Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | The corollary is seen where alien plants , contrary to expectation , appear to oust native plants in species-rich environments , where every ‘ niche ’ would appear to have been filled by species evolving more or less in situ to fit those environmental factors . |
2 | All the broken down buildings have gone , existing businesses have been hidden from 125mph prying eyes and replaced with pleasant trees and shrubs . |
3 | Ordinary people have been coerced by minorities to perform the necessary tasks . |
4 | No prisoner touches mail before it 's been examined by staff . |
5 | The bream appear to be ravenous as they recover from spawning activities and have been joined by tench , carp and roach to give several outstanding catches . |
6 | The budget in the table assumes the cost of sow huts , water and fencing , tractor and trailer have all been amortised at 13% over five years . |
7 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |
8 | Today at the fringe meeting where seventy odd people attended , I 've been inundated by people who 've come forward and said we wan na raise it , we wan na put instructions on the machines that dispense these . |
9 | Langbaurgh 's budget has been limited to £16.5m which will mean a reduction in poll tax bills of £18 a head . |
10 | The price of places has been limited to £10 . |
11 | The excess has been altered from 2% of the building value of 1% where accidental damage cover is included to a fixed sum of £1,000 each and every claim . |
12 | They have been treated as people who did not know what they were doing , have made some terrible mistake and are wasting their lives . |
13 | Yesterday relatives of Charles Prattley told a coroner they were disgusted by the way he had been treated by staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
14 | Even if the saithe has been reared on salmon pellets , I am sure the young ‘ rain goose ’ wo n't mind . |
15 | A rate for an experienced expert for , say , 1990 might have been typified by £60 and for 1993 by £90 . |
16 | From this it is clear that the idea of breaking up L Detachment had been floated at headquarters , using the excuse of a shortage of manpower . |
17 | Having been floated at 585p , Waste Management succumbed to profit-taking , the shares easing 11 to 644p . |
18 | The essence of limited partnership as a form of business enterprise has been explained on p. 29 in the section on choosing the form of business enterprise . |
19 | Schnabel had paid $12.1 million ( £6.6 million ) for it in 1989 , but expectations for this sale had been downsized to $6 million ( £3.29 million ) . |
20 | Thus the historical approach to the development and distribution of savanna vegetation which had been developed by M.M. |
21 | It 's unfair that this has been removed when tax breaks have been given to people who invest short-term in shares , property or new businesses through Personal Equity Plans and Business Expansion Schemes . |
22 | Some £270,000 has been given by people throughout South Durham to build the specialist unit at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
23 | More than quarter of a million pounds has been given by people throughout South Durham to build the specialist unit at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
24 | Visualisation of the gel , which had been overloaded with protein , showed only minimal cross contamination of the subfractions , with the exception of Β gliadin , which may have been contaminated with 5% of α and γ gliadins . |
25 | THE SALVATION Army was warned that it might be the victim of an elaborate fraud weeks before the charity revealed in February that it had been defrauded of £6.2 million . |
26 | A spokesman at the store , which had knocked £70 off £220 cameras and up to £8 off computer games , said : ‘ We have been overloaded with people . |
27 | A police spokesman confirmed a number of calls had been received from people worried about what was happening on Thursday afternoon . |
28 | Motorola Inc hopes to capture a broad market for the PowerPC processor by pricing the first versions well below Intel Corp 's fastest microprocessors , US PC Week reports : preliminary pricing for the PowerPC , due in volume in the third quarter , has been listed at $280 for the 50MHz 601 and $374 for the 66MHz version of the chip in quantities of 20,000 or more , according to sources familiar with Motorola 's plans — significantly below the Pentium and the 66MHz 80486DX2 , although the Pentium will outperform the PowerPC chips ; systems that use the PowerPC are expected to be priced at from $3,000 to $4,000 . |
29 | Relatively few cloned genes have been assigned to 10p11.2-q11.2 , but these include several zinc finger ( ZNF ) protein genes ( 3-5 ) . |
30 | ZNF25 had previously been assigned to 10p11.2-q11.2 ( 5 ) , but its physical linkage to cluster A genes refines its map location to 10p11.2 . |