Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [verb] [prep] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Social Fund has been successfully introduced without all the problems nervously predicted by some of the experts . |
| 2 | I have been indecently assaulted by many a wise old family physician in my time : the passion for mammary examination — which has saved almost no lives at all over the past few years , it now appears-has been fomented and encouraged by male doctors . |
| 3 | Investors appear to have been effectively abandoned by both the fund managers , with whom they entrusted their investments , and also by the trustees whose main role is to safeguard these investments . |
| 4 | Investors appear to have been effectively abandoned by both the fund managers , with whom they entrusted their investments , and also by the trustees whose main role is to safeguard these investments . |
| 5 | On this occasion , the Canadian bags in question had been inadvertently included in such a consignment sent to Wandsworth . |
| 6 | Joe had once taken Rose Macaulay to a Billy Graham revivalist , fundamentalist mass meeting and been utterly revolted by all the rabid emotionalism and the militant Christianity , and he reminded me what Graham had said about Kinsey : ‘ It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ RCA have been really understanding in all the things we do . |
| 8 | The commission had been correctly paid on all the relevant purchases except that of Framwells — the chain of tobacconist shops — which was easily the biggest deal Mike had handled . |
| 9 | In retrospect many Conservatives felt that the ill-fated 1971 Industrial Relations Act had been too ambitious and that the ground had not been adequately prepared for such a sweeping measure . |