Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objection therefore is that since power and property have separated , the legitimating link between them has been broken . |
| 2 | After the statement was read , Mr Justice Davies — also the trial judge in the pamphlet action — said it would have been unfair to Count Tolstoy and Mr Watts if the jury in the action against them had been told that ‘ responsible publishers ’ had already paid money into court and agreed to apologise and withdraw a book containing similar charges as those made in the pamphlet . |
| 3 | ’ … if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . ’ |
| 4 | 9 – ( 1 ) Where there is an agreement to sell goods on the terms that the price is to be fixed by the valuation of a third party , and he can not or does not make the valuation , the agreement is avoided ; but if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . |
| 5 | Other innovations were also approached with circumspection by the BEA headquarters design engineers , even though significant experience of them had been gained both in this country and abroad . |
| 6 | There were some plans in existence and he studied old maps by R. Casson and J. Berry , which had appeared last in 1757 before the copper plates for them had been taken over by Harrop . |
| 7 | Although notice accounts are normally worthwhile , the return on them has been cut so much that there 's little reason for people to choose them over postal accounts . |
| 8 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | The bullets had followed each other too quickly from different angles for them to have been fired by the same person . |
| 10 | We 'll kee got to keep on getting it in proportion that ninety nine percent of them have been done right and that 's as to the seven hundred tests in out of four point five billion , is very small numbers indeed so the vast majority of women can be reassured . |
| 11 | A group of them have been rounded up at Gagosian from 14 January to 20 February . |
| 12 | These articles are of great interest , though some of the views in them have been controverted . |
| 13 | The validity of these tests , however , has been assessed by few and unconfirmed studies , in patients who were not taking NSAID , and direct comparison between them has been lacking . |
| 14 | These wadis are too long and , in many places , form too integrated a pattern for them to have been formed under present climatic conditions . |
| 15 | Yet three years earlier , at the important siege of nearby Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte , the French had used thirty-two cannons , gunstones for them having been conveyed there in carts and by packhorse . |
| 16 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 17 | I am particularly encouraged by the references to better facilities for pedestrians and cyclists , and to see that routes for them have been incorporated into all the major development sites where appropriate — and indeed given some prominence in the site maps . |
| 18 | A notice requesting people to take their litter with them had been placed , but I wonder how long the shelters will remain neat and tidy . |
| 19 | The second edition of this guide to medicines for older people and those who help care for them has been published by Age Concern England . |
| 20 | A number of them have been denied the opportunity to collect the awards for nearly 50 years by the former communist regime . |
| 21 | In the first place , by far the greater number of them have been made by people who have never heard of the doctrine that emotions and judgements are caused by bodily states … |
| 22 | Large numbers of them have been included in conservation areas over the past 20 years . |
| 23 | Their earliest known appearance was at Mochlos , around 2500 BC ( Early Minoan 11 ) , and large numbers of them have been found at later Minoan sites . |
| 24 | Now er clay pipes , we used to dredge up and they got dredged up down opposite Pinmill , and they were a long pipe , but cos the , the stem a lot of them had been broken off and wh how they got down there nobody know , I think they used to be like in ballast with the ships , I think . |
| 25 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 26 | A lot of them have been helped in their careers by stints of time at Channel 4 . |
| 27 | ‘ Our perception of the problem is that it comes and goes , according to the availability of the salmon and a lot of them have been trapped in the system because of the lack of rainfall recently . |
| 28 | A couple of them have been turned into erm movies with , with Paul Newman . |
| 29 | While the ramparts had been melting , the jungle beyond them had been growing steadily thicker . |
| 30 | To their credit the Stirling pack roused themselves to greater efforts , but after four pushover attempts by them had been repulsed , Heriot 's countered and it was Stoddart who ran through some weak tackling and put Henry Murray in for try which Lawrie converted . |