Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scratches had been hidden and it now shone like new . |
| 2 | A great deal of the stepping seems to have been improvised but it also contained the remnants of old dances . |
| 3 | More than the 21 required signatories have already been gathered and it will be presented to Forest chairman Fred Reacher . |
| 4 | Had it not been realised that it was the work of a humble man , this poem would be thought a sacrilege and an example of striking pride and arrogance , but instead it is an invitation to extreme exaltation of spirit for it comes from a man who has submerged his ego in the All . |
| 5 | However its influence to date has been limited as it covers perhaps too broad an area . |
| 6 | We can not say what the outcome of a meeting of the Defence Committee might have been , or whether the course of events would have been altered if it had met in September 1981 ; but , in our view , it could have been advantageous , and fully in line with Whitehall practice , for Ministers to have reviewed collectively at that time , or in the months immediately ahead , the current negotiating position ; the implications of the conflict between the attitudes of the Islanders and the aims of the Junta ; and the longer-term policy options in relation to the dispute . |
| 7 | It 's been done up you see , it 's been altered and it 's now the community centre they call it is it not Nana ? |
| 8 | And er some of the schemes have been criticized but it was a blessing in a way that we got them done when we did and er we were able to house a lot of people out there and release ground in the centre of the town to be redeveloped and er brought up to modern standards . |
| 9 | If the work is commissioned by a PR consultant , the — copyright is his unless it has been arranged that it should be assigned to the client . |
| 10 | A man stays in line because he has been taught that it is wrong not to . |
| 11 | She 'd been taught that it paid to be passive . |
| 12 | Brownlow felt he 'd been rebuked and it irritated him . |
| 13 | I should have been consulted because it affected me too , she thought , and wrote a terse letter to him . |
| 14 | Here , the failure to consult was material because if the community health council had been consulted when it should have been in May , 1992 , it might have helped to ensure that the commitment to transfer the unit to the new hospital remained until a satisfactory new home for the unit could be found . |
| 15 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 16 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 17 | Notice had been received but it was after the deadline and therefore not valid . |
| 18 | All contributions towards the proceedings arising from the pre-congress conference on Chemistry and developing countries had been received and it was anticipated that these would be published through the Commonwealth Science Council in the near future . |
| 19 | The nature of the obligation is simply that of an obligation to repay money which has been received and it is neither necessary nor logical , simply because the conditions of repayment relate to the performance of covenants in a lease , that the transfer of the reversion should create in the transferee an additional and co-extensive obligation to pay money which he has never received and in which he never had any interest or that the assignment of the term should vest in the assignee the right to receive a sum which he has never paid … |
| 20 | Standish examines the first two difficulties ; the third is not surprising given Neptune 's long orbital period , 165 years ( so that not even one orbit has been completed since it was discovered ) . |
| 21 | Objective 1 of Part 4 has been completed and it is clear who ‘ owns ’ the problem . |
| 22 | There had been a tremendous hash made of one contract by her predecessor , it was true , but that had all but been completed when it had landed on her desk , so there was no way she could be held to account for it . |
| 23 | That problem has n't been solved and it 's difficult to understand . |
| 24 | The importance of the Cycladic islands had been exaggerated because it was alleged that there were Cycladic influences in the Balkans and in Italy and indeed Sicily , and in Iberia . |
| 25 | The mosaic from Roxby , Lincs. , ( Fowler 1818 , no. 3 ) , has not been included as it shows more certain affinities with pavements in southern Lincolnshire and the area around Water Newton , Cambs. , ( Smith 1969 , 108 ) . |
| 26 | Traditional teaching of English literature has been attacked because it creates in the pupil a mood of passivity , an instinctive submission to authority . |
| 27 | It is essential once a feed has been dropped that it should not be reinstated in a moment of weakness . |
| 28 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 29 | A CONTROVERSIAL plan to charge foreign three-day-event riders a £500-a-season licence fee to compete in Britain has been dropped because it could run up against European regulations . |
| 30 | Synthesis of LTB 4 by gastric mucosal epithelial cells has been reported and it is possible that these are an important source of the increased concentrations we have seen in patients taking NSAIDs . |