Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [prep] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is doubtful whether any other golf course , with the exception of St Andrews , has been written about so much , photographed so lavishly and expanded upon so frequently . |
| 2 | The fee has been cut by approximately half , from £20,000 to £10,000 . |
| 3 | Thereafter , in 1970 , 74 and 79 , the governing party has been rejected without however any great surge of popular support for the alternative party , at least by the standards of earlier years . |
| 4 | People will not give up lightly what they have gained under this Government , and they will not easily embrace a creed that has been rejected by so many nations in recent years . |
| 5 | The poll tax ( a.k.a. the community charge ) has been discredited by almost all politicians , even Darlington 's Conservative MP Michael Fallon , but for administrative and bureaucratic reasons it lumbers into its third year this April . |
| 6 | Utility player John Moore has been hit by yet another injury blow . |
| 7 | But the start of the scheme has been delayed until later this year . |
| 8 | A premise is that the infant has been exposed to virtually all possible feelings by the time he or she goes to school . |
| 9 | The rules are still valid and the libretto of any ballet neglecting them often fails to hold the attention of its audience because the content has been weakened by too many irrelevances . |
| 10 | Local government in Northern Ireland has been stripped of almost all its significant powers . |
| 11 | In many cases , it may be a matter of giving ground , out of kindness and consideration for the older person , who has been stripped of so much already . |
| 12 | The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps . |
| 13 | Although she could not resist adopting a dancer 's grace for the performance , the mocking allusion to the demeaning domestication of women was clear enough , though this theme has been treated with far more wit and poignant effect by other artists ( notably Bobby Baker ) . |
| 14 | The Rovertrail has been invented for just that situation ( and many others , of course . ) |
| 15 | It may be that it 's time to look again , even though this new rule has been enforced for only these elections , at this particular method of positive discrimination . |
| 16 | My moral sense has been dulled by too many years here . |
| 17 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 18 | Indeed , much natural language research has been addressed to precisely this problem . |
| 19 | A highly-sensitive questionnaire has been circulated to almost all members of the southern defence forces . |
| 20 | Research in Scottish geology has been carried out in 21 institutions , but has been concentrated in rather fewer . |
| 21 | Now that electricity has been brought to nearly all the villages , the inhabitants can cluster around a television set and see how much better things are in Bangkok . |
| 22 | However , this substance has been found in so many different tissues of such a wide variety of animals , that there is now some doubt about its role and the quest for a natural magnetic detector is continuing . |
| 23 | But old habits die hard , especially those fashioned in the Pontypool front row , and the easy life has been postponed for yet another season . |
| 24 | Recent reports show that funding for training within County Durham has been reduced by as much as 20pc . |
| 25 | you know , if if he 'd been left to probably some other doctor he probably would have said , oh you know , you can just have a catheter or something . |
| 26 | Never could they have been visited by so many young girls . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 29 | The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that stable workers could have been exposed to as much as 190 times the acceptable daily intake . |
| 30 | As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump . |