Example sentences of "been [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rumback had been asleep slumped over his desk and just as Endill removed the last screw he awoke with a start . |
| 2 | Writing it reinforced her conviction that she had been right to stay in Florence . |
| 3 | All 3,700 US forces currently remaining in Kuwait had been due to leave in September , and the US announcement thus revived reports of the Kuwaiti government 's continuing interest in securing a Western military presence in the country [ see p. 38407 ] . |
| 4 | Gutiérrez had reportedly been due to testify in court that his orders to assassinate Jaramillo had come from Pablo Escobar . |
| 5 | So that the meeting and the usual Saturday-night social that was to follow it could end before curfew , proceedings had been due to commence at six but , even so , no one really expected a punctual start . |
| 6 | From Antwerp she had gone to Santander , where she had been due to return to London , but had been diverted to Bilbao instead . |
| 7 | She had been due to return from the Balmoral estate for the engagement tomorrow afternoon at St James 's Palace and St Martin-in-the-Fields Church . |
| 8 | The train had been due to arrive at Euston at 9.30 . |
| 9 | The Polish Solidarity leader , Lech Walesa , had called for their release and had been due to arrive in Chile on Oct. 26 at the invitation of the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores ( CUT ) to try to obtain their release . |
| 10 | Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed . |
| 11 | The Governor had been due to fly to London on 5 June to testify to the Commons foreign affairs committee on the condition of the colony following the Joint Declaration . |
| 12 | The IBOA Waterford Area Outing had been due to start at 10 . |
| 13 | Azeri pressure was also said to be behind Turkey 's decision not to go ahead with deliveries of electricity amounting to 30-35 Mw per day , which had been due to start on Dec. 1 . |
| 14 | She sued the Ministry of Defence at the Court of Session and the agreement was announced shortly before evidence had been due to start before Lord Prosser yesterday . |
| 15 | The talks had begun on Aug. 1 , having originally been due to start in mid-July . |
| 16 | The trial had been due to begin on Jan. 28 , but was delayed after Noriega 's lawyers claimed that the prosecution had used procedures which threatened to deny the defendant a fair trial . |
| 17 | Proceedings had been due to resume on Monday next week , but the commission was on standby to travel down over the weekend if necessary if there was an improvement in his client 's health . |
| 18 | His earlier lease had been due to expire during the previous year . |
| 19 | The Pact for Economic Stability and Growth [ see p. 37078 ] , which had been due to expire on March 31 , 1990 , was on Dec. 4 , 1989 , extended until July 31 , 1990 . |
| 20 | The mandate of the provisional President , Joseph Nerette , which had been due to expire on Jan. 8 after a three-month term , was extended indefinitely [ see p. 38523 ] . |
| 21 | It has been possible to map in detail the migration and fate of the neural crest cells in the chick because of a fortuitous discovery made in 1968 by the French embryologist Nicole Le Douarin . |
| 22 | It has been possible to continue with the South African bursaries programme . |
| 23 | Why it should have been possible to arrest without warrant for this ridiculous crime was not clear . |
| 24 | Plans for this were made some years ago , but it has not been possible to proceed with them ( a ) because of lack of funds , and ( b ) because the personnel department has overall responsibility in all departments of the authority ’ … |
| 25 | For various reasons , it has not been possible to arrange for this sub-committee to meet . |
| 26 | However , with British Council assistance it has been possible to arrange for a Romanian student to successfully complete a conservations course at Cambridge . |
| 27 | Since nineteen eighty seven it has been possible to arrange for employees to have charitable donations deducted from their pay through the payroll giving scheme . |
| 28 | One aspect of the regional geography of job loss and job change which it has not been possible to examine in the chapter is the contrasting ways in which different regions of the UK relate to the international division of labour . |
| 29 | Reverting again to the 11+ , it would have been possible to respond to the results of the tests by saying , ‘ boys are less able at age 11 — they are failing to make proper use of their primary school education ’ or , as in fact happened , by removing the responsibility from individual boys and situating it elsewhere , in this instance in biology . |
| 30 | An impressive set of performances , then , though at a total playing time of less than 57 minutes it should surely have been possible to fit in another item . |