Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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1 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
2 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
3 | All this implies , as has been pointed out in the collected evidence presented to the 1987 Select Committee inquiry into the implementation of the 1981 Education Act ( cf vol 2 of the evidence ) , and to many others since then involved in attempts at educational reform : |
4 | It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them . |
5 | In retrospect , she said , the Budget could have been a great deal worse for disabled people considering what issues had been bandied about in the media recently . |
6 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
7 | But these problems have apparently been ironed out in the current batch of models . |
8 | The plaintiffs , that is the Lebanon , Croatia and Hungary , will be anxious to see those parts of Sotheby 's evidence which had been blacked out in the documents made available to them , and then only shown to the court . |
9 | ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again . |
10 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
11 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
12 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
13 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
14 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
15 | There were little spots of cement all along the top , where the railings had been torn out in the war . |
16 | Uniplex founder , Peter Osbourn , and finance director Dave Jennings have been squeezed out in the re-shuffle , and Patrick Regester , previously head of Uniplex 's international operations division has been appointed managing director , reporting to Amos . |
17 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
18 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
19 | the Business has been carried on in the ordinary and usual course and in the same manner ( including nature and scope ) as in the past and no unusual or abnormal contract differing from the ordinary contracts necessitated by the nature of its business has been entered into ; and |
20 | The West German Finance Minister , Mr Theo Waigel , ruled out a common German currency until economic reforms had been carried out in the East . |
21 | This evaluation will consider whether the school is now more effectively educating its students , and whether the change has been carried out in the most efficient way . |
22 | Recent surveys have been carried out in the United States by Hardesty ( 1978 ) and in the UK by Malley and Moys ( 1982 ) . |
23 | Further field investigations have been carried out in the Orissa region of India . |
24 | In a somewhat terse paper — it being considered that the more substantial analysis of principles had been carried out in the HMI document A View of the Curriculum — it was maintained that throughout the period of compulsory schooling , from 5–16 , all pupils should undertake study in English , mathematics , science , religious education , and physical education . |
25 | However , relatively little detailed exploration , especially drilling , has been carried out in the Lake District or Snowdonia . |
26 | Little mineral exploration has been carried out in the area which is poorly exposed except in coastal sections . |
27 | Most studies on the management control process have been carried out in the private sector with profit-orientated organizations . |
28 | Language tests had been carried out in the breach rather than the observance . |
29 | Much of the detailed analysis of the role of pressure groups in the policy-making process has been carried out in the United States . |
30 | How is it possible that what will prove to be an act of technological genocide has been carried out in the name of international law ? |