Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Staff Committee had been mooted as one way of overcoming these difficulties . |
| 2 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time . |
| 3 | Now it 's true that since the second world war all wars have been limited in one sense or another , but then comes the question , if you do , in fact , succeed in defining objectives er and de in defining the means to those objectives , how can you know in fact that you possess genuine capability without putting it to the test , without actually fighting the war and then finding that you can not win it ? |
| 4 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 5 | The role of subcontracting and the increasing rate of investment by large companies in their subsidiaries has already been highlighted as one factor involved in the resilience of the small firm sector . |
| 6 | As you will see the Q.T. days for the 1989/90 programme have been arranged with one day at the beginning of each term , as requested by you the teachers , and reflect the requests and feed-back given during the past year . |
| 7 | Their brand new Lifetex range has been formulated with one thing in mind — naturally beautiful hair . |
| 8 | He has been the most inspiring of any artist that I 've ever been exposed to one way or another . |
| 9 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 10 | But a post-mortem examination showed the animal had been felled by one blow with a sledge-hammer or similar weapon . |
| 11 | As many as 10,000 political prisoners were said to have been confined in one corner of the island . |
| 12 | Indeed , increased exchangeable sodium in diabetics has been reported by one group of research workers who also showed that diuretic therapy lowered blood pressure while reversing the 10 per cent increased exchangeable sodium to normal ( De Chatel et al , 1977 ; Weidmann et al , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | Erm , are now in the process of following up to see if who has made er the switch to the new regime , and I have been approached by one project leader who has two programmers who refused to change , and has asked for help . |
| 14 | Divorce of this kind was first introduced into English law by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 , and from then until 1969 it was based upon the doctrine that some matrimonial offence ( such as adultery or desertion ) must have been committed by one spouse before the other could obtain relief . |
| 15 | These people could have been addressed by one man who would have been heard comfortably . |
| 16 | A Medieval campanile has been added to one end of the Mausoleum and a Choir at the other . |
| 17 | An environmental health officer from Liverpool City Council visited the company 's bakery in Lorenzo Drive , West Derby , and found insects could get into the building through ‘ voids ’ around the pipework , and an insect screen had been nudged to one side . |
| 18 | ‘ Since the separation the princesses have been whisked from one holiday hotel to another and moved house . |
| 19 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 20 | Opportunity has now been presented for someone to take a sober look at her writings which have been collected into one volume recently by Liz Johnson and Cecily O'Neill ( 1983 ) . |
| 21 | He said the entrance should not have been in the centre , but a little door should have been built at one side . |
| 22 | Aesthetically positioned in small clusters , the lodges have been built with one aim in mind . |
| 23 | ‘ If it had been built in one go , ’ he claimed , demonstrating with a model and bucket of clay , ‘ it would have fallen over . ’ |
| 24 | The whole museum has been built by one man , our membership secretary , Philip Field , over a period of more than a decade . |
| 25 | This suggests that the whole tool-kit of genes evolved just once , and has since been transferred from one kind of prokaryote to another . |
| 26 | As suggested above , what Community law seems to require national courts positively to do is to identify an organisational function and then to ascertain whether control of that function has been transferred from one person to another in such a way that the function retains its operational structure . |
| 27 | The grey ovoid , some distance away , expanded and contracted in a movement which reminded Ace of nothing so much as chewing , although there was no way that she could see whereby the fruit could have been transmitted from one part of Legion to another . |
| 28 | In order to improve competitiveness Wimpey Minerals in the USA has now been rationalised into one operating company and the resulting increased efficiencies , together with production costs reductions being introduced , will begin to show in 1993 . |
| 29 | The most enduring damage done by the Spycatcher litigation to the rule against prior restraint was the emergence of a legal doctrine that once a secrecy injunction has been granted against one newspaper , every other section of the media becomes effectively bound by its terms , on pain of punishment for contempt : " The Guardian " ran a news story which briefly referred to certain allegations made by Peter Wright in " Spycatcher " . |
| 30 | But currency stabilisation has been pushed to one side for another reason as well . |