Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [prep] other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexei had been listening for other footsteps coming along the bridge . |
| 2 | Er my job was to er obtain intelligence on er active , known criminals and also to develop intelligence that had been obtained by other officers . |
| 3 | The colon was not assessed in nine patients in whom the diagnosis of malignant disease elsewhere had been obtained by other tests . |
| 4 | The conversation had been unsettling in other ways . |
| 5 | Though the group 's branded business grew , the main problem was a 14 per cent drop in the sale of bulk whisky overseas , partly because the company had been undercut by other suppliers and also because the export market for bulk product cut its stocks in anticipation of price cuts . |
| 6 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 7 | In fact staff at Friern produced a lengthy critique of the RHA policy , while ‘ important reservations ’ had been expressed by other respondents . |
| 8 | The general inadequacy of services to meet the needs of the frail elderly , and the demented elderly in particular , had been indicated in other surveys . |
| 9 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 10 | Evaluating the scheme one year on , the programme of instruction was continuing and indeed , had been extended to other wards . |
| 11 | Believing still that the catastrophe had been caused by other people and the actions of other people , believing it as firmly as Kate believed that it had been caused by devils and Quentin that it was part of God 's mystery , Lavinia saw a spark in the gloom . |
| 12 | Recent research has shown that in such cases it is more likely that the animals and humans had been eaten by other predators , such as leopards an hyenas . |
| 13 | New energy needs had been met from other sources , as shown in the chart below . |
| 14 | Implied in this idea was the notion that war was not , as some would have argued , the main cause of social disharmony , but rather the chief means of attaining the restoration of an order which had been broken by other causes . |
| 15 | All performed creditably and indeed Patel was such a revelation that onlookers must have wondered why he had been languishing in other teams for so much of the season . |
| 16 | Fifteen years were to pass before I had a book published by Faber 's , but by then I had been launched by other publishing houses . |
| 17 | Experiments with such regulations had been tried in other towns and cities during the 1980s , but had met little success . |
| 18 | Instrument zu singen gesetzt ( Königsberg , 1638–50 ) which enjoyed enormous popularity ; by 1652 the first five Teile had reached their third or fourth editions and a number of separate songs had been republished in other people 's miscellanies . |
| 19 | Indeed , all three contenders for the leadership had been accused of such involvement at one point or another : Watanabe 's staff had been deeply implicated in the Recruit affair , and Mitsuzuka had been linked with other scandals involving illegal fund-raising activities for the LDP . |
| 20 | Many of the characters considered had been shown by other workers to be of selective importance in white clover or another species of Trifolium ( e.g. Cahn & Harper ( 1976b ) had presented evidence suggesting that sheep selected between leaf marks ; Dirzo & Harper ( 1982a ) and others have shown that slugs select between cyanogenic and acyanogenic forms ; Black ( 1960 ) had shown the selective value of long petioles ) . |
| 21 | The competition had been hijacked in other ways too . |
| 22 | The apothecary had lied and Lady Eleanor had been murdered by other means . |
| 23 | To find conditions leading to the formation of stable complexes we investigated whether the addition in the incubation mixture of the first two initiating NTPs relieved the heparin sensitivity , as it had been described for other promoters with similar characteristics ( 8 ) . |
| 24 | They also had control of the hospitals that had been provided under other statutes to treat the mentally ill , those with infectious diseases , tuberculosis and the mentally handicapped . |
| 25 | While some of the revision work will probably be piecemeal , e.g. correcting definitions to which the editor 's attention had been drawn by other scholars or informants , quite a lot of it would be of the ‘ blanket ’ variety . |
| 26 | Following in the footsteps of an earlier Departmental Committee , the Advisory Council painstakingly analysed the subsequent criminal careers of men who had been flogged , comparing them with those who had been subjected to other forms of penalty . |
| 27 | Kendall never claimed , of course , that this method could ever be accurate enough to pinpoint where the archaeologist should sink his spade , but rather that it could help in choosing between a number of possible locations to which the search had been restricted on other grounds . |
| 28 | Captain Green , 41 , had been standing with other men from the Royal Artillery 's 32nd Heavy Regiment after a training exercise in Alberta , Canada , when he was hit . |
| 29 | His father Phillip , of Erndhura , Farnascullogue , Lisnaskea , said he had been told by other students that lifts frequently broke down and students often clambered out of them . |
| 30 | Mr Starr said that had been weighed against other needs apparent in the case . |