Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |
| 2 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 3 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |
| 4 | She was beginning to attract attention in dramatic roles but had never been given such an opportunity for anguished emotion , and she rose to it whole-heartedly . |
| 5 | The arch of Porta Romana ai Bastioni , to give it its full title , was built in 1598 to commemorate Margherita of Austria leaving the city on her way to marry Philip III of Spain , although the ramparts into which it was fitted had been erected half a century before . |
| 6 | US negotiators had been seeking such an agreement since shortly after Endara 's government was installed following the overthrow of the Noriega regime by US military intervention in December 1989 . |
| 7 | Officials in the Department of the Environment , which have been advocating such a move for some time against the opposition of the Treasury , have indicated that the introduction of differential rates is still some way off , however . |
| 8 | However , the following month the Dalai Lama met with United States President Bush in Washington , although on previous visits to the USA he had not been granted such a meeting ; China made a strong protest to the USA . |
| 9 | I 've been waiting half an hour . |
| 10 | I 'd been leading such a rackety life — Edouard , you ca n't imagine . |
| 11 | We would n't have chosen to move back into town at this time , but having been offered such a good space , we did n't want to turn it down . |
| 12 | Better practice would have been to discharge such a patient on a Monday and monitor her progress daily , to forestall a weekend crisis . |
| 13 | We were in a small courtyard into which had been crammed half a dozen hutches and garden-shed-type constructions . |
| 14 | Latin American art has been undergoing such a review both from within Latin America itself and from elsewhere , with several exhibitions and books on the subject in the last few years in Europe and the US . |
| 15 | Siemens AG has been having such a tough time in the former Soviet Union with its nuclear safety and telecommunications projects that it has been cutting back and recalling expatriates early ( CI No 2,043 ) , but Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG does have some work . |
| 16 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 17 | The other reason for looking for an approximate solution is that once it has been found such an approximate solution can then be worked upon and modified to give a much better solution . |
| 18 | But he had been woken half an hour earlier . |
| 19 | The best , Polydor 's Lambada Brazil , consists almost exclusively of Brazilian , not French , lambada stars and includes a couple of tracks by the wonderful Margareth Menezes , who has been making such an impact performing with Byrne . |
| 20 | The project director , Marilyn Standley , commented : ‘ The building is being designed to reflect the personality and concerns of the company and its staff , and we are delighted at having been awarded such a high environmental score . ’ |
| 21 | In the hall hung the amputated blade of an oar : inscribed in gold lettering on its black scoop were the names of a college eight , each of whom had been awarded such a trophy in sun-ridden pre-war days ; the item seemed impossibly exotic . |
| 22 | Never before has a machine been allowed such a long and cosseted lead-time . |
| 23 | Christian leaders who had been contemplating such a move have been backing off . |
| 24 | All five hundred coolies from Number Three Village were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks ; silent and apprehensive , they were wondering why they had been roused half an hour earlier and why the burly , intimidating figure of the plantation director , Duclos , was waiting to address the massed roll call beneath the single lightpole in the barrack compound . |
| 25 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 26 | The Disability Alliance has been proposing such a scheme for nearly two decades . |