding the maximum information . |
9 | According to the NRA , the net present value of the damage that would be caused by flooding , and hence the benefit accruing , has been calculated using a number of variables , and generally lies between £41 million and £69 million . |
10 | Since April 1988 the size of the budget for each school has been calculated using a formula ( based mainly on age-weighted pupil units ) rather than the use of historical costs . |
11 | A new dance company has been formed to give a boost to the performing arts outside London . |
12 | Therefore , if the wrong person has been assigned to approve a package and the user who should have done so does not agree to the approval , the following steps must be taken : |
13 | Like some naughty child who 's been caught playing a prank she just kept her head low , staring at the floor . |
14 | Within the Dakleton is a comprehensive radar/nav fit and the rear fuselage has been modified to take a battery of smoke canisters and flares , which can be ejected from a series of chutes in the under-fuselage . |
15 | This family was the second detected and our practice has since been modified to make a disclosure no sooner than 6 weeks . |
16 | These outline specifications have been included to provide a summary of the new awards . |
17 | It was confirmed on Oct. 1 that Carl Bildt had been nominated to form a minority four-party " bourgeois " coalition , as proposed by him on Sept. 24 , comprising his own conservative Moderate Party ( M ) , the Liberal Party ( Fp ) led by Bengt Westerberg , the Centre Party ( C ) led by Olof Johansson , and the Christian Democratic Community Party ( KdS ) led by Alf Svensson . |
18 | Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody , with a perinuclear pattern on immunofluorescent staining has been reported to have a sensitivity of 65% and specificity of 100% in primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
19 | Capsaicin sensitive afference neurones have previously been reported to play a prt in gastric mucosal protection . |
20 | RAP30 has been reported to contain a sequence homologous to region 1b and 2 of σ factors of bacteria , which has been shown to be a binding site for the core component of E.coli RNA polymerase and possibly for mammalian RNA polymerase II ( 19,40 ) . |
21 | Yet all these have been subdued to form a stream native to our own soil . |
22 | The US Fish and Wildlife Service had been expected to reach a decision soon on whether to call for a ban or not . |
23 | In response the United Kingdom Minister for Overseas Development , Lynda Chalker , cancelled a visit to Nigeria scheduled for October , when she had been expected to announce a £60,000,000 aid package . |
24 | In a problem on criminal law , make no statement as to the law of tort , unless of course the question whether a crime has been committed involves a question of tort . |
25 | The core program architecture has been designed to provide a commonality across all the products , no matter which application they are designed for . |
26 | The seemingly random and jagged-edged pattern of blue , black , silver , green and white had been designed to disguise a boat 's shape from the prying eyes of U-Boat captains , so it seemed somewhat fanciful to thus camouflage a pleasure boat in the Bahamas . |
27 | In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) . |
28 | Sufficient signatures had been collected to hold a referendum in the Crimea on independence from Ukraine . |
29 | The prison in Matagalpa had been built to hold a maximum of 600 , and in January 1989 there were 530 occupants . |
30 | Soon after Haig-Thomas had left us we passed a shrine to Sheikh Husain ; the white-washed dome with four turrets had been built to commemorate a place where the saint had lived alone for years , praying and fasting . |