Example sentences of "[noun sg] [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So yes the answer to the question is yes there is a budget there is a budget and we need to do things now one of the problems could be the budget is n't sufficient to cover all that needs doing so I think you 'll find that the building been built at a certain time there a comes a time you 've got plan a maintenance programme which we have things need to be done . |
| 2 | Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ? |
| 3 | The immediate counterattack is simple : Has the building been offered for sale on the open market ? |
| 4 | The usual test applies : Has the freehold building been offered for sale on the open market ? |
| 5 | In too few cases has the reduction been accompanied by an admission that the new base will be more sustainable in future . |
| 6 | Not until recent months has a small ‘ fraud squad ’ of limited expertise been formed within the RUC and it has still to be asked to investigate something with potential political repercussions . |
| 7 | This has in large measure been achieved under the SGSA 1982 ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 8 | Too late , we realised that we were breaking a taboo of British publishing : never before ( it was thought ) had a penis of any kind been printed on the cover of a mainstream magazine . |
| 9 | How far had popular or institutional racism been transformed during the ‘ Thatcher decade ’ , and by what ? |
| 10 | When , she wondered , for how long , had Hereward Marr been connected with St Sylvester 's ? |
| 11 | Why had ideology been tempered with pragmatism ? |
| 12 | Hello , well what 's your mum been doing to you this morning ? |
| 13 | Never before in my experience has such a large degree of surface noise been eliminated without any loss of recording information . |
| 14 | In fact , had the cinema been invented at the time . |
| 15 | Alternative explanations of the relationship between human beings and land have of course been raised within Western culture , most notably in the work of Karl Marx ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 16 | A number of teachers have of course been exposed to discovery methods , the principles of new maths and new science ; there is , however , a strong countervailing trend in which pupils know from their CPE texts what are the answers , the definitions of the scientific laws , and increasingly regard as a waste of time proving by rudimentary experiments what they already know . |
| 17 | Attempts had of course been made before 1513 to link taxation more directly to personal riches , but they had been unpopular and , in general , ineffective . |
| 18 | Douglas , disappointed , had of course been prepared for this also , and wasted little time in cursing . |
| 19 | Scotland had of course been embroiled in the long-standing hostility between England and France before ; but not until the 1540s and 1550s did these powers actually try to determine the government and internal affairs of the country . |
| 20 | The text has of course been approved by our Chairman and is enclosed for your information . |
| 21 | If you do notice that the last row was incorrect due to you moving the point incorrectly , by the time you 've unravelled the row and passed the carriage back , the point cams have of course been read in their current position , so there is no further action to take . |
| 22 | This girl had not of course been told of the scandal of the boss 's daughter , and she willingly went to the tall cabinet , found the card , read it to Alice who memorised it and ran out . |
| 23 | Many cultural formations have of course been restricted in this way . |
| 24 | The glamorous side of aviation , flying , has of course been brought to the attention of the public over the years ; but what of the ladies who drove staff cars , rode despatch motor cycles and undertook much arduous work often under enemy fire ? |
| 25 | Has that assessment been confirmed by what you 've found ? |
| 26 | If this makes it seem inevitable that Labour 's electoral support should slump , it has to be pointed out that , according to the opinion polls , Labour might well have won had an election been called in 1978 . |
| 27 | At the same time the rural interest had for the most part been neglected by the political powers-that-be . |
| 28 | Its contribution has in part been developed through its critical understanding of what a working-class adult education might be , drawing on the best elements of the liberal adult education tradition to produce an education that respects people 's culture and experience , but also subjects it to analysis and questioning . |
| 29 | This had in part been justified by cost conditions — a larger domestic consumer was cheaper per kWh to supply than a small one — though in the conditions of shortage which prevailed it was arguably foolish to maintain such a strong incentive to increased usage . |
| 30 | Few wanted to see the repeal of the Test Acts , which required that all office holders take the sacrament in accordance with the rites of the Church of England , since these measures had in part been designed against Catholics ( an important consideration when many Whigs still feared the possibility of a Stuart restoration ) . |