Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it had been built in one go , ’ he claimed , demonstrating with a model and bucket of clay , ‘ it would have fallen over . ’ |
| 2 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 3 | Gerald Ronson , the chief executive of the Heron Corporation , a privately owned property and petrol retailing company , had been convicted on one conspiracy charge , two false accounting charges and one theft charge , and was sentenced to one year 's imprisonment as well as being fined £5,000,000 — the largest fine ever imposed by an English court . |
| 4 | Usually on a Friday afternoon I would retreat from the busy main office to my own private one which had been constructed in one corner of the large open room . |
| 5 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 6 | The promises to cut taxes had been brushed to one side , but it was unlikely that the government would wish to fight the next election against a background of undertakings that would entail their actually being increased . |
| 7 | A set of old , wooden steps had been cut into one side . |
| 8 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 9 | The skin on her face had been scraped from one cheekbone . |
| 10 | The delay had been caused by one set of papers going temporarily astray in the post . |
| 11 | The carts had been moved to one side , and now slaves were attaching torches to the arched wooden frames . |
| 12 | To add a bit of spice to the proceedings a sketchy transition had been tacked on one end of the ramp and that was the main focus of attention , especially in the grown-ups group . |
| 13 | Favoured with the inside story of the Fawaz Younis kidnapping and other government ‘ exclusives ’ , Emerson 's special relationship with Federal law-enforcement agencies was again on display when he quoted unnamed Washington sources to the effect that allegations of DEA involvement in the Lockerbie disaster had been traced to one Lester Knox Coleman , a ‘ disgruntled former DEA confidential informant who was terminated ’ . |
| 14 | She walked along some residential streets , and once observed with some fascination that a coal delivery had been deposited outside one house , and that the coal was brown ! |
| 15 | A Staff Committee had been mooted as one way of overcoming these difficulties . |
| 16 | Croatia was successfully regaining villages in Western Slavonia , it was reported on Dec. 20 , though 70 soldiers had been killed in one attempt to retake an area south of Zagreb . |
| 17 | Implicit within the ruling was the concept that once an abortion restriction had been upheld in one state , other states could implement it , an interpretation which effectively made it more difficult to challenge the imposition by individual states of restrictions as long as they were within the guidelines established by the Court 's ruling in June 1992 on Roe v. Wade [ see p. 38954 ] . |
| 18 | Once a retreat had been forced from one dump site , people believed they could do it again , and did . |
| 19 | She had been gesturing with one hand , to emphasize what she said . |
| 20 | Induction had been considered in one LEA , but a plan to use a local college 's advanced courses had not been implemented . |
| 21 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 22 | According to the Economist of July 27 , more than 1,000 alleged terrorists , mostly PPP activists , had been arrested in one district of Sind alone . |
| 23 | But now , their budding relationship had been reduced to one set of strangers discussing events with another . |
| 24 | Quite simply , when monkeys had been infected with one strain of yellow fever virus , they became transiently less easy to infect with another strain . |
| 25 | The patients had been on treatment for more than six months and although the type of NSAID varied , all had been established on one drug continuously for over six weeks . |
| 26 | There were even suggestions that some MPs had been taken to one side and the name of their girlfriends ‘ mentioned in a threatening manner ’ . |
| 27 | But a post-mortem examination showed the animal had been felled by one blow with a sledge-hammer or similar weapon . |
| 28 | Over 1,300 litres of highly alcoholic brew had been seized from one wing alone , in nine months . |
| 29 | I noticed that my case of drugs had been opened in one corner of the room , but still , it was a pitiful supply . |
| 30 | His father had been a prominent supporter of Edward II , and had been described by one chronicler as ‘ worse than Piers Gaveston ’ . |