Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [vb pp] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the field immediately south of Port Charlotte there is a four-part chambered cairn with a substantial forecourt in which recent excavation discovered neolithic pottery , two leaf arrowheads , and flint knives , and which has been dated 2650 BC . |
| 2 | I emphasise to the House that that has been made clear both in the speech of my right hon. Friend to the council of the Royal College of General Practitioners and in the management advice document issued by the management executive . |
| 3 | Now I do n't believe that this issue has been aired wide enough it 's understood by a lot of people what the problems are going to be these problems are n't gon na occur in the next ten years , they will happen in twenty years ' time . |
| 4 | Hound Tor is a deserted settlement in Manaton parish , high on the east side of Dartmoor , which was excavated some years ago and has been left open so that visitors can see it . |
| 5 | ( In the SCAN scheme of analysis — see reference 2 — which we have developed to provide feedback to curriculum designers on the use of their material , we call these 1 and 3 levels of teacher guidance respectively , the level of demand is similarly classified unc The classification has been found useful much more widely . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that about 15.7 per cent . |
| 7 | He 'd been told that often enough in the old days . |
| 8 | This money should have been made available anyway . |
| 9 | Family planning was in the air ; newspapers and women 's magazines were openly discussing family planning by the 1930s in a manner which would have been considered outrageous just ten years before . |
| 10 | It will have been noted that , not content with imposing upon themselves the task of ruling through the tendering of advice , which might have been thought difficult enough , the British took upon themselves in Northern Nigeria the even more difficult task of ruling without actually appearing to rule at all — an undertaking whose very absurdity only emphasizes its interest . |
| 11 | He is no stranger to the changing work scene having been made redundant twice , finally joining Scottish Amicable ten years ago in 1982 . |
| 12 | I 'm sure that er I 'm not in an unusual position er having been made redundant twice on the trot . |
| 13 | Item — Lady Eleanor had been seen alive just before the service began by Dame Martha and Dame Elizabeth . |
| 14 | Dr Marshall , 60 , said it was disgraceful that she had been given little more than 48 hours to tidy her office . |
| 15 | They had been made redundant involuntarily and had worked full-time in the factory in low-paid , unskilled manual jobs on the shopfloor . |
| 16 | The first two of those were also included were made public , they are in the issue 's papers it did not make public the county council 's proposal as to who should be participants for each topic since those were matters for the the panel er to ma take a view of and I understood er from er the question er the answer to the question that it had been made clear that er the information had been made public except as always Chairman , er our legal office 's of the council always like that caveat that in case anything had been missed out I had just in fact suggested that perhaps not everything had been made public so I anticipated a possible supplementary question from Mr . |
| 17 | However , contrary to the rig 's operating manual , the centre ballast tanks had been kept full instead of empty , resulting in a ‘ condition in which a 10–15 o list could develop rapidly ’ , the board said . |
| 18 | It would be b because the straw , the thatch had been pulled all straight it would flowing down , and then they used to er they used to th throw it over , it would be throwing the water away from the stack had been built like an egg you know . |
| 19 | He who has gone through life without being tested is one who had been considered unworthy ever to gain the victory over fortune . |
| 20 | Bathing , which before leaving London had been deemed suitable only for the lower classes , suddenly seemed a most adventurous and desirable way of spending an afternoon . |
| 21 | As I recall , I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger , naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse , when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs . |
| 22 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 23 | She had been physically hurt when she was dragged from the villa and she had been held captive ever since . |
| 24 | It seemed that she had been knocked silly too . |
| 25 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 26 | as two apostles of Jesus said we 've been declared righteous now by his word , the boy of Jesus God 's son |
| 27 | I 've been told that before by a hypnotherapist . |
| 28 | That 's for things like looking after babies who 've been left alone too long , or playing with little kids who get lonely . |
| 29 | er from the other hotel , I 've been promised that anyway . |
| 30 | ‘ Mister Morris , you 've been set free then ? ’ |