Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 2 | Page upon page has been filled with Cabinet splits , the Europe crisis , the economic crisis , the industrial and jobs crisis , the Mellor crisis … and a crisis of leadership . |
| 3 | Another key job , Features Editor — or Assistant Editor ( Features ) in NoS -speak — had been filled by Polly Pattullo , who had served more years than she cares to remember on the Observer colour supplement before wilting under its increasing consumer bias . |
| 4 | The gap has been filled by Bill Rear 's excellent volume . |
| 5 | The post , in the Lending Services Division , has been filled by Mrs Jill McBride , BA , ALA , who comes to NLS from East Lothian District Council 's library service where she was Bibliographic Services Librarian . |
| 6 | The new post of Customer Services Officer in Lending Services has been filled by Mrs Jill McBride . |
| 7 | The gap in services has been filled by child minders who at their best can offer a high quality of care with all the advantages of a domestic setting similar to the children 's own home , but because of the lack of resources , training and support for their work are often the last resort for parents . |
| 8 | Their positions have now been filled by Mr Namadra Singh and Mr Giljod Singh , neither of whom , surprisingly , are related to the chairman . |
| 9 | His role as director of Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems has been filled by Tom Jarosh , formerly vice president in the company 's General Sector Division . |
| 10 | While today 's soul singers tend to reflect the mores of a new black middle class , their erstwhile role — as an authentic voice or urban black experience — had been filled by rap artists . |
| 11 | For decades his complete diaries have been hidden in K-G-B files in Moscow — now they 're about to be serialised in the Sunday Times . |
| 12 | Zhang Taiheng , who had been dismissed by Yang Baibing as Chengdu MR commander in late 1991 . |
| 13 | A case could be made for such a ritual being enshrined in the legend of Lady Godiva of Coventry , riding through the city on a white horse ( fig. 13.1 ) , though this idea has been dismissed by Hilda Ellis Davison in her otherwise full and admirable account of the legend . |
| 14 | Particularly when it was discovered — as it would be — that she was the mother of a bastard child , the daughter of a man who had left Frizingley heavily in debt , and had already been dismissed by Miss Ernestine Baker for her loose behaviour in a public street . |
| 15 | N-E FEARS that tumbling property rents in London could lead companies to think again about relocating from the South-East have been dismissed by property agent Grimley JR Eve . |
| 16 | And now the production has been re-staged by Stephen Medcalf for the Glyndebourne tour with a new cast ( some of the occupants of minor roles in the festival have been promoted : Alison Hagley 's Barbarina is now Susanna ) , a different orchestra , the London Sinfonietta , and a new conductor , Sir Peter Maxwell Davies . |
| 17 | The estate 's legal battles have been waged by Gerard Basquiat , the artist 's father , and the attorney Michael Ward Stout . |
| 18 | AIRLINE boss Richard Branson is on the verge of victory against British Airways rival Lord King after claiming a ‘ dirty tricks ’ campaign had been waged against Virgin Atlantic . |
| 19 | The issue of interpretation arises again , because many systems considered have not been examined with fibre optics , through they have this potential . |
| 20 | The slow progress towards acceptance of television by the Commons has been examined by Dr Bob Franklin in previous articles in this journal . |
| 21 | This confusion has been examined by John Vasquez in a book entitled The Power of Power Politics , in which he claims that the Behaviouralists never really challenged the theoretical assumptions of Realism . |
| 22 | The catalyst for the rioting was the decision by an all-white jury to acquit four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) on charges arising from the beating of Rodney King , a motorist who had been stopped for traffic violations . |
| 23 | Walls and ceilings in the germination rooms and steeping areas have been clad with plastic panelling to facilitate cleaning . |
| 24 | The government of C. R. ( later Earl ) Attlee accepted the recommendations ; Turner 's second decade as director was devoted primarily to implementing them , recruiting and training young scholars , including many whose interest had been aroused during war service in Asia or Africa , and building up strong academic departments . |
| 25 | Their attention may have been aroused by Ted Parson 's cover story , every man going on beach reconnaissance having one carefully rehearsed — as Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott had rehearsed Roger Courtney off Rhodes : for the tenth time by one report ! |
| 26 | He found himself in a city in turmoil , where traditional values had been overturned by Maurice Johnston 's decision to dump Celtic for Rangers . |
| 27 | WOLVES winger Robbie Dennison has been recalled to Northern Ireland 's squad for the first time in a year . |
| 28 | The Caribbean continuum , as it has been theorised by De Camp , Alleyne and others , is dependent on the existence of social stratification which is directly reflected through language . |
| 29 | It is highly doubtful that any offshore centre could claim that it has never been tainted by drugs money . |
| 30 | The islands have never been joined to South America and because of their isolation they contain large numbers of endemic organisms . |