Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds . |
| 2 | While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months . |
| 3 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 4 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 5 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 6 | The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors . |
| 7 | These had been broken up by the owls , and a collection of 1128 bones representing 27 individuals was compared with the bone numbers from intact pellets at the same nest site . |
| 8 | They trudged on , breathing the dust of the dry summer road that had been shuffled up by the boots ahead , and they wondered if there would be an issue of rum before the fighting began , or whether they would be too late for the fighting and would instead be billeted in some soft Belgian village where the girls would flirt and the food would be plentiful . |
| 9 | The plaintiffs , that is the Lebanon , Croatia and Hungary , will be anxious to see those parts of Sotheby 's evidence which had been blacked out in the documents made available to them , and then only shown to the court . |
| 10 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 11 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 12 | More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun . |
| 13 | The upsurge in interest in how small businesses are funded , reflects growing concern that they 've been let down by the banks , and the realization that they are the most significant source of employment as the country struggles to emerge from the recession . |
| 14 | That was rotten , now Mr Coombes feels there 's something rotten about how it 's been picked up by the planners . |
| 15 | They have been spied on by the paparazzi , betrayed by trusted servants , embarrassed by indiscreet friends , and have had to endure a constant torrent of innuendo , gossip , lies and half-truths in newspapers , magazines and books — none of which are they able to repudiate . |
| 16 | He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue . |
| 17 | Fido has been booked in to the kennels down the road and Fluffy has Mrs Jones coming in to feed her — but what about the fish ? |
| 18 | Here , perhaps , all the ocean floor material has been carried up into the mountains . |
| 19 | The red theme has been carried through to the goblets that the family use every Christmas , the napkins and the candlesticks . |
| 20 | More repairs have been carried out over the years — the most recent and probably most rewarding is the cleaning , repointing and replacing of stonework — all done by one of the parishioners . |
| 21 | Mobilisations , deployments and manoeuvres have been carried out over the years to discourage resistance to Communist takeover ( Czechoslovakia 1948 ) , to block undesired contacts with West Berlin ( 19 separate occasions , including two seizures of West Berlin territory ) , to apply pressure in negotiations ( Norway and the Barents Sea ) , and to mask intentions in crisis ( Czechoslovakia 1968 and Poland 1981 ) . |
| 22 | 1.6 " the Premises " means the part of the Site described in the Second Schedule together with such of the Works and the Tenant 's Works as may from time to time have been carried out on the Premises This describes the premises which are to be demised to the tenant and which will include the tenant 's works and possibly also the landlord 's works where alterations or refurbishment works have been carried out to the premises by the landlord . |
| 23 | 1.6 " the Premises " means the part of the Site described in the Second Schedule together with such of the Works and the Tenant 's Works as may from time to time have been carried out on the Premises This describes the premises which are to be demised to the tenant and which will include the tenant 's works and possibly also the landlord 's works where alterations or refurbishment works have been carried out to the premises by the landlord . |
| 24 | Very little research has been carried out on the functions of domestic pottery ; there must have been a variety of functions which , glibly , can be placed under the headings of cooking and storage , but behind such distinctions there is little clarity . |
| 25 | However , little research has been carried out on the quantities of wood required . |
| 26 | Despite the increased difficulties , trials have been carried out on the effects of homoeopathy in a chronic condition — rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 27 | Similar analyses indicating new ordering principles have been carried out on the gardens of aristocrats ( e.g. Leone 1984 ) , furnishings , the disposal of rubbish and forms of cutlery ( Deetz 1977 ) . |
| 28 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 29 | Perhaps they had been carried out on the orders of someone else ? |
| 30 | The path now follows Fleet Dyke until a corner where new edging work has been carried out on the sides of the bank . |