Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WEST : New voices and opinions will be vying to be heard in Westminster now the Conservatives ' grip on the region has been eased slightly , especially by the defeat of the Tory chairman , Mr Patten , in Bath , writes Paul Stokes . |
| 2 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 3 | By then it was clear that the relaxation of tensions between East and West had gone far beyond the détente of the 1970s , when the Atlantic alliance and Warsaw Pact had remained strong and tensions had been eased only against a background of continuing ideological competition between the two sides . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well , we recognized that two three years ago but it has n't been filled yet |
| 6 | I saw yesterday' in Markstadt a shelter which has beds for 100 of these children ; 42 children had died in the last 24 hours , but these places had been filled up . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 8 | By 1914 the exchanges were filling 3,000 vacancies a day , but these would perhaps have been filled even in their absence . |
| 9 | Then it had been filled again , but this time there were no soft fruits from her native land . |
| 10 | As he did so , the older man picked up the glasses which had been filled previously , and deliberately poured them over her head . |
| 11 | It was an obvious and necessary position which should have been filled long before . |
| 12 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 13 | After a site has been filled in again only artefacts , notebooks and the photographic record remain to aid the archaeologist in the long post-excavation period when he or she has to decide what it all meant , and publish details of what was found . |
| 14 | The mill pond still existed during the 1950s , but has now been filled in . |
| 15 | Pits have been filled in and tips levelled to form the ubiquitous British , urban , flat landscape of close-mown turf and lollipop trees . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A clear run of four hundred yards was obtained after a few holes had been filled in . |
| 18 | It turned out that the forms had all been filled in correctly but the DSS had n't read them properly . |
| 19 | On sites where there are no walls or other solid remains , those differences alone show the presence of archaeological features , such as pits and ditches that have silted up or have been filled in . |
| 20 | Today , no coal is exported from North Shields — the old Northumberland Dock has been filled in and is the site of a gas treatment station , an oil depot and Velva Liquids , which handles chemicals , etc . |
| 21 | You can see that some more lines have been filled in automatically for you . |
| 22 | In Great Britain there is no such force , and the gap has been filled in recent years by a militarization of the police force . |
| 23 | However , it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring . |
| 24 | The pool in their own garden had been filled in by her father five years before when her baby brother had drowned there ; but she loved to sit by cool water , inured to the stinging flies which gave people from the north so much trouble . |
| 25 | In the cases that I have mentioned everything is in order — all the forms have been filled in and returned by the contractor , the work has been completed satisfactorily — but it is a long time before the cheque is processed and the contractor paid . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Important details have been filled in by experiments in channel flow ; transition is promoted by a vibrating ribbon close to one wall whilst flow in the other half of the channel remains undisturbed , so there is close resemblance to a boundary layer . |
| 28 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | Well tha well oh well that 's alright , it was only that it 'd be I thought you said there was a place for your name and address that had n't been filled in by the computer so you filled it in ? |