Example sentences of "have just [been] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In this case the unnatural occurrence is that my black-hearted old dad has just been striped by the Lloyds Bank Access card mafia , and is taking it quietly . |
2 | It is therefore simplest to interpret these results in terms of an inability to remember that food has just been obtained from a particular arm . |
3 | There is a hollow boom of surf as if some massive object has just been chucked into the sea . |
4 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
5 | Erm it comes back to the point which has just been made about the er , about the erm why have this system of election by thirds and almost backfired on , on , on , on the leader of the council yeah ? |
6 | Well , that very technological breakthrough has just been made by a British company . |
7 | From the children 's point of view , what they really want to get out of a project is precisely the content which , for teachers , has just been relegated to a secondary position . |
8 | While this has just been confirmed for the next 10 years , until recently there was some doubt as to whether it would be renewed . |
9 | Ms Achtenberg is an avowed lesbian who has just been confirmed as an assistant secretary in the department of Housing and Urban Development . |
10 | The first global report on air and water pollution , food contamination and their effects on health has just been prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme . |
11 | Though the apolitical villain was fairly quickly apprehended , Churchill 's portrait has just been discovered in a police raid on a suspected handler . |
12 | This book is also different to ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ because there are no racist scenes , only prejudice towards Imamu from both the Police and in some cases the Aimsleys , when their daughter goes missing and they think that because he is a street boy who comes from Harlem , a lower class area than Brooklyn and that he has just been acquitted on a murder rap , he 's got something to do with Perk 's disappearance . |
13 | In the General Prologue the Reeve is thus described : and : and the Host responds to the serious reflections of the Reeve 's Prologue accordingly : But the Host too has appropriated a character , as judge and ruler of the tale-telling game , that takes him beyond the predictable attributes of his normal station in life : while in the fiction of the Tales , the Miller has just been attributed with the strengths of the court poet Chaucer as a narrator . |
14 | Man Of Ross has just been chosen as a demonstration farm by an organization called LEAF … |
15 | The hon. Gentleman has just been reminded of the shabby teachers ' pay record of the Labour Government whom he supported some years ago — It was his Government then , although their successors may not be represented on the Front Bench in quite the way that the hon. Gentleman would wish . |
16 | Contraceptives can not be sold freely — Ireland 's Family Planning Association has just been fined in the courts for putting condoms on sale in a Dublin record store — and divorce is illegal . |
17 | His graphic story has just been published in the Darlington Postgraduate Journal , edited by doctors at Darlington Memorial Hospital where he was treated after his second stroke . |
18 | A survey * of studies of costs has just been published by the OECD 's general economics division ( which shows how mainstream economists are being drawn into what was once a green ghetto ) . |
19 | Research in assessment IX has just been published by the Assessment Group of the Education Division . |
20 | This family presents an obvious target for antisense attack , and a protocol to use a retroviral delivery system for antisense treatment in adenocarcinoma of the lung has just been approved in the United States . |
21 | No Man 's stunning version of ‘ Colours ’ has just been released as a single on Probe Plus . |
22 | No Man 's stunning version of ‘ Colours ’ has just been released as a single on Probe Plus . |
23 | The report , originally prepared last year by the government 's National Audit Office as a quick swot of the services offered by London 's top galleries and museums , has just been circulated as a final draft ; it is due for submission to Parliament shortly . |
24 | Llangoed Castle , in Wales , which the owner had been determined to demolish , has just been transformed into a hotel by Sir Bernard Ashley , husband of Laura . |
25 | Keith Fuller has just been picked by the News of the World from 1,000 entries as THE British answer to the new President . |
26 | Papillon has just been recaptured for the fourth time . |
27 | He has just been pulverized by a being from the other side of the galaxy and what does he do ? |
28 | Buckingham Palace has just been opened to the public , and several hundred people , ready to fork out the £8 ( $12.50 ) admission charge , wait patiently . |
29 | I frowned like someone who has just been put on the spot and is afraid of making a fool of himself . |
30 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |