Example sentences of "been [verb] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been stopped and killed while cycling home from Byss to Hilderbridge late on the previous night . |
| 2 | In her essay ‘ Sculpture in the Expanded Field ’ , 5 art historian Rosalind Krauss explored ideas about categories in ways that might be useful to this discussion about textiles : ‘ over the last 10 years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture : narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends , large photographs documenting country hikes … categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity , and display of the way in which a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything ’ . |
| 3 | Every word seemed to have been crafted and polished before it was allowed to escape through her discriminating lips . |
| 4 | The taxing code works without difficulty and the trustees would be assessed jointly — Lord Keith in Dawson v IRC referred to the fact that if all the trustees " had been resident in the United Kingdom application of the enactment would have been such that the income would have been treated as arising or accruing to all three , and all three would have been jointly assessable to tax " . |
| 5 | WordPerfect 's DOS based DrawPerfect presentation and graphics program has been redesigned and renamed as WordPerfect Presentations 2.0 for DOS and will be available soon . |
| 6 | There are so many periods during which such plateaus could have been formed and dissected that , in the absence of geological evidence in the form of outliers , it is not surprising that theories of origin have varied widely . |
| 7 | It is envisaged that these arrangements shall remain in force until initial expressions of interest have been received and analysed and a decision taken regarding the handling of the next stage of the formal sale process . |
| 8 | Since the act was passed in 1973 some 750 domestic species have been listed as threatened or endangered , but the time between the filing of a petition for a listing and a government decision has lengthened from two to three years . |
| 9 | Reg and I were most vitriolic about the risk to which we had been exposed and hoped that the Germans would be just as inefficient . ’ |
| 10 | When I first began the work that I am doing now , I decided to keep an open mind about the topic ; but , as time has progressed , I have been able to record details of fact , time and place given to me by my patients which have later been checked and confirmed and found to be wholly accurate . |
| 11 | It is issued to passengers whose flights have been cancelled or delayed and is redeemable by the airlines at face value . |
| 12 | was delighted to tell you that we have already received our first nomination for this position in 1992. has been nominated and seconded and , as she is not a current elected member of the Executive Committee , it has been decided to invite her to the remaining Executive meetings as an observer so that she gets used to how the Society functions . |
| 13 | no more than the embodiment of administrative arrangements which would give order to a confused system and some of which had been recommended and accepted as desirable during the previous two decades . |
| 14 | Earlier this year , however , the state minister for primary industries , Dr Kang Yaik , had been reported as saying that there had been a " phenomenal " increase in production and that there was no need to for reductions because " exploitation is carried out very properly on a sustainable yield basis " . |
| 15 | Owners has been reported as estimating that the benefits of the tie-up with Thomas Cook will be worth £20 million over the next two years . |
| 16 | However , the purchaser should ensure that this only applies to obligations to the extent that they have been disclosed and ensure that it will not be required to perform the obligations if such vicarious performance would be a breach of the relevant contract ( see clause 8.2(b) of the standard sale agreement — Appendix III ) . |
| 17 | Section 6 has already been considered and applies where the buyer 's claim is based upon a breach by the seller of the terms implied by sections 12 to 15 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 18 | The human enzyme has now been purified and characterised and its properties suggest that , at the high ethanol concentrations in the stomach after drinking , s-ADH is probably the ADH form with the largest contribution to gastric alcohol metabolism . |
| 19 | Similarly children have been spaced or limited when required by a variety of means ( e.g. abstinence after the birth of a child , or delaying the age for cohabitation ) . |
| 20 | Ethics have been downgraded or diluted or made to fit into narrow understandings . |
| 21 | The war had started again , but would n't it be wonderful , Jane thought , if during those brief moments of stillness , no one had been wounded or blinded or burned . |
| 22 | At a Conservative party meeting on 28 August , Amery noted that Horne ‘ on the whole agrees with me that we have got into a considerable mess and that the great thing is to extricate our people as soon as possible , ’ while Hailsham in his speech ‘ supported entirely what had been done but trusted that it would not last longer than two months — whereat loud cheers ’ . |
| 23 | I think the analysis has been done and done and done again . |
| 24 | The 1966 inquiry plodded its way through an incredible number of excuses as to why Blake had not also been transferred and concluded that if Blake had been moved , and the child murderer left at Wormwood Scrubs had then escaped ( rather than Blake ) , there would have been great public criticism . |
| 25 | Had they been noticed and noted as they drove through the village of Nunes ? |
| 26 | And yet between these two , from what has been said and written and recollected by both , an intense and governing bond grew up unlikely though it had at first seemed . |
| 27 | Much has been said and written as to how exactly the miracle is performed , but it is widely agreed that a relatively stable group of large general electronics companies in Japan did succeed in the 1970S and 1980S in being continuously innovative in terms of products and markets . |
| 28 | It seems , on looking back , one day I was outside and then the next day I was in , as if I 'd had nothing to do with it : I had been pushed or drawn or whatever you like . |
| 29 | At the end of the 11th round on Aug. 7 , Burt admitted that " no major achievements ' had been made but claimed that there had been " solid progress ' on all issues except those relating to space weapons on which the sides remained " too far apart " . |
| 30 | It reminds us of the adaptability of old people about which earlier comment has been made and suggests that the rigid divisions between the sexes in tending roles , although still powerful , may not be so impermeable as they sometimes appear . |