Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contract and business law Investigators : D R Harris , Dr C G Veljanovski Considerable work has been undertaken focusing on a range of issues arising in contract law ( including involvement in an Anglo-French project ) , and an empirical study of the contractual relationship between car manufacturers and dealers . |
| 2 | ‘ The particulars we had been given referred to an estate of 680 acres having four cottages and a stone house … |
| 3 | A child who had been taught to pray to a Mother in Heaven would have a religious life radically different from that of a Christian child . |
| 4 | The caravan has a canopy , disabled access and has been painted to look like a police car from the back ! ’ |
| 5 | The court staff have been admonished to deal with a request for postal service by solicitor as a matter of priority . |
| 6 | He had been caught stealing from a friend and had reacted ‘ hysterically , to the inevitable reprimand . |
| 7 | More than a hundred people have been caught speeding through a contraflow on the M-four in just two days . |
| 8 | Saad had taken his own life the night the news had gone round that he 'd been caught sleeping with a travelling shepherd . |
| 9 | TORY Minister Michael Howard has been caught travelling on a train without a ticket , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 10 | He would never , if he had taken to the high seas in past centuries , have been caught napping by a mutiny . |
| 11 | If you have been nominated to respond to an SPR , this option enables you to accept responsibility for the SPR or to pass it on to another user . |
| 12 | A KLF leader , Gurjant Singh , had been reported killed in a clash with police on Oct. 28 . |
| 13 | Augustus Aikhomu replacing it with a vice-presidency to which on Aug. 30 he appointed Aikhomu ; the appointment caused some surprise in that the job had been expected to go to a civilian . |
| 14 | Augustus Aikhomu replacing it with a vice-presidency to which on Aug. 30 he appointed Aikhomu ; the appointment caused some surprise in that the job had been expected to go to a civilian . |
| 15 | The court said that in the circumstances of that case the auditor could not have been expected to act as a specialist valuer , and was therefore not liable for failing to reach that higher standard . |
| 16 | Town might have been expected to dispose of a side they have already beaten twice this season , but not necessarily with ten men for 68 minutes of the game . |
| 17 | The talks , initiated in February [ see p. 37267 ] , had been expected to result in an accord by May 12 . |
| 18 | Whilst intensification of use has on occasions been deemed to amount to a material change of use , it is a difficult decision for a planning officer to make involving both fact and degree . |
| 19 | It is the first time in the history of this House that a petition has been presented accompanied by a demand . ’ |
| 20 | The tone in which Cap it had been said smarted like a cut . |
| 21 | But in the two decades since this mindless butchery no one has been made to answer for a crime which sent shockwaves far beyond the shores of Ulster . |
| 22 | The team realized that little effort had ever been made to look at an area of activity which tended to be regarded as a ‘ necessary evil ’ and one which was very time consuming and most invasive of their private lives . |
| 23 | He marched back in with his shoes duly laced up , before telling the court : ‘ I have been made to look like a child in a legal institution and take it very badly . ’ |
| 24 | It was such a ‘ whisperer ’ who had informed Jack that men answering the brothers ' description had been seen drinking in an alehouse on Winkfield Plain , not five miles from Maidenhead , the day after the robbery . |
| 25 | Viewing the text in this way raises the question of the containment of transgression , since both play and pamphlet have been seen to move toward a closure which contains — even eradicates — their challenging elements . |
| 26 | Nominations for the LASMO Staffa Music Award were invited from the United Kingdom 's top music colleges and five finalists have already been selected to perform at a competition and festival of music . |
| 27 | The school had been selected to participate in a research project set up to test some of the recommendations of the Gulbenkian Report , The Arts in Schools ( 1982 ) , and had chosen to use the extra finance from this project to institute a number of residencies for artists , writers , musicians , etc . |
| 28 | Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there . |
| 29 | Frankie had been told to dress in a hurry , and Sweetheart had taken him to the park near the old railway bridge in Horton Park Avenue . |
| 30 | The term " ocular dominance " ( or " eyedness ' ) has been used to refer to a number of different phenomena ( Money , 1972 ) . |