Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of liberal assumptions of free speech and tolerance meant that the anticlerical challenge came just when religion had been deprived of much of its legal protection . |
| 2 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 3 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 4 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 5 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 6 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 7 | Although the wording indicates that this had given rise to " considerable discussion " , implying that these methods had been questioned by some present , and the phrase " it was unwise to make any further interpretation " implies that those methods should not be spelled out too explicitly , the clear conclusion of the conference was that the policy being followed by 5 Corps should be given full backing . |
| 8 | Some serious steps had been taken towards that outburst of anticlericalism and , in particular , antipapalism which marked the later fourteenth century : suspicions had been raised about the church 's landed wealth and envy of it had been fanned ; resentment against the papacy — by the clergy as well as by the laity — was growing ; above all parliament was providing an assembly where hostility could be orchestrated , diffused and preserved . |
| 9 | If there was some other difficulty in obtaining all the required signatories to the election within the time limit and the Revenue had been notified of this and that each of the signatories had decided to make an election within the time limit , a late election will be accepted . |
| 10 | The three individuals were all ‘ phoned by a sultry female voice informing them that their bid had been matched by another . |
| 11 | If anyone in the club had been left with any doubt that you and I are in love , that touching little display on the dance floor must have convinced them otherwise . ’ |
| 12 | However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin . |
| 13 | However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin . |
| 14 | If the human mind had been created in such a way that it was matched to the intelligibility of nature , then the possibility of secure scientific knowledge could be affirmed . |
| 15 | All the same , Cissie was right in one assumption : Beth 's peace of mind had been shattered on that particular day . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , enough weight had been given by several sources to make it worthwhile checking . |
| 17 | Why of course : the Essoldo had been built for these middle class folk in the 1930s — they were Patrons ! |
| 18 | Throughout his trials with the Sex Pistols , Richard Branson had been engaged in another , even more delicate negotiation , one which promised , at last , to provide the antidote to the enduring unhappiness over his broken marriage . |
| 19 | Each practice was given the results of the study for all their participating patients after the study had been completed in that practice . |
| 20 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 21 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 22 | This method of examining the data has not been employed in the previous studies because no attempt had been made in those studies to be representative in the sampling of direction of turn at each junction ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
| 23 | In later letters to Hanns , John mentioned that ‘ we have quite a lot of black tarlatan , so if you could use it in your designs , do so ’ , as about £1 had been allowed for each costume and the tarlatan was free . |
| 24 | Police and army behaviour and tactics had been improved to some extent , especially in appreciating the need for reform policies rather than simple oppression . |
| 25 | One type of authoritarian rule had been followed by another , not allowing for that kind of unsettling liberalization which is so conducive to uprisings among minorities . |
| 26 | So this two bedroomed apartment in a hotel complex had been borrowed from some golfing friend of Mike 's , and here she was to stay until Mike could get her back home to London . |
| 27 | There was considerable debate as to whether any crime had been committed after all . |
| 28 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 29 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 30 | Along the crest of this ridge the rock had been exposed in several places , and eroded into a line of towers and pinnacles . |