Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A safety valve releases any excess pressure once the air chamber has been filled to capacity . |
| 2 | It was the best going I could hope to see , but just beyond that wall of water , minutes away , the ground became lacerated with gulleys , as if a maze of streams had scored the ground and had been filled with sand . |
| 3 | Like most people who knew Joyce well , she had been filled with trepidation at the prospect of seeing someone trying on Joyce 's inimitable footwear . |
| 4 | The gaps between the walls of the coral skeleton have been filled with calcite , showing up as the lighter colours of the sections . |
| 5 | Once he and his henchman had been obliged to leave the wrecked apartment on the avenue Foch , he had been filled with apprehension at having to report his failure direct to Teheran . |
| 6 | The empty chambers are usually supposed to have been filled with gas , which help to give the animal buoyancy , and via the siphuncle the animal can vary its buoyancy to control its position in the water column . |
| 7 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 8 | The wadi would rarely have been filled with water , but deep down , the soil was moist , and trees were able to drink from its reserve . |
| 9 | His eyes , which , moments earlier , had been filled with fear and horror , were now clear , almost calm . |
| 10 | The people behind the BBC soap opera Eldorado had been filled with fear and trepidation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The gap left by the withdrawal of the worst examples has been filled with Class 312s , and ex-London Midland 310s . |
| 13 | The mandatory field listed has not been filled with information . |
| 14 | The 40ft long deep crack in the wall of Pershore Abbey 's south transept can still be clearly seen , although it 's now been filled with cement . |
| 15 | True , at the start he had been filled with remorse . |
| 16 | She had once embraced the world with her enthusiasm , laughed at life , had been filled with compassion for those less fortunate , and what was she now ? |
| 17 | At one time , the space between the timbers would have been filled with mud and straw . |
| 18 | Many were guessing that it had been filled with pepper or castor-oil or some other foul-tasting substance that would make the boy violently sick . |
| 19 | Many people grow up frightened of what may come after this life because their minds have been filled since childhood with ideas of hell and damnation , judgment and punishment . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It 's been weeping at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 23 | Here the vapors above heated Na 3 PO 4 have been co-condensed with argon . |
| 24 | The skeleton , that of a woman in her twenties , appears to have been hidden in woodland near Chewton Mendip , Somerset , for years . |
| 25 | The man picked up a small portmanteau that had been hidden in shadow by the rail , and with one last sweeping look across the quay , climbed on to the gangplank . |
| 26 | There were , there are : they have simply been hidden from history . |
| 27 | For Piaget , this indicates that the infant still thinks in terms of ‘ making ’ or ‘ materialising ’ objects through action , rather than ‘ discovering ’ objects which have simply been hidden from view . |
| 28 | DSC Communications Corp , Dallas has seen off a shareholder suit brought against the company and some of its officers in 1991 over the problems some of the Baby Bells had with the software for the MegaHub Signal Transfer Point : the suit has been dismissed without prejudice and the motion to certify class action status for it has been declared moot . |
| 29 | Less ambitiously , you might ask your employer to agree to repatriate you , together with your family and possessions , free of charge , if your job ends prematurely for any reason , except perhaps if you have been dismissed for misconduct . |
| 30 | On receipt of the reply from the employer it was stated that Mr. Docherty had been dismissed for misconduct . |