Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His insults had been no less cutting than the American 's , they 'd just been delivered with more urbanity . |
| 2 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 3 | And the buildings looked as derelict as if they had all been lifted by some force and dropped again . |
| 4 | Swirling snowclouds and rain strengthened the illusion that there was no outside world anymore , and that they had all been transported to some frozen Hell . |
| 5 | He said that the message that " environment means business " had only been understood by few companies , and that small and medium-sized ones in particular had been slow to recognize the opportunities . |
| 6 | What 's more , she was on top of the Poll , and had obviously been supported by many men members . |
| 7 | Sandro Calvani , head of UNDCP 's Bolivian operations , defends his group 's activities , pointing out that his organisation started relief work in an area that had long been shunned by most other international agencies as too dangerous . |
| 8 | The second strand , the Bacon and Eltis thesis , took up a theme which had long been forgotten by all but Marxist economists , the distinction between ‘ productive ’ and ‘ unproductive ’ labour . |
| 9 | Aube wines had long been used by several Champagne houses , albeit on the quiet , and with no delimited region fixed the practice began to increase . |
| 10 | The principles underlying the poll tax had long been criticised by some sections of the party . |
| 11 | I think his system had already been weakened by some other compound , anyway . ’ |
| 12 | Knowing the complications and expense involved in getting together the various unguents required , one can assume that these items had already been accumulated by those to whom the task of embalming the royal remains had been devolved . |
| 13 | This clearance was important because I did intend to ask one or two questions about a matter which had already been aired in several books and articles , her love affair with H. G. Wells and the child of that union , the writer Anthony West . |
| 14 | This approach , which had already been followed by several German theologians in the nineteenth century , especially Gottfried Thomasius ( 1802–15 ) , took its cue from Philippians 2:7 , which speaks of Christ as having ‘ emptied himself ’ ( in Greek , ekenosen ) . |
| 15 | The significance of internal structures had already been accepted in some cases ( otherwise whales and dolphins would be classified as fish rather than as mammals ) , but Cuvier made this central to the classification of the whole animal kingdom . |
| 16 | Undamped relaxation oscillations had already been seen in such lasers , and at the time of writing there is the exciting prospect that the Lorenz system of equations may soon develop an experimental significance in laser physics to match their theoretical impact . |
| 17 | Like the previous speakers I greatly welcome the concessions er proposed by the Government er in the police aspect of the Bill , although I c ca n't refrain from commenting that I simply can not understand why they were surprised at the reaction to their original proposal , given what had already been said in this House and by everybody that they consulted , but welcome though these concessions are , er I myself find them falling short of the ideal in three respects . |
| 18 | Mr Gandhi 's murder came in the middle of a general-election campaign that had already been marred by more killing , intimidation and vote-grabbing than India had seen in any of its nine previous elections . |
| 19 | Certainly Artai would consider no one who had already been married to another , whether she had children or not . |
| 20 | After 87 minutes Luton 's woe was complete as Sharp headed in a cross from Bernard , who had just been denied by another splendid stop from Chamberlain . |
| 21 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 22 | He had always been involved to some extent , but when an old villager came to him and said , ‘ You ca n't let this thing die , your father was a polemaster and we look to you to see this thing does n't stop ’ , he could n't resist the challenge . |
| 23 | There were notices in Enderley Park warning strangers that the woods were private , but the villagers had always been allowed over all the estate . |
| 24 | The surveyors for the new tunnel reckoned that no tunnel except Brindley 's before it had ever been driven through such hard rock . |
| 25 | They told me that no one had ever been hurt like this ; but was n't it only a question of time ? |
| 26 | They somehow managed to persuade the owners , apparently it was and it was and nobody else had ever been allowed in this place not even erm historians who write about famous buildings , even they had been refused access ! |
| 27 | Yet these farmers had usually been placed in this situation because there was no one else willing to take on the task . |
| 28 | He could get items that had once been owned by this author or that author , and there was a market for these , particularly for letters . |
| 29 | My friend , however , was adamant that we had both been abused in some way , though not sexually , which was my understanding of abuse . |
| 30 | John Wesley and his close associate John Berridge ( 1716–93 ) , the Rector of Everton , had both been addicted to this practice ; both had used it to obtain an answer at a particular time to the knotty question whether to get married . |