Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and MOS equipment , which again , we we 've b successfully been doing over the last two or three years . |
| 2 | Although the positioning of players seems wrong and choice of instruments has presumably been dictated by the need for variety in a tiny space ( the original is quite small ) much remains plausible . |
| 3 | The plaintiffs contended that they had thereby been deprived of the opportunity to bid for H.F. Co. but pill J. rejected their claim because while the law certainly allowed a freedom to bid for property that was neither a ‘ business asset ’ of the plaintiffs ' nor a legal right which the law would protect . |
| 4 | Attention has quite justifiably been drawn to the fact that we have not had anything in the way of a Teachers ' Forum for some years . |
| 5 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 6 | According to the outgoing editor , Mr Peter Stanford , she also has glamour of a kind that has rarely been seen in the paper 's musty offices . |
| 7 | Just then my sister , who had secretly been listening outside the forge , called to Joe through one of the windows , ‘ You fool ! |
| 8 | Knuckle down to any jobs you 've been promising all and sundry to do , but have secretly been avoiding like the plague . |
| 9 | Now , all of those criticisms come about on the work that 's been done which has mostly been done on the recognition of characters and letters . |
| 10 | These have mostly been calculated from the speed and force needed to embed swords in wooden hulled ships and boats ; a speed of 57.6 miles per hour ( 92.7 kilometres per hour ) has been calculated from a penetration of 22 inches . |
| 11 | The data have mostly been provided by the organisations themselves . |
| 12 | Spoiled and wilful she might be at times , but the emotional distance between them caused by the difference in their ages and their forced separation in childhood had slowly been closing over the past two years . |
| 13 | The Society had eventually been eclipsed by the more active and famous Liberation Society . |
| 14 | Particularly important were his decision to tie Germany into the Atlantic Alliance externally and his demonstration that the ‘ social market economy ’ could work internally. : both policies had eventually been accepted by the SPD opposition , thus providing a fundamental consensus between the major parties regarding the shape of West Germany . |
| 15 | An additional £74,000 has since been transferred to the Trust , making a magnificent total of over £380,000 generated by the affinity scheme in only six months . |
| 16 | A huge area has since been cleared for the construction of flyovers , underpasses , multi-lane carriageways and slip roads , with forlorn office blocks and high rise flats standing around them , either waiting to be demolished or recently erected . |
| 17 | This has since been refined with the issue of the revised Capricode ( DHSS , 1986 ) manual in 1986 . |
| 18 | Today the garden is still there , although it has long since been absorbed into the sprawling outskirts of the town . |
| 19 | " No , I was not : I 'm not a member of the South Tipperary Brigade , but I heard the details from one of the lads there , and they 've since been confirmed by the Big Fellow himself . " |
| 20 | The point has since been confirmed by the House of Lords . |
| 21 | Although some progress has since been made by the meticulous work of the late Sir Ian Richmond and Roger Goodburn , it has been on too small a scale to support any attempt at a chronology of the history of the site . |
| 22 | Significant finds have since been made in the Urals and South Africa . |
| 23 | A President and a Council of Ministers were installed , but effective political power has since been exercised by the leadership of the sole legal political organization , the Lao People 's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) . |
| 24 | He was within 18 months of retirement and has since been elected to the UK Central Council for Nursing , the profession 's regulatory body . |
| 25 | Open Accounting was originally developed on Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 9000 range , but has since been implemented for the RS/6000 , Sequent Computer Systems Corp boxes and Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha running OSF/1 . |
| 26 | Some of the report 's recommendations have since been implemented by the Hong Kong authorities but AI continues to call for each asylum-seeker to receive legal advice at all stages of the process and to receive an oral hearing when appealing against refusal of refugee status . |
| 27 | A strong lobby within the Labour Party was urging more open government and greater access to official information on the lines of the Freedom of Information Act which has since been implemented in the United States . |
| 28 | Those directors have since been ousted from the board . |
| 29 | This has since been employed in the wide variety of commercial designs that have arrived following the introduction of the Hawaiian ; but for a simple and long-standing development one need look no further than Top of The Line 's own ‘ Spin-Off ’ . |
| 30 | A wide variety of other commercial and industrial organisations has since been attracted to the country , not least because of its central location and excellent transport links with the rest of the country . |