Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proceedings may be instituted before a national court , and such proceedings have been successfully brought in the UK . |
| 2 | For them " the splendid utterance of the divine in all mankind " had been definitively expressed over a thousand years previously in the way of life and teaching of Jesus Christ in Palestine , in his death at the hands of violently destructive men and in his restoration in life with the source of all being , God . |
| 3 | Nigel was strapped into a light commode in a sitting position and had been carefully carried down the fire escape to the waiting car . |
| 4 | When the loan has been fully paid up the lender has to reassign the house to the borrower . |
| 5 | All the suggestions for improvement had been adequately implemented so the conclusion could only be that neither party had grasped the size and nature of the problem . |
| 6 | It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used — against the strongly voiced wishes of the leading physicists responsible for developing them — to destroy two cities instead of being deployed in the equivalent of spectacularly shooting out candles . |