Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority had been of wood and most of these were lost through fire . |
| 2 | The base had been in line for the axe under the Options for Change review of the Services but was saved because the cost of relocation exceeded the saving . |
| 3 | And the change had been with Pamela , not with him . |
| 4 | ( 1982 ) have shown that about three-quarters of the change has been to woodland , as shown in Figure 8.4 , and that this pattern is fairly geographically even , except for Dartmoor as shown in Table 8.4 . |
| 5 | Although he differentiated his position from that of Draper , suggesting that the struggle had been between science and dogmatic theology rather than between science and religion , A. D. White insisted that there had been a theological and a scientific view of every question , invariably at odds . |
| 6 | Almost all previous contact with the Board had been through courses of one or two days duration — mostly held on a trainee 's farm ( but also at local education colleges in England and Wales ) , with up to 70% of the time being spent on trainee participation and practice . |
| 7 | The case had been under way in Ohio for more than two years and was now ready for trial . |
| 8 | It appears that the case had been in progress before the Heliopolitan Divine Council for eighty years and the gods were understandably becoming impatient and short-tempered , yet they seemed unable to decide upon a judgement . |
| 9 | But if you think things are bad now , just wait till the case has been to court . |
| 10 | The university has been under curfew and restraint for months . |
| 11 | Well you could say that erm our background goes back erm twenty-five years , in fact , we 've had a considerable involvement with industry both local and national for as long as the University has been in existence , which is now nearly twenty-five years . |
| 12 | The cabin had been in darkness , and she had been alone . |
| 13 | But the reaction of the most senior members of the judiciary — the Law Lords , the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls — was felt by many of the general public , I believe , to conflict with the image which the judiciary have been at pains to promote . |
| 14 | The entry had been by invitation and restricted to forty-eight amateurs and forty-eight professionals . |
| 15 | Forces opposed to the President had been in control of much of the country for several months [ see pp. 37702-03 ; 37767-68 ; 37844-45 ] , with the central government 's authority largely confined to the area around the capital . |
| 16 | Here , Stoddard Templeton was well known ; all the staff in the department having been on sales training courses at Elderslie , which they recalled with morale boosting enthusiasm . |
| 17 | The programme had been under way for some time , studying liquid-liquid reactions with disappointing results . |
| 18 | Magistrates were told that the defendant had been to Mr. White 's bank and had offered to pay the money stolen from them . |
| 19 | Robert Smith , defending , said : ‘ This is a very serious state of affairs , not least because the defendant has been in custody for at least 12 months . |
| 20 | The Brigade has been in Normandy since the 6th June in constant contact with the enemy until we reached the Seine . |
| 21 | ‘ I was angry and upset to read that somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 22 | Crosby blew his top after learning of the Coppell link and said yesterday : ‘ I was angry and upset to read somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 23 | Asked how the princess had been during lunch , Lord Healey said : ‘ The princess was wonderful . |
| 24 | Within the German Social Democratic Party the issue had been in dispute for some time . |
| 25 | A report by Helmut Schlesinger made public on Sept. 30 indicated that the greater part of the DM44,000 million of " compulsory DM sales " by the Bundesbank in the week when the pound and the lira withdrew from the ERM had been in support of sterling ( this figure apparently excluding operations conducted on Sept. 22-23 when the franc was under particular pressure — see below ) . |
| 26 | I 've had support from as far away as Boston , Massachusetts ( nowhere else , actually ) , for the retention of old Sir Wynkyn at the head of this column , but now that I have met the new fellow , commissioned at vast expense ( as the Editor has been at pains to point out ) , I feel he 's quite me . |
| 27 | With equal determination , Annie was making it clear by chatting away happily to Ibn Fayoud and his schoolgirl friend that it would be rude to leave before the dancing had been under way for half an hour or so . |
| 28 | The type has been in Ireland for at least 4,000 years , according to archaeological evidence , and it is within the same ancestral group as the White Park , the Welsh cattle and the old Scottish breeds , and also the European remnant breeds such as the Hérens of the Alps and the Camargue of southern France , to which the Kerry bears a noticeable likeness . |
| 29 | ‘ The boy 's been at school ! ’ he laughed . |
| 30 | Based on the assumption that the child has been in contact with at least some of the usual and varied sources of instruction and indoctrination , an answer from the parent along the following lines might carry for the child a ring of truth sufficient for him to accept , and be reassured . |