Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] both [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day . |
| 2 | A preliminary account of events up to the mid-1970s has already been given for both locales , which will stand as an account for Cramlington but some elaboration is necessary for North Shields . |
| 3 | It was a help to us because all other traffic had been halted in both directions and we were able to race along on the wrong side of the road . |
| 4 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 5 | These camps have been attacked by both government forces and the SNM , with at least 241 refugees killed . |
| 6 | Despite the assassination of one of the leading co-signatories , Egyptian President Sadat , and the death of the other , Israeli Prime Minister Begin , the Camp David Accords have been respected by both sides ever since their signing in 1979 . |
| 7 | Shelling had been reported on both sides in early June and Azerbaijan claimed numerous Armenian attacks on Nakhichevan and the border regions . |
| 8 | A range of special events , climaxing in a series of Grand Locomotive Cavalcades on the West Somerset Railway , have been organised by both railways to mark the 150 year connection of Taunton the national railway network . |
| 9 | I endorse everything that has been said from both sides of the House in support and admiration of him and of the courage and fortitude that he and his family have displayed . |
| 10 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 11 | After the glue has been applied to both edges of each segment and they are assembled , the banding clamp is dropped down over the assembly and tightened until the joints close up tightly . |
| 12 | In all , 61 respondents were eventually contacted and interviewed , 28 were Detoxification Unit patients and 39 were Drugs Council clients , six individuals having been selected by both samples . |
| 13 | It then transpired that a date , April 15 , 1991 , had been accepted by both sides , but that the MPLA delegation was objecting to UNITA 's insistence on adding the condition that April 15 , 1992 , be accepted as a firm date for multiparty general elections . |
| 14 | View the directory to verify that the file has been saved under both filenames ( see Task 6 ) |
| 15 | As it happened , he had been shot through both legs a few months before . |
| 16 | Sovetskaya Rossiya , ten days later , acknowledged that publication of the letter had been inopportune ; this could not disguise the fact that there were profound differences in approach at leading levels of the party , which had been reflected in both sides of the exchange . |
| 17 | A contract ends by performance when the terms of the contract have been performed by both parties , i.e. the hotelier has supplied the accommodation contracted for and the guest has paid the contract price for the accommodation services rendered . |
| 18 | There were one or two guests that had been invited to both Breasbrough parties . |
| 19 | The debate has been characterised by deep-seated differences of opinion , but it has been recognised on both sides of the House that the British coal industry faces formidable challenges . |
| 20 | Football has always been played at both ends , a fact made significant by Robson 's assertion that England were forced to fight a rearguard action in Chorzow . |
| 21 | There , as if a curtain had been raised on both sides of the river , suddenly were campsites , fishing and bathing . |
| 22 | Assault charges have been laid in both cases . |
| 23 | Oil has been found under both lakes , for example , and at least one company would like to drill for it . |
| 24 | A. fragilis has been found on both sides of the Atlantic : in the west it has been recorded off Martha 's Vineyard north to the Davis Strait and W. Greenland at depths of 430–2640 m ; in the eastern side it has been recorded from the Faeroe Channel in 750 m . |
| 25 | A sequence identity of about 80 % has been found between both introns in the secondary structure core ( Fig. 4a ) . |
| 26 | China and Taiwan claimed to have ended the trade in rhino and tiger products earlier this year , but stockpiles have since been found in both countries . |
| 27 | They have been supported by both sides of the House for many years . |
| 28 | Initially few believed that the favourite would lose the race , for the scrimmaging had clearly been caused by both parties , and odds of 4–1 were laid against the outsider getting the race . |
| 29 | Legal and quasi-legal moves are made when things have gone wrong , where expectations have not been fulfilled on both sides , and often where students have not played the compliant role expected of them . |
| 30 | In Britain , for example , the evolving structure of the financial markets has been characterised by both processes of deregulation and reregulation : the former , in that barriers which impede competition and choice have been discarded ; and the latter , in the sense that new regulatory measures have been adopted to cater for problems arising from structural changes . |