Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 2 | The main anti-apartheid parties , unbanned by the government in February 1990 are : the African National Congress ( ANC , Oliver Tambo , pres. , Nelson Mandela , deputy pres. ) ; the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ; Clarence Makwetu was elected president in December after the death in October of Zephania Mothopeng ; PAC general secretary is Benny Alexander — see pp. 37765 , 37910 ) ; the PAC refuses to negotiate with the government until a constituent assembly has been elected by universal suffrage ; the Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo , Pandelani Nefolovhodwe , pres. ) , which rejects outright any negotiations with the government ; and the South African Communist Party ( SACP , Joe Slovo gen. sec. ) , which re-launched itself as a legal political party within South Africa in July 1990 . |
| 3 | When we are satisfied that this stage of the transaction has been completed in good faith , you will receive the rest of the items through the post . ’ |
| 4 | Heighington Planning appeal : An appeal has been lodged over refused planning permission for a 15-bedroom hotel and manager 's flat at Heighcliffe Country Club . |
| 5 | Flocked paper has been coated with powdered cotton . |
| 6 | Some of the most significant changes have affected rural areas , and Development Area or Intermediate Area status has been withdrawn from large parts of rural Wales , Scotland and northern England ( figure 3.3b ) . |
| 7 | So far the choice has been fudged by declared commitments to both EC technological collaboration and more competition . |
| 8 | as if to underline fears about new diseases from Europe , that symbol of unity the Channel tunnel has been fitted with electronic fox traps to prevent that most dreaded of diseases , rabies . |
| 9 | The University 's approach to financial planning ( as has been explained on previous occasions ) is essentially conservative , in that its systems are aimed at forecasting what funds will be available during the planning period and deciding how best to apply them to the academic priorities already identified . |
| 10 | This I 'm pleased to say is being done , a meeting has been arranged with British Aerospace , it should have taken place on Monday er Mike was deputizing me at that meeting and I 'm waiting to see what the outcome of that meeting is . |
| 11 | This year , the mass has been arranged at Holy Cross Church , Hoylake Road , Birkenhead , and afterwards at Our Lady 's Parish Centre , Park Road North , Birkenhead . |
| 12 | Pain arising from the costal margin has been recognised in medical studies for many years . |
| 13 | The importance of persuading individuals to save for their own pension instead of just relying on the State has been recognised by successive governments . |
| 14 | The Upton park and ride has been built on zoo-owned ground at a cost of £1m and will eventually have 750 spaces . |
| 15 | This is the highest point of the Floriade , while the lowest is some 4.5m below sea level because the whole festival has been built on reclaimed land . |
| 16 | Others consist mainly of equipment that has been built for particular experiments . |
| 17 | A children s adventure playground has been built in recent years , and the field is well used by the village football and cricket teams . |
| 18 | The little that has been written about private health care in developing countries suggests great variations among doctors and countries . |
| 19 | Much has been written by social anthropologists against the materialist approaches in ethnographic analysis . |
| 20 | The book , entitled ‘ The Land of the Roe ’ , has been written by local school teacher Mr Samuel Mitchell and has been produced in association with Limavady Borough Council mainly as a resource for schools and colleges in the council area . |
| 21 | Although Hampden Babylon will be distrusted by managers , administrators , footballers and agents , it has been written from inside football . |
| 22 | So much has been written in recent years about Ralph Sarich 's Orbital two-stroke engine that our award for technical innovation might appear somewhat tardy . |
| 23 | Much has been written in recent years of the so-called " male menopause " . |
| 24 | A good deal has been written in recent years about Primitive Catholicism , the tendency apparent even within the New Testament period itself to domesticate the Holy Spirit , to make him the perquisite of the Church . |
| 25 | His Laws is still read with pleasure when much that has been written in intervening centuries on the subjects which he treated appears arid , unintelligible , pompous or irrelevant . |
| 26 | Significantly , twenty-two of them are still in service today , although their distinctive design has been lost under extensive rebuilding . |
| 27 | Can my right hon. Friend find time during his busy day to congratulate the management and staff of Rover on the fact that over the past 12 months not one single minute of production time has been lost through industrial disputes ? |
| 28 | We are convinced that the philosophy which was originally intended to predominate in the post-war UK child care legislation — namely that the work of public agencies was to provide supportive services to families , part of which could include admission to care as a means ultimately of preserving family relationships in the long run — has been lost from current practice . |
| 29 | Surely the magic has been lost from pop music because she is now nearer 30 than 13 . |
| 30 | Many businesses close ; employment has been lost in rural areas ; when subsidies first went and interest rates were high large numbers of farmers were forced to leave their land . |