Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The point of departure is the general valuation model that has been developed out of discounted cash flow ( DCF ) techniques . |
| 5 | This has gradually been whittled down to nine attainment targets per child , to take 12 to 15 hours , and the tests are to be paper and pencil only . |
| 6 | As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The six themes are at unequal stages of development in that some have already been broken down into specific research projects whereas others are at a more exploratory stage . |
| 11 | Diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya had been broken off since that year . |
| 12 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 13 | Some of the functionality that lets it be sold for over $10,000 has been stripped out like technical image editing and the ability to scan in pages over 11 x 17 . |
| 14 | She had risen from the couch and was awaiting his approach , her consternation evident as if she had been caught out in some misbehaviour . |
| 15 | ‘ I saw that sort you 've been knocking about with last night . |
| 16 | Channel 2 is essentially the same , but there 's no ‘ mid ’ control , no EQ preset button and the tone controls have been honed down to just bass and treble . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 20 | The technology has already been picked up in one form or another by many sections of the Unix vendor community . |
| 21 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 22 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 23 | And I saw that the shed window had been boarded over with some plywood , and the board had a number beneath which was the signature ‘ Popova ’ . |
| 24 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 25 | As we have already discussed , the ancestry of the rose is extremely wide and complicated , and although extraordinary genealogical detective work has been carried out into many family trees , one wonders how it is possible to be sure of the right direction when travelling through the mists and fogs of time , especially during the period before copyright was extended to plants , when secrecy was a safeguard against competition . |
| 26 | Special investigations have also been carried out into British aid for India and the payment of pensions in Gibraltar . |
| 27 | Research reviews have also been carried out of existing knowledge about inequalities between men and women and between the ethnic groups in the UK in respect of both health and health care . |
| 28 | The European Convention is different in kind , and the British signatories of it , worthy predecessors to the signatories of the Treaty of Brussels in 1972 , put an end to a period of more than four centuries during which no causes have been carried out of this realm . |
| 29 | This is why we appear to be witnessing a new round of military coup attempts in those happy places where western prescriptions have been carried out with such fidelity : for example , Fujimoro in Peru last week , and the events in Venezuela in February . |
| 30 | and a large reform had been carried out with little trouble . |