Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tennis Courts Nothing has been heard from either the District Council nor the Tennis Club . |
| 2 | Tennis Courts Nothing has been heard from either the District Council nor the Tennis Club . |
| 3 | A search and rescue procedure involving about 20 firefighters had begun in the building and soon afterwards a voice had been heard from below the rubble . |
| 4 | There the plaintiff passenger 's damages were reduced by 20 per cent because he had been out drinking with the defendant driver and a lot of beer had been consumed by both the plaintiff and the defendant . |
| 5 | It takes a bit of an effort to get to the punchline in IBM Corp 's alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp to enable record stores to create compact disks on the spot at the request of the customer ( CI No 2,166 ) , because the deal is actually between IBM 's Fireworks Partners unit , which is buying a stake in Blockbuster 's NewLeaf Entertainment Corp subsidiary and creating a new company , Fairway Technology Associates , both in Deerfield Beach , Florida ; the latter has been formed to further the development of multimedia technologies and to operate the multimedia distribution system , which will consist of digital content databases , interfaces to broadband telecommunications networks , audio and video servers and content production and display devices — and we were all wrong in suggesting that the point of the system was to enable retailers to eliminate the problem of needing to stock thousands of slow-moving titles — the partners say the aim is ‘ to create a more enticing retail experience ’ . |
| 6 | Despite pressure from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party , Mr Kaifu managed to keep his first two cabinets free of politicians who had been implicated in either the Recruit scandal or the earlier Lockheed bribery case . |
| 7 | The second approach , occupational structure , has been invalidated by both the population turnaround and the loss of agricultural employment already discussed , but it did once allow a reasonable classification to be made consisting of agricultural-rural , rural and rural-urban ( Robertson , 1961 ) . |
| 8 | Any chance of a Government defeat when the white paper is debated in the Commons on Monday has now been averted with even the majority of hardcore rebels threatening to abstain rather than vote against the Government . |
| 9 | Some modifications have been made to both the hardware and the Amiga 's operating system . |
| 10 | The appeal had been lodged by both the prosecution and the defence . |
| 11 | Lawyers for whom ducal service constituted a major part of their career were more likely to have been drawn from outside the duke 's regional orbit . |
| 12 | Lawyers for whom ducal service constituted a major part of their career were more likely to have been drawn from outside the duke 's regional orbit . |
| 13 | Gloucester has always been an important centre for the water-borne movement of goods , its quays dating back many centuries , and as far back as anyone can trace , the Severn has been used for both the import and export of a multitude of commodities . |
| 14 | He confirmed that she had been invited for both the church service and the lunch . |
| 15 | This does not mean that a consensus has been reached about either the inescapability of the male gaze or its centrality in feminist film analysis . |
| 16 | The management of our schools has been conditioned by both the ideology and practice of hierarchy and control to a point at which , in some cases , it must attract the pejorative term of managerialism , a condition under which the artificial needs of managers , organisations , systems , bureaucracies or routines assume dominance over the real needs of children . |
| 17 | Even before he became king , Edward sent out some ninety-four letters to religious superiors asking for benefices , pensions and corrodies for his clerks , and in the course of his reign over four hundred and fifty requests for corrodies , addressed to over two hundred houses , have been counted in just the Calendar of Close Rolls ; between 1308 and 1327 Worcester priory received no fewer than fifty-one royal requests on behalf of royal servants . |
| 18 | A large dark green Adidas holdall containing a compass set , two lever arch files and 20 three-and-a-half inch computer discs worth £145 has been stolen from outside the library at Darlington College of Technology . |
| 19 | Any progress in the situation of the farm worker during the last hundred years has generally been introduced from outside the industry and against the stern resistance of farmers themselves . |
| 20 | Close comparison of BBC and ITN footage shows that the BBC film has in shot the man who was most severely beaten by the police , but that the film has been cut at precisely the point when the policeman begins to set about him with his truncheon . |
| 21 | On Jan. 14 Richard Goldstone , chair of an independent judicial commission of inquiry established in September 1991 under the terms of the national peace accord [ see p. 38422 ] , said that he had been asked by both the government and the ANC to investigate allegations of SADF complicity in killings in black townships . |
| 22 | The ship 's electrics panel , which one usually finds in the navigating area for convenience , has been removed to above the vanity in the starboard after cabin . |
| 23 | Their daughters now in their sixties , fifties and forties , were the post-war generations of married women who found their way back into waged work , who disrupted the equation between the breadwinner and masculinity which has been inscribed in both the wage system and in the state 's system of income support . |
| 24 | During mid-January 1985 many European cities suffered smogs , but in Brussels , Belgium , on 17–18 January over half the sulphur dioxide content of the air had been imported from outside the city in the form of a smog bank or cloud which originated from Eastern bloc countries and West Germany ( figure 7.11 ) . |
| 25 | The distinction had been criticised by both the Law Society and the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee from its inception . |
| 26 | Worse , however , is the fact that the image is also fixed in its proportions and , unless it has been created at precisely the size you wish to use it , it will distort when manipulated by the publishing package . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , despite Northgate 's Irish facade and despite the growth of local mosquito exploration companies , mining in Ireland has since the sixties always been controlled from outside the country . |