Example sentences of "[v-ing] been [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goodwill had been encouraged by reciprocal representation on validation visits , but there was still strong opposition when Kerr accepted an invitation to meet the NCDAD at its premises at Park Crescent — having been warned by some polytechnic directors that he was going into the lion 's den and would be devoured . |
| 2 | To prove contrary evidence it was necessary to have either positive proof that the document was returned to the sender or , if sent by recorded delivery , that there was no acknowledgement of receipt , or if there was evidence of the document having been received by some person , there was proof that the person was not the intended recipient and that he had not brought the document to the notice of the person required to be served . |
| 3 | We can now turn right to the other end of the book , where there should be another paste-down and free endpaper , though in earlier books the latter will often be missing , having been appropriated by some seventeenth or eighteenth century housewife as a shopping list or for copying a cooking recipe . |
| 4 | After four attempts to elect a Chair of the Ukrainian Council of Ministers , the outgoing holder of the post , Vitaly Masol , was re-elected on June 28 , despite having been blamed by some deputies during the election debate for the Ukraine 's current economic problems . |
| 5 | The main structural proteins of the insect cuticle are sometimes known collectively as arthropodin though they are a complex mixture , more than a dozen components having been identified in some insects by amino-acid analyses , electrophoresis and serological techniques ( Fox and Mills , 1969 ; Hackman and Goldberg , 1971 ) . |