Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Belgrove , a 32-year-old agricultural graduate , started by hacking down trees and giant weeds , under which were plants such as sedum and aquilegia which had been hidden since before the First World War . |
| 2 | A modified version of the southern mountain route has been examined because of the resolution . |
| 3 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 4 | This had been delayed because of the November 1991 general election [ see p. 38589 ] and the resulting political uncertainty . |
| 5 | Just as interesting perhaps is to visualise the landscape that would have been created if enclosure had been delayed until after the introduction of barbed wire in the 1870s . |
| 6 | The number of bidders on AFCAC 300 is thought to have been limited because of the amount of money needed to pursue it . |
| 7 | They have been conserved and in the main appear green . |
| 8 | Indeed , it has been calculated that by the end of the decade some 3 billion pages of information will be published by businesses worldwide . |
| 9 | I agree with both the judgments that have been given and with the reasons given in those judgments for allowing this appeal . |
| 10 | All Aitken 's evidence — uncontradicted by any other evidence — confirms that well before Curtis Brown received the £500 , instructions had been given as to the charitable destination of the money . |
| 11 | Like other party leaders before and since , Ramsay MacDonald had been regarded as on the Left before his election , particularly because of his opposition to the war and his domination of the Independent Labour Party after Keir Hardie 's death in 1915 . |
| 12 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 13 | Even in the second half of this century almost twice as much energy will have been consumed as in the preceding 1950 years ( see table 5.17 ) . |
| 14 | Answer guide : In the former case an invoice for the goods or services supplied has been received whereas in the latter no invoice has been received at the time the accounts are drawn up therefore an estimate of the amount owing for the goods or services provided is made . |
| 15 | It has been forgotten that in the case of a very common expression ( historical materialism ) one should put the accent on the first term — ‘ historical ’ — and not on the second , which is of metaphysical origin . |
| 16 | By 1801 , not only had the conflicts between monarch and nobility over the extraction and use of rents and taxes , and the respective rights and duties of each , largely been resolved and in the process made irrelevant , but also the industrial revolution was well under way , establishing the basis for the growing political ascendancy of the industrial classes over both monarchy and aristocracy . |
| 17 | If the judge awarded damages to the petitioner on the grounds that there was no compromise or that the compromise had been cancelled and on the grounds that the respondents had been guilty of misconduct in the Clearwater transaction , then the respondents could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |
| 18 | The manufacture of flannel had been discontinued because of the growth of the textile industry in the large towns — and the consequent loss of markets where it could be sold without loss . |
| 19 | Ministerial Flannel IT HAS been reported that at the launch of National Dyslexia Week , the Duke of Westminster , entering into the spirit of the occasion ( and surely nothing else was intended ) , introduced the junior education minister and Darlington MP . |
| 20 | That philosophy requires tests that have not been done before in the US , and that may never have been done but for the consortium 's help . |
| 21 | It has been reckoned that in the Northern Ireland Assembly election of 1973 eight seats out of 78 were won thanks to alphabetical voting . |
| 22 | In the past , analytical investigations of Far Eastern lacquer have been hampered because of the complexity of the natural polymer , the small samples of ancient objects available for study , and the lacquer 's insolubility in the usual solvents . |
| 23 | A Defence Ministry spokesman said that this had been decided because of the " difficult conditions " in Armenia , Azerbaijan and Georgia . |
| 24 | So , until the decision is made again , it is not possible to say whether the loss would not have been suffered but for the illegal decision . |
| 25 | In recent years a critical consensus has gradually been forming as to the nature of postmodernism . |
| 26 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 27 | It has been said that in the civil law tradition proof-taking ‘ often resembles a series of isolated pre-trial conferences rather than a concentrated trial ’ , which is helpful but must not be read as suggesting that these earlier stages are merely interlocutory ; they are an integral part of the judicial process . |
| 28 | Something has already been said as to the assignment of ordinary debts and ‘ choses in action' ; and the law relating to negotiable instruments — bills of exchange , cheques , and promissory notes — will be dealt with in the next chapter . |
| 29 | Extremely good ideas may have been incorporated and in the hands of the teacher involved the program may prove a powerful teaching aid . |
| 30 | Originally scheduled for the United States in October , the switch has been made because of the current state of anarchy in American offshore politics , particularly in the eyes of championship promoter , Mario Revenna , of Italy . |