Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various highways and public transport requirements can be covered by negative conditions i.e. no houses should be occupied until the specified roadworks etc. have been completed to the satisfaction of the Director of Highways . |
| 2 | It , too , sounded good but eighteen months later had been applied to only four favoured countries — Mexico , Venezuela , Costa Rica and the Philippines . |
| 3 | She spoke in a curiously musical , richly accented way with a certain pattern that could only be described as antique — as though the speech mannerisms of the local dales folk of two centuries ago had been preserved within Hannah . |
| 4 | ‘ And I , ’ said Auguste eagerly , ‘ heard of a man who was poisoned because the coffee he drank was strained through a linen cloth which months earlier had been soaked in atropine solution , and mistakenly used again . |
| 5 | The descriptions above have been based on estimating and planning the use of time on the project . |
| 6 | The descriptions above have been based on estimating and planning the use of time on the project . |
| 7 | The transistors here have been replaced with BC108 types . |
| 8 | Conditions for the tens of thousands of refugees there have been described in harrowing terms by UN officials who have visited the town . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most famous incumbent of Stanton Lacy is poor Robert Foulkes , who was one of the very few clergymen ever to have been executed for murder . |
| 10 | Drake , on the other hand , the piratical darling of Good Queen Bess , returned from a transglobal raiding adventure with a holdful of Indonesian spices , and paraded through the streets with his crew bedecked in the captured finery of the most astounding oriental silks and damasks ever to have been seen in England . |
| 11 | He worked at a pharmaceutical firm processing chlorthalidone and nifedipine , but 5 days ago had been moved to the micronisation of glibenclamide , only recently introduced at the firm . |
| 12 | He climbed them sadly until finally he reached a low corridor , which many years ago had been decorated in dark brown : the paint had been flaking off for years . |
| 13 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |
| 14 | AN old £600 Corvette car stolen 21 years ago has been returned to its owner in mint condition in Missouri . |
| 15 | A man charged with murdering his wife more than twenty years ago has been committed for trial . |
| 16 | The 2,250 people employed two years ago have been cut to about 1,000 , of whom 300 are on ‘ short-time working with nil hours ’ ; the workforce will be down to 600 by December . |
| 17 | The huge drafty dorms of ten years ago have been replace with study bedrooms , and the Four Marys no longer wear school uniform all the time and appear to have lost their hats as well ! |
| 18 | Since workwear , for want of any better term , is n't really new in this country at all ( American denim brands like Lee and Levi 's are hardly passing fads ) and since the more recent brand arrivals here have been worn for years in the US and Australia , hype accusations are a little misguided . |
| 19 | As each group of rigs arrived they moved quietly on to the sloping cobbled ramp , which in times past had been used by a civilian ferry , and with a hiss of hydraulics opened out . |
| 20 | The worst damage to hulls etc. had been reported on arrival in the area after last night 's operation , and the troop 's attached REME Forward Repair Team had worked on for hours after most others had taken to their sleeping bags . |
| 21 | The dates below have been agreed between the Director and the Producer . |
| 22 | The dates below have been agreed between the Director and the Producer . |
| 23 | The dates below have been agreed between the Director and the Producer . |
| 24 | Despite intensive searches neither has been found on Bouvetøya and only the grass is known from the South Sandwich Islands . |
| 25 | Information from boreholes etc. had been collected by the Survey since its formation but the new Act made the task a full time job . |
| 26 | However , the SPO 's electoral prospects apparently had been damaged by Draskovic 's earlier calls , much toned down during the campaign , for redrawing Serbia 's borders to include parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia : many voters were frightened away by what sounded like a call for civil war . |
| 27 | The decoration around the windows and along the string-course is delightful , the corbels especially having been sculpted into a strange and compelling variety of animals , monsters and more or less human figures . |
| 28 | A CLAIM by Borders Area of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland that Government cuts in hill ewe subsidy would take £120,000 out of the local economy in three valleys alone has been criticised by Sir Hector Monro , Scottish minister of agriculture . |
| 29 | Terms also have been accepted by Paul Berry , a 21-year-old batsman from Manchester , and Rugby School 's prolific runscorer , Richard Montgomerie . |
| 30 | We have seen an example of this general short-sightedness in the the cultural community 's reactions to the tragedy of Los Angeles , which like other conflicts today has been attributed to purely local factors . |