Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [prep] [det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An offer of thanks has been extended to those who helped to make the event a success . |
| 2 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 3 | But the cost of his doing so has been revealed in all its starkness in the unseemly scramble for the succession that has followed his departure . |
| 4 | Despite his fame amongst his contemporaries , Gassendi has been overshadowed by those whom he influenced — perhaps because of the modesty and undogmatic nature of his arguments , which lie buried in lengthy , copiously annotated Latin works . |
| 5 | The latter group has been divided into those which reported a leptokurtic distribution , and those which just reported non-normality . |
| 6 | The range and richness of sport as a component of popular culture has been overlooked by those who take a ‘ diffusionist ’ view , concentrating on how middle-class games and values were passed on to industrial workers via muscular Christians and social reformers . |
| 7 | This Handbook has been designed for those who intend to become teachers of English as a Foreign Language and for those who already find themselves teaching EFL but wish to improve their formal qualifications . |
| 8 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 9 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 10 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 11 | Brian Inglis , a writer on the paranormal , said the spoof could have been damaging for those who had had ghostly experiences . |
| 12 | The Bill might have been opposed in all its stages in both Houses of parliament , and altogether you would have had to spend about £1,000 or £1,200 . |
| 13 | She could have been kidnapped for all I know . |
| 14 | As these activities became more intense a greater demand would have been placed on those who made it possible , the food-producers , who would have been under increasing pressure to maximise output . |
| 15 | May own efforts at making custard , on what I think was called a Hydra Burner , may have been forgotten by those who subsequently had to eat the awful stuff , but I am not likely to forget the watery culinary disaster ! |
| 16 | If a worker-led bid came forward and there were employees within a company who had drive , initiative and new ideas about how it could be run more successfully and provide more services at no cost to the public purse , why should they , in effect , be disqualified without their case ever having been studied by those who are supposed to study the bids ? |
| 17 | Eadberht abdicated of his own accord in 758 , handing the kingdom over to his son , Oswulf , and becoming a cleric at York ( where he died in 768 ) , but Oswulf was killed within the year by his own household in 759 near the unidentified settlement of Methel Wongtun and replaced by Aethelwald Moll , who is likely to have been associated with those who were responsible for Oswulf 's murder ; nor did Eadberht 's descendants recover royal power for twenty years . |
| 18 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 19 | The crucial importance of the functions of convening and chairing meetings seems to have been overlooked by those who set it up , or else these duties were delegated to people who did their best in adverse circumstances but who may well have been inappropriate choices . |
| 20 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 21 | His interviews the previous night had been done with all his customary thoroughness , but the most productive one had been not the Fernies or young Curtis , those most directly concerned with the incidents which had taken him to Boundary Drive , but with Ted Morgan whom there was really no reason to interview at all . |
| 22 | I realized , however , that to do so after we had been deprived of half our rifles and whatever security the protection of the Government afforded us would be to invite almost certain massacre . |
| 23 | The doll had been given in all its naked glory by one of the poorer parishioners , a relic of better days , and McAllister had undertaken to make its trousseau . |
| 24 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 25 | At the crossroads outside the village a row of clay effigies had been placed by those who 'd been bitten . |
| 26 | You can imagine my surprise when looking around the Lancaster hangar at the display boards , I came across a copy of Flt Lt Bulcraig 's DFM citation , with a typed caption stating that our pilot had been killed with all his crew ! |
| 27 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 28 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 29 | If my godson 's picture had been hinged with this we would have to had to learn to live with the stain . |
| 30 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |