Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I it 's not been examined sir , no . |
2 | I 've been stopped loads of times and had my bag searched |
3 | Very few pagan cemeteries were in use throughout the period , and those that were tend to be the large examples in eastern England which may have been centralised depositories , not belonging to individual settlements . |
4 | And once , as she filmed in WPc uniform in London 's Shepherd 's Bush market , a woman who had been mugged thought she was the real Bill and begged her for help . |
5 | Yet there has been sustained pressure from two political directions to do so . |
6 | ( 89 ) Not only a pin , even a dead mosquito , might have been heard drop . |
7 | One night Major , Deekie as he was known , came down to inspect and the young chappy who was on guard , he challenged him properly er before he allowed him to advance towards him but after he 'd advanced toward him and he 'd been recognized Major says is the rifle alright ? |
8 | The durability of the red metal had been recognized centuries before and copper and brass domestic ware was , as the 16th Century copper smelters were at pains to point out , far better than their brittle cast-iron counterparts . |
9 | The explosion detached the separate wings as if they had been plucked feathers . |
10 | England have usually been favoured opponents , and before the series ended he would have two more hundreds against them . |
11 | The levees of the former rivers through the Fens are now marked by raised banks , or roddons , which have been favoured settlement sites due to their comparative dryness . |
12 | Indeed Poly and Plugger as they have been christened look set to live long , happy and fruitful lives . |
13 | He had been christened Ferdinand : Ferdinand Skaller . |
14 | She had been christened Nicandra on the insistence of her father who , in his luckier years , had bred and trained and ridden an outstanding winner of that name . |
15 | B-17F-30-VE 42 — 5897 had been christened Roundtrip Jack and wore an appropriate Jackass caricature with a golden tooth . |
16 | N5520 , which has irrecoverably been christened Faith , was one of four Gladiators transferred from the Flight to 261 Squadron 's care at Luqa in September 1940 . |
17 | But as soon as the n the kid Nicky hits teenage years then he wants to be called Nick , whereas if the girl 's been christened Nicola and she 's called Nicky through her childhood , when she hits teens she 's still called Nicky . |
18 | He may have been christened Henry but he 'll certainly be known as ‘ Hairy ’ . |
19 | Two of the new babies in the ward had been christened Festival . |
20 | In homogenates from coeliac disease patients who had not been treated peptide concentrations of 10–25 µg/ml failed to increase adenylate cyclase activity consistently , whereas concentrations of 50–200 µg/ml all stimulated the enzyme to the same degree ( Figure ) . |
21 | Certainly some of the earlier building activity may have been misplaced effort . |
22 | If you do want to only mix flowers by correct season , you will have to take care when combining large and little flowers , such as daffodils and snowdrops , as the size difference seems even more pronounced once the flowers have been pressed flat . |
23 | But Anthony Arnold , chairman of the Vale of Glamorgan Conservative Association , said the visit by the Central Office agent had been arranged weeks in advance . |
24 | When asked how his release had been arranged Jacobsen and Waite both charged reporters with being irresponsible and endangering the lives of the remaining hostages . |
25 | He flew to Holyhead in a helicopter from the Queen 's flight and then on to Anglesey for a series of visits which had been arranged months in advance . |
26 | Birds of prey have been registered nose-diving at speeds of up to 1 l 0 miles an hour . |
27 | The total area of the site which has been developed runs to about 60,000 sq ft . |
28 | The first of a new family of drugs based on the leech has been developed thanks to a key piece of understanding provided by Huber 's team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany . |
29 | As no formula for capitation funding had been developed fundholders were given budgets on a historical basis . |
30 | If we look at rule six , and we 've all been given rulebooks , if people have brought them with us , what we have to do is bend that rule so that it applies to branches , not members . |