Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 2 | The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which . |
| 3 | The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east . |
| 4 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 5 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 6 | So dear Dr. Godman I feel I have been treated badly in this case and would be grateful if you would pursue this matter further . |
| 7 | The potential dangers of the unthinking use of league tables , however , as currently presented have been pointed out by several authors . |
| 8 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 9 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 10 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 11 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 12 | Diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya had been broken off since that year . |
| 13 | While the proposal was known to have been received enthusiastically by some EC countries , including Portugal and Greece , others like France opposed a CSCM which would include the Middle East , preferring to limit it to the western Mediterranean . |
| 14 | Earlier forecasts , suggesting that the world 's population would stabilize at about 10,200 million by 2085 , had been revised upwards with some experts predicting that that total could be reached as early as 2060 . |
| 15 | She had assumed , when she was told that Mills ' murder had been checked thoroughly for any spying connections , that the enquiry had at least had the semblance of efficiency , if not diligence . |
| 16 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
| 17 | Ray Parlour , having been caught heavily by former Gunner Kevin Richardson , did not return for the second half . |
| 18 | She had risen from the couch and was awaiting his approach , her consternation evident as if she had been caught out in some misbehaviour . |
| 19 | Surely at least one would have been caught short at some point during the operation . |
| 20 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 21 | She explored the place where his manhood lay and he , in turn , used experienced fingers to set alight that part of her where carnal longings had been damped down until that moment . |
| 22 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 23 | Since then , various voluntary groups throughout the campus , the UK and abroad have come forward with names and addresses of active alumni , some of whom have been networking enthusiastically for many years outwith the official organisation of either the Graduates Association of the University . |
| 24 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | A government spokesman confirmed on May 22 that China had conducted an underground nuclear test ; evidence of a major nuclear explosion had been picked up by several monitoring stations the previous day . |
| 26 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 27 | They said that no English forward scouts had been reported anywhere in this vicinity ; nor had the Earl made any direct contact with them . |
| 28 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 29 | The regional differences in house prices have been considered earlier in this chapter ( and in Table 9.1 , column 6 ) . |
| 30 | Some of these clauses have been considered earlier in this chapter . |