Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man had n't been stopped before and I was n't about to try it on . |
| 2 | there was no evidence of any physical injury having been sustained before death |
| 3 | Others had their cattle seized by Neville 's men until they paid extortionate fines , although their cases should have been heard before the king 's judges . |
| 4 | Sentences containing all four pieces of information from a set were most frequently identified as having been heard before even when they had not , suggesting that the information from a related set of sentences had been integrated into one complex whole which was closest in form to a four-idea sentence . |
| 5 | The solicitor acting for the College sought a review of the decision on the ground that no argument on the Rybak decision had been heard before the IT . |
| 6 | The abuses of the latifundia had been recognized before the systematic criticism of the later eighteenth century and the case against the great estate remained as the emotional drive behind all land reform . |
| 7 | It was obvious that the plane had been repainted before its journey and Whitlock suddenly wondered if it had been done to erase the memories of the previous regime . |
| 8 | Because of the arrow attack there had been uniformed patrols on the Barton estate … but they 'd been withdrawn before the chanting mob attacked |
| 9 | Has a cost/benefit analysis , in terms of time as well as financial costs , been undertaken before implementation of the scheme ? |
| 10 | In the absence of the Orkney guidelines , she asked to be told which guidelines had been used , and whether these had ever been placed before the Island 's Social Work Committee for their approval . |
| 11 | In the first group of lead actions the position is as follows : ( 1 ) there are a very large number of major points of law which have to be decided on the manifold issues which arise under the various heads of restitutionary claim ; ( 2 ) there appear to be no or no significant disputes on the common issues of fact affecting the swaps cases generally , and indeed those matters covered by an agreed general statement of fact which has been placed before the court ; ( 3 ) there are discrete factual issues arising in individual cases , eg. , on change of position , since individual local authorities dealt with the money received under swap transactions in several different ways , which are variously relied upon as furnishing a change of position defence . |
| 12 | Of all the opportunities that have been placed before dealers during the past year the one which has undoubtedly received most press coverage is desktop publishing . |
| 13 | All night he had laboured in prayer and watching , then rising and sitting in his chair , as it were made new for the occasion , which had been placed before the chimney in his parlour , and in the midst of his chaplains , servants and officers who were praying for him , he expired as if sleeping , and without a groan yielded up his spirit most purely to his Creator . " |
| 14 | The selection of a prospective parliamentary candidate shall not be regarded as completed until the name of the member selected has been placed before a meeting of the National Executive Committee , and his or her selection has been duly endorsed . |
| 15 | None of them had been treated before admission to hospital , and none had any other medical disorders . |
| 16 | 662 patients in whom inflammatory bowel disease had been diagnosed before 1979 , of whom 637 ( 96% ) provided adequate information . |
| 17 | One witness claimed a shotgun had been brandished before police arrived at the scene . |
| 18 | In 1714 more than a third of the debt was in the form of fixed-term annuities , most of which had been floated before 1710 and which cost an annual £800,000 to service . |
| 19 | We 're Group four looking at the er , the hotel complex which has been explained before hand . |
| 20 | Fourth plea , that the plaintiff 's marriage with Ellen Nicholl had been arranged before the alleged agreement without any request from the testator and that there was no consideration for the alleged agreement . |
| 21 | Zeppelin airships had been developed before the outbreak of war and , in 1915 , the enemy used them to carry out bombing raids on London ; also the German submarine ‘ U ’ boats sank a civilian ocean liner , named the Lusitania with the loss of 1,198 lives , including many citizens of the United States of America . |
| 22 | Perhaps part of the answer lies in the fact that much of the new technology which had been developed before and during the war had already been incorporated into the capital stock . |
| 23 | Pat shares some of the problems she has solved and tips she has been given before answering the questions raised at this month 's meeting . |
| 24 | 160 to the end of the second century , and it meant that these defences could not possibly have been erected before AD 160 . |
| 25 | 14–5–1844 " The Session considering that James Gibson , under process for the crime of fornication , ( with Ann Darroch ) , has submitted to the discipline of the Church , appeared publically and been rebuked before the congregation , and hoping from the professions he now makes , as well as the readiness with which he submitted to discipline , that he is penitent , do now absolve him from censure and admit him to the enjoyment of privileges . " |
| 26 | consumable goods which have been consumed before cancellation , |
| 27 | In Slovakia , Christian Democratic clubs have been formed before the establishment of a party , and it is expected that counterparts in Bohemia and Moravia will follow . |
| 28 | The exact way in which they had failed to comply with the regulations is unclear ; a representative of the Education Authority told me that the school has re-opened on a ‘ technicality ’ , because the School Council had not been consulted before the closure ; people in Village told me that the Education Authority had not consulted anyone in the community before-hand , a bigger breach of the regulations . |
| 29 | Councillors complained that the full council should have been consulted before planning permission was given . |
| 30 | ‘ They both insist that there was no way in which their hostess could have been poisoned before their very eyes — and both the parlourmaid and the cook swear that she did n't take anything afterwards . |