Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [verb] [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That in view of the foregoing considerations we ask you to ask the Masters " Association to delay any decision hurtful to the interests of women compositors until the women 's case has been given full consideration . |
| 2 | The windows of the Princesse 's salon had been thrown open to make it one with the vast slab of a marble terrace . |
| 3 | OFFICIALS of an apparently doomed workingmen 's club have been given fresh hope that it could survive . |
| 4 | Aideed 's fighters have been held responsible for killing 23 Pakistani UN peacekeeping troops on June 5 . |
| 5 | Half of the retention would be released upon the completion of the work by the sub-contractor and the balance at the end of the ’ contract ’ maintenance period , provided that all defects in the subcontractor 's work have been made good . |
| 6 | The department 's work has been given top ratings in both UGC/UFC research reviews . |
| 7 | It seems that Lord Li 's general has been taken ill . ’ |
| 8 | It is precisely because there is uncertainty about how far judges will continue to load costs for asbestosis and pollution on to insurers that so many Lloyd 's years have been left open . |
| 9 | Having ensured that Argyll 's deputy had been made aware of his wishes and of his loyalty to the duke 's interest , Drummond did not neglect to advise Lord Milton that he had been approached by Captain Haldane , another candidate seeking the votes of the freeholders of Perthshire . |
| 10 | Now the family 's fears had been proved groundless , the bungled pay-off could be dismissed as just another example of clumsy incompetence on the part of the police , the latest in a long list of blunders . |
| 11 | When Laplace , late in the eighteenth century , applied his nebular hypothesis to the problem , deliberately dispensing with concepts of design , it could look as if Newton 's God had been made redundant . |
| 12 | Criticism within the armed forces of the government 's policy had been given public expression in a Jan. 28 speech by the Army Chief of Staff General Mirza Aslam Beg , who described the Gulf war as part of a " Zionist " strategy . |
| 13 | To know with certainty whether one 's life had been considered good or bad would be a comfort , but even more satisfying would be to find there in the book the answers to the little unsolved mysteries of everyday life ; to read what really happened clearly and truly , like a watchmaker who opens the little door in the front of a grandfather clock and looks inside . |
| 14 | Last night 's lesson had been taught blind , there was no way of knowing how many had survived to get it by heart . |
| 15 | ‘ Piladu 's son 's been found dead . ’ |
| 16 | A former financial consultant who lost almost two million pounds of his clients ' money has been found guilty of seven charges of theft and fraud . |
| 17 | The vice-chancellor said the creditors ' committee had been given insufficient time and information to judge the proposals , which were negotiated by BCCI liquidator Touche Ross , particularly whether accepting Abu Dhabi 's package would recover more money for creditors than suing the majority shareholders . |
| 18 | The Midlands ' plants had been putting great pressure on the Merseysiders to call off the strike , as a result of which a mass meeting at Pier Head , Liverpool , had been demanded to vote on the question of a return to work . |
| 19 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |