Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The aircraft had been flown already that day , before refuelling for Herr Hess 's trip , and the motor was still warm . |
| 3 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 4 | The amplifier will then have been adjusted so that zero field corresponds to zero output , the first step in achieving calibration . |
| 5 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had been given so many things to digest , not the least that it was possible Celia might have a father still living . |
| 10 | Never before had anyone in Europe been given so many transplants : |
| 11 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 12 | It is a pity but my father , Elfed , has been given very little credit in articles and books . |
| 13 | I think to be honest to you , the the have been given very little guidance , she does n't understand what 's supposed to happen |
| 14 | A police officer told the coroner he 'd found youths on the site at least six times since the fence had been erected earlier this year . |
| 15 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |
| 16 | He had been let down several times , they had done all sorts of things without asking him , and sometimes he only found out what they 'd been up to when the papers rang for comment . |
| 17 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 18 | I 've been sat there all evening nobody 's eaten it so I thought I might as well get on and eat it |
| 19 | On the other hand Labour 's commission will start to develop proposals only after a broad social and economic ‘ audit ’ of the population has been carried out this year . |
| 20 | Windmill Fields and the Lymington Bottom triangle had been definitely listed as open space , and once landscaping work has been done both these areas will be handed over to the parish council for maintenance . |
| 21 | If so , what was this creature , that had stood before him naked and singular , but concealed multitudes ? ; this power Chant had said possessed no friends ( it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERS , he 'd written ) and had been done as much harm in these dealings ( again , Chant 's words ) as Estabrook , to whom Chant had offered his contrition and his prayers ? |
| 22 | It 's been done too many times . |
| 23 | Oak Grove Road slopes down sharply from Croydon Road and houses had already been built nearly half way down . |
| 24 | The Luna Café on Soviet Boulevard faces the gardens and the old Liberation monument that had been built there several régimes back and — so it is said — was something of a milestone in municipal graft . |
| 25 | It has not been revealed how much money the Bulgers have been paid for the interview , but the figure is thought to be in the five-figure bracket . |
| 26 | Her make-up had been applied thickly that morning but with great dexterity . |
| 27 | It has been made plain that Government policy on aid will be increasingly conditioned by the performance of recipient governments in terms of human rights and observance of democratic practices , and I wholly welcome that . |
| 28 | He 's been made up this morning , he 's had a big tax rebate , fifteen hundred quid ! |
| 29 | We have been written off all season , but we must keep believing . ’ |
| 30 | Mr Pozsgay has been written off many times . |