Example sentences of "'s [been] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody 's been blown off the lighting rig — it 's OK , it 's only Richard Jobson 's brother — and the road crew are running around trying to get all the remaining equipment covered . |
| 2 | He 's been hiding under a under an agreement . |
| 3 | The danger of compromise of course is that you forget what 's been relinquished in the pursuit of what 's been achieved . |
| 4 | It 's been renovated over the last three months at Gloucestershire airport at Staverton near Gloucester , bound for a new life in Australia ferrying tourists on a two week tour of the outback . |
| 5 | Th the notes that 're attached are actually for er he 's been looking into the matter and basically it 's for information only really |
| 6 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 7 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 8 | I would n't think it 's been played in a cinema for years . |
| 9 | The only people you get on the flats , is the people who live on the flats , and the people who 's been invited into the flats . |
| 10 | I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food . |
| 11 | It 's been ruined with the , going through this . |
| 12 | This is the fourth year running she 's been asked by the Fellowship to create a cake in the shape of a folly — this one is of a pair of ornamental greenhouses nicknamed Tweedledum and Tweedledee . |
| 13 | A shot 's been fired during an armed robbery on a building society . |
| 14 | Take this with you , it 's been blessed by the Holy Father and it will do you good to use it . |
| 15 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 16 | A new system of fines has been introduced to courts in north Oxfordshire today , and it 's been viewed by the government with much interest . |
| 17 | I 'm not a frog that 's been kissed by a princess or whatever the fairy tale is . |
| 18 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 19 | terminal five does n't exist , it could be , that could be the case , research has to be done to see what er , yeah it could be that air , air line capacity and air line will drop as a result of er forward thinking rail scheme and there is evidence from the Rhone to Seine Rider Scheme that 's been undertaken by the French , German and Swiss governments of the a drop in demand for internal flights in those areas and because of the German equipment everything is there . |
| 20 | I say used to because he 's been struck off the medical register . |
| 21 | A very nice man who 's been struck off the register because he married a patient . |
| 22 | ‘ I told you , he 's been struck off the register . |
| 23 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |
| 24 | She 's been writing to the Health Minister , her local MP and Norma Major every day for 2 weeks and plans to continue . |
| 25 | It 's been caused by a delay in the operation to move a bridge crossing the M4 near the Severn estuary . |
| 26 | We can do the work by using photographs or drawings initially , but it 's often more exciting for the children to make the images themselves , perhaps later drawing what they have done in comic strip form , making their own comic based on the story that 's been created in the drama . |
| 27 | Can I just come back Chair , and I recognize obviously there is er , further work that 's going on with this and support that it does , but there is a case with the Parliamentary Ombudsman in discipline on this at the moment , so on the way in which it 's been handled by the Ministry . |
| 28 | indeed , he , he 's been revered as an intellectual player , erm , he , a thinking player , a shining example , and of course , that , that shows up in , in statistics when you read about what he 's achieved , and you think , you know , fifty six caps for Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 30 | Your flat 's been bugged for the past two months . ’ |