Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They receive a child who has been badly let down in the past , who has to learn , painfully , how to care and trust again . |
| 2 | They began to realise that many procedures had been wrongly carried out in the management of the case , in particular that the Social Work Department were not implementing the decisions of the Children 's Panel . |
| 3 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 4 | The 25-year-old Dublin soldier had been virtually written off in the welterweight division . |
| 5 | The most common quarry is the houbara bustard , which , after centuries of hunting with falcons , has been virtually wiped out in the Arabian Peninsula . |
| 6 | Individual trade unions also reflected this continuous decline throughout the 1920s and early 1930s ; the coal miners ' union declined from 936,653 members in 1921 to 885,789 in 1925 and to 554,015 in 1932 while , for the same dates , respectively , trade union membership in the railway unions fell from 560,875 to 528,764 and 399,184.46 There also appears to have been no let up in the determination to forge a more effective industrial alliance — even though the General Council stopped short of another general strike . |
| 7 | The provisions of clauses 14 , 17 and 18 relevant to the issues before me have been helpfully set out in the affidavit of Mr. McKeown in which I have interpolated three numbers to indicate the particular passages which were dealt with in argument . |
| 8 | BEHIND the excitement of general election campaigning , a significant surge in property sales has been quietly building up in the West Country . |
| 9 | It is fair to claim that those words have been amply borne out in the intervening period and are confirmed again in this order . |