Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Their heads had been eased into the yoke , and they were now locked into the system .
2 Perry was a thick-set , bull-necked man who looked as if he 'd been eased into his suit with a shoe-horn .
3 Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations .
4 The problem of lack of time has been eased to some degree by the setting up of communal kitchens like those in Lima , Peru .
5 The water shortage faced by thousands of refugees in Jordan has been eased with the help of the Oxford based charity Oxfam .
6 Earlier funding difficulties [ see p. 37583 ] , had been eased in December 1990 with the successful raising of over £560,000,000 through a rights issue in Paris and London .
7 Oldham 's task at Gateshead may have been eased by the Tynesiders ' dismissal earlier this week of their American guard , Darryl Thomas .
8 Apart from the language barrier , which has been eased by the general acceptance of English everywhere except in France , British and Continental military staffs have practically no shared operational experience or traditions .
9 The struggle for Cyprus had been eased by British acceptance of the Sovereign Base concept , though the Zurich Agreement between Greece and Turkey , which enabled Britain to grant Cyprus its independence , was not signed until February 1959 .
10 Financial insecurity , once the big driving force , has been eased by the salary , perks and pension of the commissionership , according to his friends .
11 Pressure on the finances has been eased by Euro Disney 's deferring its base management fee for 1992 and 1993 , due to the Walt Disney Company in America .
12 Women suffer a dual burden of work inside and outside the home and the strains experienced by working mothers have not been eased by offers of help either from male partners or the wider community and the state .
13 Since 1982 , the burden of CGT has been eased by the welcome introduction of index-linking .
14 Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer .
15 Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer .
16 A safety valve releases any excess pressure once the air chamber has been filled to capacity .
17 When one half of the train had been filled to bursting point it would ‘ draw up ’ …
18 The gap left by the withdrawal of the worst examples has been filled with Class 312s , and ex-London Midland 310s .
19 The front pages of official newspapers have been filled with tales of glorious national triumphs , offset by with a smattering of gloom from the West — unemployment in the US , drugs in Britain , and so on .
20 The gaps between the walls of the coral skeleton have been filled with calcite , showing up as the lighter colours of the sections .
21 The empty chambers are usually supposed to have been filled with gas , which help to give the animal buoyancy , and via the siphuncle the animal can vary its buoyancy to control its position in the water column .
22 The entrance has been filled with stones , but I can see a sunken area inside making a small arena , in the centre of which there 's a red stone three feet high the shape of a cotton reel and , in a round black patch , evidence of a fire .
23 Those who have been filled with all the previous beatitudes of Christ now overflow in mercy to those around them .
24 The remains of water-mills have been consistently removed ; the weirs which hold up river levels have been dismantled ; and mill-ponds and mill-races have been filled with the dredgings .
25 The wadi would rarely have been filled with water , but deep down , the soil was moist , and trees were able to drink from its reserve .
26 It was the best going I could hope to see , but just beyond that wall of water , minutes away , the ground became lacerated with gulleys , as if a maze of streams had scored the ground and had been filled with sand .
27 In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money .
28 I reflected that I was not sure if I had ever been filled with the Holy Spirit , let alone spoken the word of God boldly .
29 Before Nathan entered , her mind had been filled with the prospect of playing Lady Macbeth at last , and to all appearance she might still have been thinking of nothing but that .
30 Once he and his henchman had been obliged to leave the wrecked apartment on the avenue Foch , he had been filled with apprehension at having to report his failure direct to Teheran .
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