Example sentences of "all been [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing wrong with the boat 's lines , which were sleekly functional , but her long powerful hull , her upperworks , and even the interior of her capacious working deck had all been painted with a wartime dazzle paint . |
| 2 | The procedures developed during this particular investigation have all been conducted on a Computer Vision turnkey system . |
| 3 | At the event the desktop publisher was basking in the reflected glory when a lady sitting next to him suddenly said ‘ Oh dear , it 's all been done on a computer . ’ |
| 4 | But colonialism , the tensions caused by a feudal economy 's reaction to capitalism and finally the effects of capitalism itself have all been imposed on a social structure which can be traced much further back . |
| 5 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 6 | It did not happen : and yet the demise of the book , the transformation of the traditional classroom , and indeed the end of schools and colleges as we now know them , have all been forecast with an almost hilarious regularity throughout the century , with the results that we see around us . |
| 7 | Recent rights issues , takeovers and even foreign exchange losses have all been sprung on an unsuspecting public rather than , as was the pattern in the mid-1980s , infiltrating the market through the columns of the Sunday newspapers . |
| 8 | It has all been organised by a group of venture Scouts from Abingdon in Oxfordshire . |