Example sentences of "[adv] have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the comments outlined above have been reiterated in a pointed House of Commons report ( House of Commons Employment Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | The two rays behind have been turned into a locking device on the joint of its base . |
| 3 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 4 | Complaints about the Middlesbrough mosque and procedures for funerals held there have been dismissed as a ‘ complete misunderstanding ’ by Muslim community leaders . |
| 5 | I did some Medau in London before the war but since then have been thwarted by a lack of classes in this area — but — I am always hopeful . |
| 6 | THE general election result was a defeat for the BBC , the higher thinkers , the opinion polls — and the Liberal Democrats who once again have been exposed as a hollow shell . |
| 7 | Similar considerations apply to the definition of net assets , which again have been presented without a buying or selling perspective . |
| 8 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |