Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |
| 2 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 3 | It was coloured a garish blue , an obvious re-spraying job after massive areas of the body-work had been filled in after various collisions . |
| 4 | But , besides this we found those who had not been stopped etc. at all still reflected the overall differences between races — Blacks being least favourable , Asians most favourable , with Whites being sometimes closer to Blacks and sometimes closer to Asians . |
| 5 | Daffodil Quentin 's runner , Pampering , had been flown in with five others owned by people on the train , all of whom were strolling around with rosettes and almost permanently smiling faces . |
| 6 | The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which . |
| 7 | By 8am they have been joined by over 50 more , and at least 80 vehicles . |
| 8 | During the long night , the car would have been joined silently by another . |
| 9 | And match referee Deryck Murray remains baffled as to why his report has been tucked away in some International Cricket Council file . |
| 10 | Twenty minutes later the guest speaker , Alex Campbell ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) arrived ( his train had been delayed by over two hours ) and the audience was entertained with a lecture/demonstration on Instant fire . |
| 11 | ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time . |
| 12 | Poems from the ‘ April Fifth ’ movement of 1976 had been posted there during 1978 . |
| 13 | Mary Henderson , Greek by birth , had first come across Laura Ashley in Paris when she and her husband had been posted there in 1975 . |
| 14 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 15 | By the day before the completion of sale all the goods in her house had been gathered together in one room downstairs , some packed in wooden crates , some in black leather cases and tapestry bags , some still living free . |
| 16 | It is , therefore , a site of some strategic significance in any military context , a fact which has been recognized continuously since Roman times , when , at least under Agricola if not before , a fort was established here . |
| 17 | The authorities in Bosnia-Hercegovina ( whose independence , proclaimed in March — see p. 38832 — had been recognized widely since early April — -see pp. 38848-49 ) repeatedly requested foreign military aid and there were warnings that a flood of refugees , both Moslems and ethnic Croats , could pose a serious problem for neighbouring countries . |
| 18 | Among the canonist collectors and commentators at Bologna ( and probably also in Rome from time to time ) were the Englishmen , Gilbert and Alan , whose importance in canon law scholarship has been recognized only in recent years . |
| 19 | AN IDEA for transmitting signals through the mains wiring has been traced back to 1897 , when Joseph Routin and C. E. L. Brown of Zurich , Switzerland , took out British Patent number 24833 . |
| 20 | But the DIA would n't risk any action based on information that might have been traced back to one of Asmar 's people . |
| 21 | Colic , eczema , asthma , persistent runny nose , glue ear , headaches , migraine and even behavioural problems , have all been traced back to certain foods or food additives . |
| 22 | The salmonella has been traced back to contaminated Scotch eggs . |
| 23 | Mills 's activity as a surveyor and architect has been traced back to 1638 , but his claim to architectural celebrity was his building in 1654–6 of Thorpe Hall , near Peterborough , for Oliver St John [ q.v . ] , |
| 24 | The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east . |
| 25 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 26 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 28 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 29 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 30 | The discontent with de Gaulle 's policies , which had been building steadily since 1958 , suddenly burst into the open . |