Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] [vb pp] [prep] another " in BNC.

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1 It may be justified where : ( i ) the original factors leading to registration no longer apply ; ( ii ) the child and his family have moved to another area ( and responsibility for the case has been transferred to another authority ) ; ( iii ) the child has reached the age of 18 years or married ; or ( iv ) the child has died ( para 6.45 ) .
2 That is best illustrated by the fact that a similar case has been referred by another GP in north Devon to the same unit in Birmingham .
3 If the dismissed employee has been replaced by another employee this usually means redundancy .
4 The three individuals were all ‘ phoned by a sultry female voice informing them that their bid had been matched by another .
5 One type of authoritarian rule had been followed by another , not allowing for that kind of unsettling liberalization which is so conducive to uprisings among minorities .
6 Assimilation creates something of a problem for phoneme theory ; when , for example , in ‘ good ’ becomes in the context ‘ … girl ’ ( ) or in the context ‘ … boy ’ ( ) , should we say that one phoneme has been substituted for another ?
7 Valuable insight into this question has been gained in another project entitled ‘ Styles and strategies of information handling in the sixth form ’ .
8 The playground has been built by another Hereford firm , who say it 's been quite a challenge .
9 And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another .
10 However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis .
11 An apparent suicide note found in the house on the day she died claimed the child had been fathered by another man .
12 Second , this war has been lost at another and even more terrible level : it is destroying our Serb feeling that our wars were just wars and that we behave honourably .
13 Nevertheless , in the course of the twentieth century , following the experience of various forms of dictatorship , some of which have developed from socialist revolutions , this distinction has been overlaid by another , between ‘ totalitarianism ’ and ‘ democracy ’ , or as it is sometimes expressed , between one-party and multi-party systems .
14 He did not take long in drinking his tea but by the time he had finished it , he saw that she was no longer at the counter , her place having been taken by another girl .
15 He did not complain when he found that his sleeping place had been claimed by another player ; nor when Garvey told him to wash the mud off the wagon wheelrims , and forbad him or Izzie ever to speak a word to Gabriel .
16 His attention had been taken by another notice outside the Town Hall .
17 She was happily thinking , Serves him right , a pity there was n't a cloudburst , when across the car park , in an area where the top managers of Vasey 's normally parked their cars , she noticed that room had been made for another car .
18 ‘ We did n't know if another bomb had been planted on another platform , ’ admitted Miss Godfrey , who uses the station three times a week .
19 If a DC has been activated through another package , then abort the DC .
20 Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch .
21 The papal letter which he was carrying to the king had been superseded by another , which spoke more mildly and suggested that Anselm himself had been a mischief-maker , and that a compromise agreement could be reached with good will on both sides .
22 She had never heard that Father had been apprenticed to another business in the town of Ballylee .
23 This was attributed to four main factors : the chairperson had been promoted to another school ; the librarian/coordinator had been promoted to a complex and demanding pastoral role ; the reorganisation of secondary schools had imposed strains to which the activities of a library committee were an unwelcome addition ; and finally , the fact that the project purchases were now completed , with the books already finding their way on to the library shelves , appeared to be seen as an indication that the committee 's work had been completed .
24 They argue that the post-war period is best characterised as one involving policy change and instability , and that , since the crack-up of the consensus in the 1960s , one doctrinaire and mandated government has been replaced by another with scant regard to appeals to the middle ground of public opinion .
25 However , the view that there was a predestinarian orthodoxy in the Elizabethan church has been challenged by another group of historians , which includes Peter White , Kevin Sharpe , and George Bernard .
26 The fast-acting tranquillizing drug already used in three instances of doping has been found in another racehorse .
27 But she had told him his daughter had been fathered by another man and she had tried to separate him from his main interest in life , the Club .
28 ( a ) references to signatures , inscription and dates refer to the present state of the work ; ( b ) the term ‘ bears a signature ’ and/or ‘ date ’ and/or ‘ inscription ’ means that in our opinion the artist 's name and/or ‘ date ’ and/or inscription have been added by another hand ; ( c ) the term ‘ signed ’ and/or ‘ dated ’ and/or ‘ inscribed ’ means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription are from the hand of the artist .
29 This means that the letter has been signed by another — the secretary or personal assistant — in the absence of their principal .
30 The attacker has been moved to another jail .
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