Example sentences of "[noun sg] [been] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ? |
| 2 | In too few cases has the reduction been accompanied by an admission that the new base will be more sustainable in future . |
| 3 | This has in large measure been achieved under the SGSA 1982 ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 4 | Too late , we realised that we were breaking a taboo of British publishing : never before ( it was thought ) had a penis of any kind been printed on the cover of a mainstream magazine . |
| 5 | In fact , had the cinema been invented at the time . |
| 6 | This girl had not of course been told of the scandal of the boss 's daughter , and she willingly went to the tall cabinet , found the card , read it to Alice who memorised it and ran out . |
| 7 | The glamorous side of aviation , flying , has of course been brought to the attention of the public over the years ; but what of the ladies who drove staff cars , rode despatch motor cycles and undertook much arduous work often under enemy fire ? |
| 8 | West Germany 's support in 1952 and 1953 for the Political Community had in part been predicated on the idea that it could resolve the Saar issue : the territory was due to become a separate ‘ European ’ area . |
| 9 | The Tarrytown competition might incidentally be unique ( and our prize vicariously so ) ; For when in the past has money been offered for an experiment to test an idea ? |
| 10 | The income arising overseas with respect to the transfer of the asset would not be chargeable until the individual becomes ordinarily resident ( and resident ) in the United Kingdom and until such time as the Revenue can say that had the income been received by the individual in the United Kingdom it would have been chargeable to income tax . |
| 11 | How has maths teaching been influenced by the introduction of calculators and computers ? |
| 12 | But has the heart of British industry been influenced by the hype and pressure to change ? |
| 13 | It is strange therefore that the signal box instruments revealed it as clear , the signal must have been at green , or had a heavy weight been lying across the signal wire ? |
| 14 | The Avila press believe , as do we , that had a proper search been conducted from the beginning , Jeremy would have been found alive . |
| 15 | There was until recently one situation in which the Monarch might be called upon to exercise a degree of discretion but even this has now in practice been removed as the result of party political developments that took place between 1957 and 1965 … |
| 16 | What has in effect been done with the Form Program is that , instead of the whole garment shape being entered as one program as is normally the case , the shape has been divided into sections that coincide with the stitch pattern lengths to be knitted with each worked out as a separate program . |
| 17 | Eurotunnel , which is already in default of its credit agreement with the banks , has in effect been given until the end of the year to settle its differences with the contractors to permit ‘ a viable financing strategy to be put in place ’ . |
| 18 | Great disorders had occurred among the children which would not have taken place had proper influence been exerted by the master . |
| 19 | Have the procedures for ensuring a responsive bureaucracy been nullified by the power of the bureaucracy itself , so that the functionaries , rather than elected politicians ( who are no longer easily distinguishable from bureaucrats themselves ) , rule ? |
| 20 | In some companies this role has to a degree been formalised through the creation of audit committees made up of non-executives , their function being to review the effectiveness of the company 's auditing procedures and to liaise with the auditors . |
| 21 | Nor had American diplomatic assistance been offered in a way that soothed British feelings . |
| 22 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott went back to his planning duties , although he did one more beach reconnaissance ahead of ships ' detachments of Royal Marines landing on Kupho island ( off Crete ) in a modest raid that destroyed a radar station , and might have brought back code books had not their metal safe been lost as a ship 's boat tilted in being hauled aboard a destroyer gathering speed . |
| 23 | The remains of hundreds of woolly mammoths from the Ice Agehave been found on a site which was to be turned into a rubbish dump . |
| 24 | No sooner hat the dish been taken from the oven than a tortoiseshell cat entered the room , and leapt , via Mark 's knee , on to the table . |
| 25 | There had been a recent incident involving my younger brother , Russell , who had been at a party and on his way home been accosted by a group of men that he knew , who were in a car . |
| 26 | Have the political and creative aspirations of the sector been abandoned in the climate of new realism ’ , or is this simply the beginning of a new phase ? |
| 27 | He had in that capacity been supplied with a copy of Scott 's report , which was regarded by the government , and particularly by the Foreign Office , as strictly confidential . |
| 28 | ‘ Has the device been taken to the cemetery ? ’ |
| 29 | Why has the key to the spaceship been put in the cave ? |
| 30 | In only two wells has special attention been given to the mud system . |