Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the Germans and others who in Freud 's time were antisemitic , but who had not yet , as far as it was known , introduced the Final Solution , had been coerced into Christianity quite recently in their history . |
| 2 | Two policemen were shot dead in Johannesburg yesterday , bringing to 40 the number of South African police members who have been assassinated on duty so far this year . |
| 3 | The killings have been surrounded by controversy ever since , but Government lawyers were arguing before the Human Rights Commission today that a British inquest has already ruled that the deaths were ‘ lawful ’ . |
| 4 | His distress could have been alleviated with treatment far earlier if he had been diverted into the hospital system straight from the police station , or direct from the court , rather than via prison . |
| 5 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 6 | Even to someone like myself , who has been envied in politics much more often for my physical stamina than for my brains , it was a severe pace , and I had only a fraction of the work and strain of Anthony . |
| 7 | In Yorkshire for example , the formal acts of parliament of the late eighteenth century were far more concerned with the enclosure of the upland pastures than with open-field land , most of which had been enclosed by agreement long before . |
| 8 | Carriage driving for the disabled began about 20 years ago and it 's been growing in popularity ever since . |
| 9 | The counterfeit packages have been found on sale as far afield as Ghana and South Africa . |
| 10 | This structural contradiction may explain , though it does not excuse , why Britain has been brought to book so frequently by the European judges . |
| 11 | ‘ Schools have been dealing in failure too long , and with the demographic and consumer pressures the present system is simply no longer viable . |
| 12 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) had been criticized for risking the lives of six astronauts , merely to launch a satellite which could have been put into orbit more cheaply by an unmanned rocket . |
| 13 | Plans had been put in hand as early as 1978 ( the so-called ‘ Ridley plan ’ : Young , 1990 , pp. 358–60 ) to tackle the miners in a later confrontation on terms favourable to the government ; indeed , because the conditions were not felt to be ripe , the government pulled back from an earlier potential confrontation in 1981 , and allowed a large pay settlement for the NUM ( Young , 1990 ) . |
| 14 | Treasury Secretaries have been fighting for reinstatement ever since . |
| 15 | Trevors parents say their son should have been taken to hospital straight away , not left in pain for two hours . |
| 16 | Sampson top scored for Sheffield with 12 and 13 not out having been kept in reserve too long in the second innings . |
| 17 | This beautiful fish is Pseudanthias bimaculatus which has been recorded from location as far apart as Mozambique and Indonesia . |