Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The march of the matriarchal society may have been stopped here in the United Kingdom , but it is but a temporary halt , a moment in time . |
| 2 | Since Saddam Hussein marched into Kuwait , more that nine hundred Briton , most of the women , have either escaped or been flown out of the Gulf . |
| 3 | Gloucestershire have not been faring well in the Benson and Hedges Cup . |
| 4 | An NRA spokesman said the spillage had been traced back to the Lartington Treatment Works , where there had been no threat to drinking water . |
| 5 | The balance has been placed mostly in the Philippines and Indonesia . |
| 6 | The use of CAI in library instruction has been developed largely in the USA . |
| 7 | The issue has been referred back to the MacLeod Estates , from whom a reply is awaited . |
| 8 | He carried a stick to aid his ailing right leg which had been broken deliberately by the STB while he was in prison . |
| 9 | A lot has happened since then and the eyes of the world have been diverted elsewhere to the Gulf , the Kurds , the break up of the Soviet union . |
| 10 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 11 | But the points he made were chiefly concerned with moral questions affecting the status of divorce , on which he had strong views : whereas I had been occupied more with the Baldwin government and its apparent wish to stifle certain political views , especially concerning unemployment , to which the King had given expression . |
| 12 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
| 13 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
| 14 | And she has now been booted out of the Miss Italy contest after admitting that she underwent a sex-change operation last year . |
| 15 | Hunt reported on 14th December , 1858 that he had found that the site was just adequate , but he could not make a precise calculation until the accommodation requirements had been considered further by the India Office and the space required by the Foreign Office had been settled . |
| 16 | Roughly how many kilometres width of coal seams have been eroded away between the Lancashire and Yorkshire coalfields ? |
| 17 | Recent surveys have been carried out in the United States by Hardesty ( 1978 ) and in the UK by Malley and Moys ( 1982 ) . |
| 18 | Much of the detailed analysis of the role of pressure groups in the policy-making process has been carried out in the United States . |
| 19 | Although little detailed research has been carried out in the UK on the effects of financial innovation and structural change upon the appropriate conduct of monetary control , it appears that there is a consensus opinion that the effects of financial change necessitate that monetary policy be conducted in a discretionary manner . |
| 20 | However , relatively little detailed exploration , especially drilling , has been carried out in the Lake District or Snowdonia . |
| 21 | In a somewhat terse paper — it being considered that the more substantial analysis of principles had been carried out in the HMI document A View of the Curriculum — it was maintained that throughout the period of compulsory schooling , from 5–16 , all pupils should undertake study in English , mathematics , science , religious education , and physical education . |
| 22 | Further field investigations have been carried out in the Orissa region of India . |
| 23 | Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force . |
| 24 | A reconnaissance stream sediment survey has been carried out by the MRP over much of the orefield ( MRP 5 ) . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most sustained research into speech recognition has been carried out by the IBM speech group which started work on the production of a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system in 1972 . |
| 26 | The groundwork had been carried out by the Southampton Special Unit and Vigilant and Venturous had been deployed to cover the approaches to the Solent and Poole Harbour . |
| 27 | In Rome the work has been carried out by the Istituto Centrale del Restauro . |
| 28 | Yet we also have the example of Robert Ferguson , the Whig plotter who had been mixed up in the Rye House intrigues and Monmouth 's Rebellion . |
| 29 | That philosophy requires tests that have not been done before in the US , and that may never have been done but for the consortium 's help . |
| 30 | 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 . |