Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] several " in BNC.
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1 | The potential dangers of the unthinking use of league tables , however , as currently presented have been pointed out by several authors . |
2 | But that is not to take anything away from Rogallo whose researches with NACA at the Langley Research Center into Parawings were well known , and had been picked up by several inventive minds in the kite world . |
3 | A government spokesman confirmed on May 22 that China had conducted an underground nuclear test ; evidence of a major nuclear explosion had been picked up by several monitoring stations the previous day . |
4 | Evaluation has been carried out in several different ways , in an attempt to study the value of the innovatory programme , and long-term measurement of the effects of the educational programme has been started . |
5 | She tried telling herself that he was just another idle aristocratic adventurer ; she had been looked over by several of the type and others of lesser breeding during her ten years in the public eye at the Fish . |
6 | A reputation had been built up over several years for the use of computers in the fields of manpower planning , personnel statistics and other industrial relations applications . |
7 | The company 's database of reactions contains information on over 500,000 compounds , and the expertise to operate many of these on a commercial scale had been built up from several decades of process development by Kodak , Eastman and Sterling . |
8 | The truth is that Libya has been stiched up on several occasions since Libyan oil was nationalised in 1969 and Gaddafi refused to behave like the American client his predecessors used to be . |
9 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
10 | The recessionary scenario has been played out in several U.S. institutions in the past two years . |
11 | His Disco Roadshow business , called Darlington Number One , has been hired out for several parties and functions in the Darlington area . |