Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 He looked like a man who had just found that his tax returns had been filled in by Ken Dodd 's accountant , or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography .
2 David Wilshire , MP for Spelthorne , told the House Mr Naqvi 's body had been flown in to Heathrow yesterday morning .
3 Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia .
4 Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia .
5 With al-Kassar 's blessing , he met the Magharians in Bern and Zurich to set up accounts for his family , each meeting taped and monitored by Coleman 's assistant Syrian George , who had been flown in from Cyprus for this purpose .
6 The bodies of eight of the nine airmen killed when their Hercules crashed last week have been flown back to RAF Lyneham .
7 THE body of a 53-year-old French Catholic priest who was murdered in Brazil on Christmas Eve has been flown back to France , amid a row between the church and police over the investigation of his death .
8 Yugoslav Macedonians had also been flown back from Athens under a new regulation demanding that they should possess US$1,000 on entry to Greece .
9 In the meantime , F/O Kohn had been flown back by ATA ‘ taxi ’ for another aircraft .
10 The audience of willing females had shouted the answer so loudly that it could probably have been heard back in Monte Samana .
11 Production had been building up at Courtaulds ' $85 million plant near Mobile , Alabama , since June , 1992 .
12 Something approaching a personal crisis had been building up since Nietzsche 's return from the unforgettable distress of war .
13 But if Hardy 's Virgilianism had been pointed out to Pound , this would not have counted in Hardy 's favour .
14 However , that this is not the case had been pointed out by Professor Lodge , of the Department of French Studies in Newcastle University , in a letter to the Guardian , in which he argues that it is a matter of concern that ‘ A level presentations in modern languages are falling away sharply , particularly among boys ’ .
15 It has since been pointed out by Digby McLaren ( 1970 ) that many other groups disappeared at the same level or underwent traumatic changes .
16 It has recently been pointed out by Dr J. R. Studd that ‘ one of [ the Lord ] Edward 's greatest problems was his inability to settle lands from his appanage [ of Gascony and the isle of Oléron ] on those who gave him loyal service in a traditional way ’ .
17 It has been pointed out by Dr Baugh that if rising levels of poor-relief expenditure are expressed in per capita terms and related to wheat prices , the real level of poor-relief spending was fairly constant from the early 1790s to 1814 .
18 Such a view is easily reconciled with Marxist theory , as has been pointed out by E. Terray [ Terray , 1977a ] .
19 The synapsis of sign has already been pointed out by Hirtle ( 1967 : 21 ) , but the reason suggested for it — namely , that the infinitive has the meaning " event time not yet actualized " and the non-past indicative implies " event in the not yet stretch of universe time " — will have to be re-examined .
20 This has already been pointed out by Hoffman but his advice has been ignored .
21 One of the difficulties in designing this type of interface has been pointed out by Caruso , in that the design of IIDA was finalized prior to DIALOG 's introduction of SS — Select Steps command — so these are not included in IIDA .
22 It has also been pointed out by Kendall ( 1975 ) that the original 1936 legislation on union rights within the enterprise gave the ‘ most representative ’ unions in the plant the right to bargain , which was not necessarily the majority union .
23 However , it has been pointed out by Dr. B. Leadbeater , that great care must be taken before these formulae are used to determine the efficiency of dilution for abatement of odour nuisance , for in order to achieve concentrations below the threshold detection levels some odorants would need diluting by a factor in order of 6,000 , so unless very high chimneys are contemplated this method only provides a limited answer .
24 This has been pointed out by Lind ( 1983 : 271 ) , who adduces the following examples to show that there is " no correlation between active participation and omission of to " : ( 23 ) … he said briefly , helping me climb in through the rear window .
25 A couple to note in the Sturt colours are Scintillas Crest and Scintillas Silk — who have been pencilled in for Thursday 's meeting .
26 A tour has been pencilled in for November but , if you ca n't wait , Sean 's management would like to remind you that there 's a video around called Sean Hughes — Live And Seriously Funny .
27 Two particularly attractive games which could have a significant bearing on the title race have been pencilled in with Randalstown entertaining Portadown on Wednesday October 13 at Antrim Forum and Portadown taking on Pegasus at Blaris on November 24 .
28 The Malone Masters will span four days , two of them Pro-Am days , and has been pencilled in from Thursday to Sunday , August 12–15 .
29 Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ .
30 It is not clear whether these were part of the advance column who had been marched back from Bleiburg or some of the vast majority of the Croats who had never entered Austria at all .
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