Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring . |
| 2 | In Great Britain there is no such force , and the gap has been filled in recent years by a militarization of the police force . |
| 3 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 5 | The aircraft had been flown already that day , before refuelling for Herr Hess 's trip , and the motor was still warm . |
| 6 | You 've just been seeing too many films . |
| 7 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 8 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 9 | The management has , very decently , been slapping up borrowed works of art . |
| 10 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 11 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 12 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 13 | For example , the late John Strachey , former Minister of Food , used to contend that had the notorious African Ground Nuts Scheme been placed just 30 miles to the West of the site chosen in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ) , the climate differed just sufficiently there that all would have been well . |
| 14 | The spotted mare came from Billy Smart 's and jumps a flaming hoop suspended at five feet , the chestnut in the horsebox is an ex-hunter who once belonged to the Duke of Beaufort , this one I 'm holding has been placed twice round Badminton , and Hoomey 's — ’ |
| 15 | The North Down skipper reports no new arrivals on the scene and , although Colin Mockford has left to join Holywood , the Harp Senior League champions will have a significant input as Paul Johnston and Kyle Thompson have both been helping out first XI coach Austin Hunter . |
| 16 | Getting prisoners to realise there are people worse off than themselves , is the main idea behind a 3-day event at Stoke Mandeville. 30 of them have been helping mentally handicapped people of all ages simply to enjoy themselves . |
| 17 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 18 | The amplifier will then have been adjusted so that zero field corresponds to zero output , the first step in achieving calibration . |
| 19 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |
| 20 | Tax sensitive decisions will have been explained thus improving client liaison . |
| 21 | At breakfast , I had been given freshly home-made bread , and I felt at peace with the world . |
| 22 | Again we have been given right royal treatment by a preserved railway , following our wonderful trip to the Llangollen last year . |
| 23 | It 's as if you had been given not one vote , but a fifth of a vote . |
| 24 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 25 | This debate , which essentially arises out of the Piper Alpha disaster , has been given even greater poignancy due to the reports that we have received of a major explosion at Grangemouth . |
| 26 | The Harris family had been given just two weeks to find eight thousand pounds in mortgage arrears . |
| 27 | Yet these men and women are well off compared to their counterparts in Ghana where subject teams had been given just nine months to produce new curriculum plans and to launch a new series of materials to fit a ‘ new content and structure of education ’ announced by the cabinet . |
| 28 | On the second day Smith was palpably out lbw but went on the score 42 ; Mujtaba was given out when the ball seemed to hit his boot ; and Gooch , I believe , should have been given out three times in the second innings . |
| 29 | The attitudinal function has been given so much importance in past work on intonation that it will be discussed separately in this chapter , though it should eventually become clear that it overlaps considerably with the discourse function . |
| 30 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |