Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost certainly acquired by George III who had it bound in the present red morocco , gilt tooled binding which has been reproduced for the facsimile . |
| 2 | Parents and others may want to know what has been said about them during the course of an investigation and what information has been recorded about the child . |
| 3 | Police and ambulancemen who rushed to Birmingham 's New Street station expected to find she had been killed . |
| 4 | They 've been taken as typical of the senior editors and right across every function area is is covered by that and I 've got erm sample job descriptions for all the editorial levels and I can get them for any other secretarial levels or design and I can acquire those if you want to see what has been done in terms of trying to draw up a framework , you know , that kind of thing . |
| 5 | There has developed what has been described as a ‘ transition trap ’ , experienced by the generation which has cared for their elders in the traditional manner , but whose children have increasingly embraced Western lifestyles , and fail to fulfil customary expectations about caring for their parents . |
| 6 | This of course was also a severe blow to the emerging Labour Party and again the politicians had to try to restore what had been understood to be the position by passing the Trade Union Act 1913 . |
| 7 | As each layer of weathered rock , or soil , has formed it has been washed away , or eroded , by the rain water running off the surface in streams and rivers . |
| 8 | For the last six months the momentum has grown we 've been lectured to by ex-leaders of the Party by ex-parliamentary stars by Give-us-a-Meal Roy by budding prima donnas by the wagon-load , telling us how we should be gagged ! |
| 9 | As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament . |
| 10 | From what Silver has said they have been constantly upping their offer . |
| 11 | From what Silver has said they have been constantly upping their offer . |
| 12 | Bearing in mind that Mr Steel probably on his own admission has said he 's been a bit late out of the starting blocks in order to make his bid for a review of the allocations , er I mean how do you feel in response to that ? |
| 13 | He tried to deny he 'd been to the village at first , but when I told him I 'd watched his every move he said he 'd gone for toothpaste and avoided our constables because he did n't think they 'd allow him to go out . ’ |
| 14 | By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth . |
| 15 | A European commission has ruled he 'd been denied access to justice and refused freedom of speech which could open the way for the new hearing . |
| 16 | The technical nature of the work meant that they could not be expected to check it had been satisfactorily done . |
| 17 | It has meant we have been able to bring out this newsletter in double quick time . |
| 18 | A lot of ‘ behind the scenes ’ work has meant there has been little news to report for some months on the A1 Locomotive Trust 's plans to build Peppercorn Pacific No 60163 . |
| 19 | The way in which our hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) has conducted himself has been a model for all of us to follow , though we hope and pray that most of us will not have to undergo that sort of ordeal . |
| 20 | Kiam is keeping quiet , but Chase Manhattan has confirmed it has been retained and that selling Remington is one of several possibilities under review . |
| 21 | This use of money from social security system to fund institutional care has created what has been termed ‘ a perverse incentive ’ to institutional rather than community care . |
| 22 | Three days after the meeting with Mackie , Hoare Govett had rung to say there had been a very substantial sale of shares through Bell Lawrie White . |
| 23 | Waiting lists are longer than ever ; yet the day-surgery wards designed to cut them have been padlocked until the end of the financial year . |
| 24 | But from what Cliff had let slip he had been a poor father , an unpopular and unsuccessful schoolmaster yet with unreasonable ambitions for his only son . |
| 25 | I 've got to go listen it 's been lovely t talk to talk talking to you if you could pop in with a bottle of I wanted to try the new Beaujo If anybody 's got it and they come over , just ring the ring the door bell . |
| 26 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 27 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 28 | I 'd forgotten you 'd been in it . ’ |
| 29 | The first time he 'd seen her had been at Dave 's , and Dave had kept a possessive arm round her all evening , warning others away . |
| 30 | They 'd said he 'd been caught in a heliborne ambush and killed in hand to hand combat by a malai captain . |