Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish Television script has been written by a former Daily Mirror editor , Mike Molloy , and a former People managing editor , Revel Barker . |
| 2 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 3 | In all of these case an alleged offence ensures mandatory and indeterminate hospitalisation despite the fact that no trial has taken place in the former category while no conviction has been recorded in the latter . |
| 4 | The same procedure has been extended to the former communist east . |
| 5 | The hit man has been called in a few times to finish off Jeffrey Probyn yet never once has he managed to carry out his murderous brief . |
| 6 | This means that your sum insured has been increased by the same percentage as the rise in the Building Housing Cost Index ( prepared by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ) in the twelve months before your renewal date . |
| 7 | Your sum insured has been increased by the same percentage as the rise in the Durable Household Goods Section of the Government 's General Index of Retail Prices in the twelve months before your renewal date . |
| 8 | The owner has been calling by every few days to check on progress , but now is in Barbados . |
| 9 | It has been argued by a former Chief Advisory Officer of the Nature Conservancy Council that the implications for wildlife conservation may be considerable . |
| 10 | It reveals all that has been said in the many policy launches and the speeches that have been made all over the country . |
| 11 | He also conceded that Unisys has been hit by the same technology shift with which IBM is having to come to terms . |
| 12 | Lithuania is dependent for its oil supplies on Russia but has been plunged into the same economic crisis as its neighbour by the collapse of the communist system . |
| 13 | Borrowing from overseas has been affected by the same set of factors . |
| 14 | Stone 1940 the stone has been extracted from the former ‘ ridden-holes ’ — opencast mining — by bulldozer . |
| 15 | Dating back to the 18th Century the main house has been converted from the former guest quarters . |
| 16 | To protect the spirit of demilitarisation , a convention has been followed that defence spending will not exceed 1 per cent of GNP , and although this ceiling has been broken on a few occasions , the 1 per cent target has a symbolic significance . |
| 17 | This is annoying , to say the least , especially when a firm commitment has been received from the same ‘ man ’ . |
| 18 | Moreover , the plane Tolliver identified as flying has been confirmed as the same plane hired by the Reagan administration to fly ‘ humanitarian ’ supplies to the Contras . |
| 19 | For 120 years the Bulls Head has been kept by the same family … this is landlord David Gane outside the pub around 1920 . |
| 20 | Here 's another new model from guy who has been riding for the same big-time company for literally eons . |
| 21 | In a journey back through the history of crime and delinquency , Pearson shows that for generations Britain has been plagued by the same problems and fears as today . |
| 22 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 23 | So far , the vaccine has been tested against the same viral strain that the monkeys were immunised against . |
| 24 | The village has one general store , an antiques shop , a garage , two public houses and a post office which was opened in 1851 and has been run by the same family since that date . |
| 25 | A pub which has been run by the same family for more than a century has won an award for its traditional charm . |
| 26 | The degree of dispersion away from these concentrations has been limited by the same forces that have prevented low-income people in general from moving into suburban environments , combined with a desire for being amongst their own people in an essentially alien culture . |
| 27 | The Hagen Biolife filter in our office tank has been running for a few weeks now , and one or two little problems have shown up . |
| 28 | Rather than concentrating on a bottom line which shows the profit attributable to shareholders , the value added statement is concerned with how much value the entity has added through its operations and how that added value has been distributed to the many resource providers . |
| 29 | A prized garden which has been tended by the same family for sixty years has been wrecked by an out-of-control car . |
| 30 | That policy would destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs in defence industries , including many in my constituency , yet it has been endorsed on no fewer than three occasions by large majorities at the Labour party conference . |