Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eldest son , Bradford Wiley II , has been elected as his successor . |
| 2 | Corbett Farraday 's face fell , like a toddler whose jelly-baby has been snatched from its grasp . |
| 3 | An attractive programme of visits to both transport and cultural centres has been arranged for your interest . |
| 4 | When Margaret returns once more to Helstone , educated in reality by the industrial north , she is still grieved to find that it has disappeared and that a new one , tidy and respectable , has been built in its place . |
| 5 | It is to my knowledge the first time that an ‘ in-depth ’ feature has been written about their service with the RAF and brought back many poignant memories for me for I was , to quote your September issue , ‘ one of the batch of National Service gunners posted to RAF Coningsby ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ A lot has been written about our loss of Hirst and Bright , but John Sheridan and Chris Waddle can be very important players for us , and there are other good players here capable of a goal . ’ |
| 7 | Sufficient has been written in your columns about the latter match so I will not repeat the facts . |
| 8 | FOR the past five years , Thailand has been intoxicated by its success . |
| 9 | They said hello cheerily as we passed , and for no particular reason other than mindless banter I concluded our exchange with some hopeless attempt at humour , which happily has been blacked from my memory . |
| 10 | Tragedy has been instructed by his record company , A&M , to take his song ‘ Bullet ’ from the group 's forthcoming album ‘ Black Range ’ , fearing that its inclusion would prompt an outcry among prominent US censorship campaigners . |
| 11 | It is he who has been instructed by our intelligence people in London how to conduct the operation with three friends . ’ |
| 12 | Nineteenth-century amateurism has been stood on its head . |
| 13 | More recently this argument has been stood on its head with the suggestion that it was the rise of factory production which caused the technological developments which have given us today 's machinery . |
| 14 | Marani has been assisted in his efforts by a highly distinguished panel of scholars including Giulio Carlo Argan , Antonio Paolucci , John Pope-Henessy , Craig Hugh Smyth and Giovanni Testori . |
| 15 | That 's why infidelity has been struck off my agenda . |
| 16 | Now a new method has been developed in which badgers can be trapped , and tested on site , the results being available immediately . |
| 17 | City 's defence , which has conceeded 40 goals this season , has been strengthened since his arrival a month ago from St James ' Park . |
| 18 | The atmosphere moves from hard bop to cajun crunch and , for once , Billy boy has come up with a record that justifies all the praise that has been heaped on his shoulders . |
| 19 | And that has been determined by our marketing executive who has signed up the estate agent . |
| 20 | A small skylight has been cut into its dome , while a hole in the floor connects to a hollow chamber . |
| 21 | For example , if you worked with a seed head , you could show a sample of the plant from a side view and another viewed from straight on , a stem and some leaves with a tiny piece of root attached to create a very attractive design , but only do this if the plant has been grown in your garden or in that of a friend . |
| 22 | Very little research has been done into its cause among adolescents and adults . |
| 23 | Well the only thing is that I hope that the next generation that is coming along now will appreciate what has been done for their generation because it took a long time for us to get what we wanted for our children and now with our grandchildren are coming along I hope the town will improve with their growth . |
| 24 | From this community they have spread out and have now become a part of LE for adolescents and children of all races , though perhaps ( no research has been done to my knowledge ) only in areas where there is significant contact between the black and white communities . |
| 25 | Will my hon. Friend therefore give me an undertaking that he will visit Dartford early in the new year , or on Christmas day if need be , to see for himself the damage that has been done to our river and how much has been lost ? |
| 26 | Does the hon. Gentleman have the grace to accept that that is clear evidence of the damage that has been done to our economy by a Government who have no industrial policy ? |
| 27 | What research has been done on their effects , especially in the United States , suggests that their importance is primarily as a reinforcing rather than a realigning agent . |
| 28 | Perhaps there are not two killers , and this has been done by our man to confuse us . |
| 29 | Senior managers , on the other hand , mindful of the resource implications of the assessment responsibility which has been placed on their departments , may be looking for systems which will contain within manageable resource limits the potentially very high assessment workload for their staff . |
| 30 | ‘ By reason of the words published on 17 September 1989 and the words and graph published on 24 September 1989 the plaintiff council has been injured in its credit and reputation and has been brought into public scandal , odium and contempt , and has suffered loss and damage . |