Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Quite frankly , Elinor- and in confidence — STG has been handling too many criminal cases for my liking . |
| 2 | The new audience was a mass audience but no previous audience in history had ever been given so much careful attention . |
| 3 | The banks have been given only two more days to agree to support the receiver 's rescue plan . |
| 4 | But they added that in spite of their own reservations about the use of pre-registration house officers , ‘ the Scottish Office told us that their approach had been to enable as many rural hospitals to provide accident and emergency departments as it was feasible , practicable and safe to do so . ’ |
| 5 | Erm and that was just an excu h him being expelled for driving someone into town was simply an excuse because he 'd been caught so many other times . |
| 6 | Suddenly Alexei remembered Tarvaras as he had first seen it — a revolving holographic projection suspended in the viewing well of the briefing amphitheatre of an Imperial survey vessel , the Simonova — off which he and five other humans had been marooned over twelve standard years earlier . |
| 7 | That said , the Scottish backs have also been looking extremely sharp all year , and it would have been a criminal offence had they been left starved of passes . |
| 8 | But de it 's been done deliberately that other contracts extend to end of June because , we knew that by round about mid May we would know what our financial situation was , in that what I understand are termed out-turn figures for the , our pre the previous financial year , will have been erm audited as a result of the end of the financial year . |
| 9 | I had been devoted to him , and he to me , and he had brought me a happiness I thought never to find again , But , I argued , he had been granted nearly forty more years of life , and had our son as memorial . |
| 10 | Great simplifications have been made in the law as to estates and interests in land , with the result that the law of property has been made very much more uniform . |
| 11 | What he did n't know was that the captives had already been moved over two thousand miles to the east . |
| 12 | ‘ We have been promised around 80 000 tonnes , we will need around 200 000 tonnes over the next 12 months . ’ |
| 13 | A hole had been dug for the coffin , next to the place where Eileen had been buried only two short years ago , and boards propped the soil up at the sides . |
| 14 | A concrete plinth , erected by the town council in 1935 , marked the spot where the earthly remains of the Reverend Matthew Kemp had been interred exactly three hundred years before . |
| 15 | On the eve of her seventh birthday , Nanny told Artemis that she had been invited downstairs that very afternoon to take tea with her father . |
| 16 | Nisodemus , though , had definitely been getting too much fresh air . |
| 17 | ‘ What fools we 've been to waste so much precious time . |
| 18 | Luckily , our ship was not badly damaged , but we had been driven over two thousand kilometres to the east . |
| 19 | There were also some presentational reductions in prices in some isolated , small-scale undertakings , where domestic consumers using electricity for very little more than lighting had been charged very high flat rates per kWh . |
| 20 | Taking these factors into account , there have recently been put forward several imaginative proposals aimed at encouraging farmers and landowners to create a more aesthetically pleasing landscape . |
| 21 | so they both about the same thing , he 's been sitting there worried all day , he 's |
| 22 | You 've been watching too many sick films about psychopaths . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You 've been watching too many late-night movies . |
| 24 | The defendant had been convicted under two different statutes of two offences which both arose out of essentially the same facts . |
| 25 | It is because these principles have been lost that much modern architecture is criticized : there is no link with or respect for Nature . |
| 26 | The hammered coin finds do not indicate the same form of activity that would have occurred at the time the weights would have been lost so two different forms of activity must have taken place . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly , the result has been to recruit predominantly middle-class unemployed people into mainstream programmes . |
| 28 | It has been suggested further that corporate ambitions extend beyond influencing the detail of regulation , with Reagan for instance claiming that ‘ … corporations are not only much concerned to protect their own immediate legislative interests , but are reaching out in an attempt to create a business-oriented political and social framework within which all public decision-making would be constrained . |
| 29 | It could n't be simply The History of Wimbledon ( there was a book with that title — it did n't matter that it had been published nearly two hundred years ago ) . |
| 30 | I had n't been feeling too well all day , but after opening-time when Toby 'd gone out to get the wine I started to feel better and began to dress . |