Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes when the little ones were weakly or had been abandoned by their mothers , we would have to take them inside and feed them by hand . |
| 2 | Our people deserve better than to have been treated like this , and the general quality of our society will not rapidly improve unless they are . |
| 3 | Dundee United mastered the elements better than their opponents and had in Ferguson , Scott Crabbe and Paddy Connolly lively players who continue to give the impression that Jim McLean is not far off having a team capable of far better than has been seen from his club in recent seasons . |
| 4 | Will they assume that people engage in this ritual because they have always done so and have been conditioned into it ? |
| 5 | Young lads who up to this point have had no real demands made on them by society , who have been spoiled and indulged by their mothers , who have followed their own inclinations entirely and have been tolerated in nearly everything , suddenly and incomprehensibly find that they are the subjects of a spiteful atrocity in which they are abused , assaulted , victimized , mutilated and sometimes threatened with death itself . |
| 6 | ( There were even reports of some of them being sent to bases in Iran well away from Allied bombing , much as had been done with civil aircraft in Amman in the 1980s . ) |
| 7 | Land worked on a co-operative basis in the controlled zones has either been expropriated from the large landowners who fled when the FMLN forces took over or has been donated by middle or small range campesino families . |
| 8 | Apart from performing the worst of all US football teams in 1990 , the team has amassed losses of $20m since Kiam took over and has been playing to 70 per cent capacity despite some improvement this season . |
| 9 | It was made , but it was also found to be known already and to have been patented in the USA , along with Sontochin , by Winthrop . |
| 10 | Although many more ancient monuments and ruins existed than survive today , they were either thought of as relatively recent ruins or natural phenomena , or else they were explained away as having been made by gods or legendary heroes . |
| 11 | For this reason , just as has been seen in Holland and Germany , the British government has become involved with research and demonstration projects on traffic safety in residential areas . |
| 12 | The measures adopted were largely as had been approved by the outgoing Cabinet on June 8 , in response to the assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone [ see pp. 38895-96 ; 38978 ] . |
| 13 | L'Auberge expanded , necessitating the employment of Arnold , a young chef who took over most of the day-to-day running of the kitchen , and Olive , a restaurant manageress who , like almost all the waitresses , lived locally and had been trained on the job by George . |
| 14 | In contrast , all but one of the eighteen cottagers who had some common rights but no land in 1575 had disappeared altogether and had been replaced by others . |
| 15 | But Lambeth insisted last week it acted properly and had been backed by an SSI inquiry . |
| 16 | This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " . |
| 17 | Three patiets were lost to follow up and have been excluded from the analysis of survival . |
| 18 | Silvicultural practices vary enormously and have been described by D M Smith ( 1986 ) and Lorimer ( 1982 ) . |
| 19 | The car is 11 months old , spotlessly clean throughout and has been used as a staff vehicle by Renault UK . |
| 20 | It was transported to Bury a year later and has been worked upon continually since . |
| 21 | Also as has been suggested in the Non-Statutory Guidance for history from the National Curriculum Council pupils could be given a selection of materials in a scissor and paste exercise to design a poster explaining why French people wanted a revolution in 1789 . |
| 22 | Both very meticulous players , they had fallen more than one hole behind and had been warned for slow play . |
| 23 | ‘ But he 's committed now and has been capped by Northern Ireland Under-18s . |
| 24 | Indeed , she had dined in the Hotel the night before and had been introduced to her local MP , Sir Ralph Grunte . |
| 25 | The new sewage plant in Kiln Lane , with which residents had ‘ not been overjoyed ’ , was now working more efficiently and has been landscaped with fencing , shrubs and ivy . |
| 26 | She seemed dressed for colder weather , in several layers of woollens and a heavy shawl ; dull colours , nothing gaudy , and her hair was pulled back and had been pinned in a clasp She followed as Angelica led the way toward the kitchen , careful not to hold the dead duck too close . |
| 27 | Paul had done less well than had been expected of him at Balliol , not through his own fault . |
| 28 | Right Well garages the there are already some here and here , both in here and here that have been built as part of Ayletts Field . |
| 29 | There are a number of books in the list here that have been discarded from the British Library , including an editio princeps . |
| 30 | Extraintestinal involvement in Crohn 's disease has been reported increasingly and has been described in the skin , vulva , bone , and lung . |