Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 2 | He hands over to a young man with a toothless grin under a Coca-Cola hat who has been elected locally as the group 's ‘ popular educator ’ . |
| 3 | When the rabbits are removed from the net I always toss mine belly upwards to the ground so that the white hair on the underside makes the rabbit more visible in the darkness and I can then collect it later once the killing operation has been completed all along the net . |
| 4 | The importance of the matrimonial home has been recognised increasingly by the legislature . |
| 5 | This has been recognised periodically since the 17th century . |
| 6 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 7 | Managing director said : ‘ The safety culture has been built up over the years and the team as a whole is to be praised for that . ’ |
| 8 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 9 | These prizes were awarded to students for commendable achievements and demonstrate the close partnership that has been built up between the polytechnic 's Department of Science and local industry . |
| 10 | In the course of completing the resurvey of the Coventry district , a comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area by way of experiment . |
| 11 | A comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area , by way of experiment , so that thematic maps can be produced when required , as well as a more advanced three-dimensional depiction of geological structure . |
| 12 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 13 | The cattle were either ‘ walked ’ down to the marshes direct from market or were brought to the nearest point by train : today they are transported by motor-lorries , and in recent years a rough road has been built right across the marshes to enable lorries to have direct access . |
| 14 | A curing oven , the size of a car garage , has been built specially for the project . |
| 15 | The strength of the stock market has been built entirely on the belief that the economy is about to start growing again at a time when inflation , earnings growth and interest rates are all low and falling , creating ideal conditions for a period of non-inflationary growth . |
| 16 | All that has been written above about the identification of the goodness of Christ 's teachings with the objectives of the creation of the Created God , can be applied equally to the teachings of the outstanding figures of all religions and of all religious history . |
| 17 | I think most of the plots have been written , and it a genre that has been written out in the way that the Western was written out . |
| 18 | Any support , whether financial or political for those outside the enterprise culture — the poor , the homeless , the unemployed — has been written off as the unrealistic and dangerous machinations of the ‘ loony left ’ . |
| 19 | Too often his reputation as an architect has been written off on the basis of very late works which were more the work of his nephew , MacVicar Anderson , and his chief clerk , Colling , under his direction . |
| 20 | The dishwasher has been tucked away in the central island and is opposite the main sink , so dishes can be quickly rinsed and put out of sight . |
| 21 | The super smooth 2.5-litre intercooled turbo-diesel , quite the best of the bunch , is pepped up 4bhp to 98bhp ; the 3-litre V-6 petrol has been breathed on to the tune of an extra 8bhp , at 147bhp . |
| 22 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 23 | Yes sir , er ever since P P G three was revised at the beginning of last year , I believe that the department has been moving steadily in the direction that indicated but certainly my brief here is quite specific . |
| 24 | A long , narrow band of cloud has been moving down over the country and will continue to do so throughout the night before it moves away eastwards tomorrow , being replaced by clear skies to the west . |
| 25 | The use of CAI in library instruction has been developed largely in the USA . |
| 26 | For those too old , lazy or hungover to face the 15-minute slog up this hill , a crag has been developed just outside the village right beside the D546 road to Sederon . |
| 27 | As Marx ( 1989 ) has discussed , the science of genetic engineering has been developed only since the 1940s and especially since the 1970s , but its origins really began with the efforts of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel who , in the mid-nineteenth century , established the principles of heredity . |
| 28 | The German Bund contract was strong from the outset , probably due to the previously unsatisfied demand for derivatives based on German bonds , but this has been strengthened considerably by the reunification of Germany and the resulting uncertainty about long term yields on German paper . |
| 29 | The involvement of several amino-acid receptor subtypes in the induction of LTP has been determined largely by the use of antagonists and is described in Box 2 . |
| 30 | Half my body has been cut away by the surgeon 's knife . |