Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [coord] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is especially clear in the later stages of the market , when the relatively simple relations of speculative production have been joined and in many areas replaced by planned marketing operations in which certain types of work are positively promoted , of course with the corollary that other types are left at best to make their own way . |
| 2 | I was staggered to realise I had been honoured and to this day I do n't know who put me forward . ’ |
| 3 | The new young secretary of the BFASS , Louis Chamerovzow , described the aristocratic group as one whose antislavery feelings ‘ had not simply been re-awakened but in many instances actually created by Mrs. Stowe 's work ’ , distancing such newcomers from those who had laboured long in the cause . |
| 4 | The lands to the north and east of a line joining these two houses had in the ninth century been conquered and to some degree settled by pagan Scandinavians , who had destroyed the existing monasteries and several of the bishoprics , and such evidence as there is suggests that the Christianity practised within them retained aspects upon which the stricter kind of churchman would have frowned . |
| 5 | It is , of course , desirable to check that nothing has been forgotten and to this end it is usual to ask an operator to go through the designed procedure while observing what he does and also observing that the system performs as expected . |
| 6 | To handle these , a separate telephone line with a twenty four hour answering machine service has been installed and to each individual is sent a list of stockists for their local area , together with a covering letter . |
| 7 | But by that time stadia had been booked and in most cases new arrangements could not be made . |
| 8 | In all such cases the court must estimate as best it can what would have happened if the plaintiff had not been injured and on that basis must assess his loss . |
| 9 | Perhaps he had been kidnapped or for some reason forced to adopt another identity , in which case he could be trusted to reappear , several reigns later , cover himself in glory and inherit the throne . |
| 10 | Jespersen , for instance , is of the opinion that although " to had at first its ordinary prepositional meaning of direction … the meaning of the preposition has been weakened and in some cases totally extinguished " ( 1927 : 10 ) . |
| 11 | As railway systems all over the world have contracted , so the great stations have been threatened and in many places destroyed . |
| 12 | In many companies the normal management accounting system will only pick up a currency exposure when the sales entry has been made and by that time adverse currency fluctuations could have eroded or wiped out the profit margin . |
| 13 | ‘ I do think that public concern over the leniency of the original sentence has been assuaged and in that sense I suppose some justice has been done . ’ |
| 14 | says explaining why he had come to earth Jesus told the Roman governor Pontius Pilate , will thus I 've been born and for this purpose I have come out of the world that I should bear witness to the truth , but what particular truth was Jesus sent to earth to make no man , first just about his heavenly father , he taught his followers to pray that his father name be hallowed or hell holy and he prayed , I have made your name manifest to the man you gave me , also he said I must declare the good news with the kingdom of God , because for this I was sent forth , so what truths did Jesus come to er , to tell ? |
| 15 | Everything people said about Kelly was supposition , nothing against him had ever been proved and in this country you were innocent until proven guilty . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most interesting feature of the experience so far for Britain is to recognise the care with which the health problems of minority populations have been investigated and to some extent acted on . |
| 17 | It usually starts shortly after the animals have been weaned and in most instances it only persists for a few months . |
| 18 | I know that enthusiastic palaeontologists in several countries have claimed pieces of this missing record , but the claims have all been disputed and in any case do not provide real connections . |
| 19 | By letting the property market lead , the industrial sector has been ignored and on many occasions existing industry has been driven out or left to die . |