Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 2 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 3 | For example , on a second camera pass a projector was run along with the Discovery model to project action within the craft , seen at the windows , the windows having been blacked out the first time . |
| 4 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 5 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 6 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 7 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 8 | I took , I took the cheque around on Monday , I had the , the last appointment on Friday and erm since I 've had the abscess , the tooth that 's got a crown on top , I think it 's been pushed up a little bit and my top teeth , the first two keeps catching was this |
| 9 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 10 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 11 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 12 | The problem with industry-funded research has always been sorting out the intellectual property rights . |
| 13 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 14 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 15 | How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’ |
| 16 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 17 | Sharma v Knight [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 757 is authority for the proposition that jurisdiction conferred on county courts by statute is a general one and it is not restricted to the district in which proceedings should have been brought in accordance with Ord 4 , r 8 and that , if proceedings have been brought in the wrong county court , then the court nevertheless has jurisdiction to deal with the matter . |
| 18 | The pathogenesis of the disease has always been controversial , but considerable circumstantial evidence exists to support the suggestion that it is due to implantation of endometrium that has been refluxed down the fallopian tube at menstruation . |
| 19 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 20 | Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 22 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 23 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 24 | then he 's been put on a short week ? |
| 25 | Mr Goldring told the jury on the second day of the trial , which is expected to last for three months , that Bradley had been put on an intravenous drip but in the early hours of the next morning he shouted out , complaining of pain around the drip site . |
| 26 | ‘ Everything in this century has been put on the marital couple . |
| 27 | Though no official cost has been put on the deep-water well which led to the West of Shetland find , industry sources suggest the total outlay may have been less than £10 million . |
| 28 | ‘ We decided to suspend treatment for a while but have been put on the waiting list at the Ulster . |
| 29 | But if issues like these have been put on the public agenda by feminists , the substantive gains they achieved were limited . |
| 30 | Officials at the bank now admit that they failed to consider the affected population , and that more pressure could have been put on the Indian government to produce environmental plans . |