Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But several readers had pointed out that if evil could not create , was only good perverted , then presumably the orcs had been by nature good and might in some way be saved ; Tolkien certainly balked at calling them ‘ irredeemable ’ , see Letters , pp. 195 , 355 . |
| 2 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 3 | I think the Germans had been after ‘ Salt Peter ’ , but they got the empty coal yard and one or two small buses instead . |
| 4 | They will also want to know how successful the plans have been in achieving what they set out to achieve . |
| 5 | Some of the prisoners had been to parties in the German Kommandantur . |
| 6 | The Lions have been on tour for a month . ’ |
| 7 | Policies with prefix letters PM or FM ( Motor Car ) , MC ( Motor Cycle ) or CM ( Commercial Vehicle — excluding policies numbered lower than 100,000 ) will qualify for a Special Discount of just under 6% where the policies have been in force continuously for at least three years when they are renewed during the year commencing 1st July 1981 . |
| 8 | He had been waiting there since hearing from Bartocci , less than an hour earlier , that the kidnappers had been in touch and that the car would be leaving as soon as it got dark . |
| 9 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 10 | Yet just at that moment — one occasionally suspects that the mythmakers have been at work on the story — the lookout sighted sails on the western horizon . |
| 11 | The teenagers had been on their way home from a party just after the outbreak of hostilities and , according to one military policeman , had tried to crash the road block , almost running down one of the MPs . |
| 12 | Unusually , one of the schools had been in receipt of two Minor awards in successive years . |
| 13 | The polytechnics have been under a similar financial strain . |
| 14 | The bogs have been in the main part destroyed by forestry development and commercial peat cutting for horticulture . |
| 15 | The kids had been in the car and there was a water pistol on the shelf under the dash . |
| 16 | Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal . |
| 17 | But otherwise I just reckon there will be something around — or if the locusts have been at the fridge , well , I can always go out . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Previously the losses have been through voluntary redundancies or retirements , losing some of our most experienced officers . |
| 19 | But as some of the books had been through more than one library , the actual figures that emerged were 260 books from 292 libraries . |
| 20 | How grateful the Jews have been to God and how sorely treated by God the Jews have been . |
| 21 | So there was evidence that the beggars had been on the bank that morning . |
| 22 | Although it was found that the defendants had been at fault , Atkinson J. considered that , irrespective of this , the defendants would have been liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 23 | The judge found the defendants to have been in breach of the injunction and committed each to prison for four months . |
| 24 | The headhunters have been on the warpath again : Tucson , Arizona-based Artisoft Inc reports that William Baker submitted his resignations as chief financial officer , ‘ to pursue other opportunities ’ . |
| 25 | The Garlands have been in this game for eighty years — accumulating , not spending . |
| 26 | It might have been very nearly normal if the movements had been like that . |
| 27 | Many of the refugees have been on the move for several years . |
| 28 | Indeed , the companies have been at pains to demonstrate the technology 's feasibility : the CeBit show saw a demonstration of isoEnet in action on NatSemi 's stand and it has published a White Paper on it . |
| 29 | About 90 per cent of development in the zones has been for industrial or warehouse use . |
| 30 | In making the change , the Church effectively admitted that on these points the Reformers had been in the right . |