Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality . |
| 2 | The ANC demanded " total and verifiable " evidence that hit squad activities had been stopped after a prominent black lawyer was killed on Feb. 15 by a booby-trapped tape-recorder posted to his Soweto home . |
| 3 | THE disciplinary hearing of a senior council official accused of gross misconduct has been delayed until a legal dispute is settled , writes John Smith . |
| 4 | How the latter will be achieved remains to be seen , but it has been mooted that a surcharge should be levied on tropical timber , to be paid by the market , which could be used to undertake research into ways of achieving and ensuring tropical forest survival . |
| 5 | The majority of their lordships rejected this argument and held that it had been intended that a customer who accepted the offer by buying four gallons would thereby become entitled in law to have a World Cup coin . |
| 6 | It has long been recognized that a variety of structural divisions have generated more or less distinct cultures and sub-cultures , whether based on class divisions , age , gender or religion . |
| 7 | By the end of February all basic services had broken down or had been withdrawn and a mass evacuation of non-Bougainvilleans ( both foreigners and Papua New Guineans from other provinces ) was under way . |
| 8 | It had been arranged that a trustworthy man would come then to collect him and take him to a safe house . |
| 9 | It had been calculated that a uniformity of two-thousandths of an inch was an unheard-of standard of accuracy — except at Cadillac . |
| 10 | The old political domination of governing bodies has largely been broken and a typical governors ' meeting is a business session not a social occasion . |
| 11 | Three quarters said they had n't been consulted before a caution was given , and sixty two percent of our sample thought offenders should only be entitled to one caution no matter whether the crime was committed by an adult or juvenile . |
| 12 | Commoners have been consulted and a public report will be published , before the controversial Bill is put forward . |
| 13 | When the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , a series of inner area studies , commissioned by the government , had been completed and a White Paper , Policy for the Inner Cities , had been issued two years previously . |
| 14 | The first phase of the Trust 's Environmental Audit , announced in the summer 1990 issue of the magazine , has now been completed and a programme has been approved which should result in the principles of environmental protection being more firmly entrenched in the Trust 's activities . |
| 15 | At the present time , the development stage of the " persons " system has been completed and a number of reports and listings are produced for each location ; these include : strength return ( report ) nominal roll ( listing ) retirement lists ( listing ) etc The number of regular reports has deliberately been kept to a minimum to prevent managers from being besieged with information . |
| 16 | On the timing of negotiations on the prospective EC membership of those European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) states which had submitted applications , the meeting stated that official negotiations should not start until ratification of the Maastricht Treaty had been completed and a decision on the Delors II package had been taken . |
| 17 | Furthermore , it is necessary for a merger to have been completed and a dominant position created before Article 86 can be invoked . |
| 18 | But it has obviously been forgotten that a near-similar system was in place almost exactly a century ago — the submarine cable system , a communicative technique in which the British were supreme . |
| 19 | Children 's entertainment has n't been forgotten and a child 's fair , including mechanical rides , swings and a roundabout will also be operating on the site . |
| 20 | As exhausted members gathered their breath after Brush 's super show the old maxim that an army marches on its stomach had not been forgotten and a superb hot supper was served , washed down with a lively cocktail of pints , shorts and anecdotes of events of old . |
| 21 | His mattress had been slashed and a machine used to feed him intravenously was broken . |
| 22 | It was only once the basic political problems of the transition had been resolved that a coherent strategy could emerge for confronting the immediate economic crisis , and for dealing with serious underlying questions such as the restructuring of basic sectors of industry and the modernization of state finances and administration . |
| 23 | It has been supposed that a vocal response must necessarily emanate from the left hemisphere and that a stimulus presented in the left half field of vision must therefore be transferred from the right to the left hemisphere . |
| 24 | We would advise that the policy has therefore been cancelled and a full refund of premiums for 1991 has been made to your mortgage account . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It has not been cancelled and a firm decision will be taken nearer the time , ’ she said . |
| 26 | He had been discharged but a year later there had been little change in his weight . |
| 27 | On 16 October 1991 , after a hearing in chambers to consider wasted costs after the jury in a criminal trial had been discharged and a retrial ordered , Judge MacRae made an order against the appellant , H. , a barrister who had acted as defence counsel at the trial , disallowing ‘ such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the initial trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial … ’ under the provisions of section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , as inserted by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 28 | Police said other stations had not been evacuated because a warning call from the terrorists had been too vague . |
| 29 | An announcement the same day on the national radio said that Traoré 's government had been dissolved and a 17-member National Reconciliation Council ( CNR ) formed under the chairmanship of Lt.-Col. Amadou Toumani Toure , commander of the parachute regiment . |
| 30 | Dust extraction plant had been installed and a vacuum cleaning system became operational . |