Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 2 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 3 | His colleague Dr Freer-Smith said , ‘ in many areas of West Germany there is evidence to link specific pollutants as a major causal factor ; but I also think the Germans would accept that there are both natural and pollutant stresses interacting — the idea that has been referred to as the multiple stress hypothesis . ’ |
| 4 | The position with regard to side letters ( setting out supplemental agreements ) is that they may not be binding as they probably will not have been referred to in the principal agreement . |
| 5 | The close relationship between criterion-referenced assessment and the curriculum has been referred to in the previous section . |
| 6 | The law has not been adhered to in the recent years , as it was in the past and every night when you 're out you usually see more than one cyclist driving without lights , often on the pavement . |
| 7 | The General Assembly condemned the invasion and asserted the rights of the East Timorese people to self-determination , but the matter has not been voted upon in the General Assembly since 1982 . |
| 8 | A DoH press release states that ‘ access to records will be free except when they have not been added to in the previous 40 days . |
| 9 | Not all the interests of our citizens have been looked after over the last twelve years . |
| 10 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 11 | As discussed above , the high currency of the group awards of HNC and HND has been built upon in the Advanced Courses Development Programme and the expressed need for analogous awards in the National Certificate has convinced SCOTVEC of the desirability of having group awards at all levels . |
| 12 | The Bank has been written to on the 5th February 1993 seeking a meeting for this purpose . |
| 13 | The Committee of London & Scottish Bankers ( CLSB ) has been merged with with the British Banker 's Association ( BBA ) ( which has hitherto existed side by side with the CLSB ) . |
| 14 | The proposals were reported to have been agreed upon by the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) and the Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) on Oct. 19 and were presented to the Council of Representatives on Nov. 18 . |
| 15 | The common law trust analogy has been drawn upon in the international legal system , most notably in the establishment of the mandate and trusteeship systems in the Covenant of the League of Nations and the United Nations Charter respectively . |
| 16 | If the single European market can be established and made to work as that common market that has been talked about for the past 30 years , it will be a considerable achievement , but it will not be easy . |
| 17 | We 're talking about this partly because of the document passed in the ministry in which , everybody has avidly read and erm has been talked about after the seventeenth er , in York in July . |
| 18 | A link with the literary house Meulenhoff Nederland is one of the possibilities that has been talked about in the Dutch trade . |
| 19 | Another agency may therefore apply for an EPO if it disagrees with the recommendation of the case conference or that recommendation has not been acted upon by the local authority . |
| 20 | The specification recommended in the document which has been issued , and which was praised in Standing Committee , has been acted upon by the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 21 | If it is noticed that a form has not been acted upon after the specified number of working days the New OED Computer Group should be informed . |
| 22 | The system has proved to be flexible thus enabling enhancements to be made — enhancements which quite often could not have been thought of at the initial design stage , since the concept of an integrated payroll and personnel function was very much new ground . |
| 23 | Buckminsterfullerene has often been thought of as the 3-D equivalent of benzene and so should be ‘ aromatic ’ , which means performing some of the chemical reactions for which benzene is noted . |
| 24 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 25 | Our diverse expertise has been called upon during the past year for the retrieval of radioactive isotopes from redundant industrial fire detection systems , telephone dials and medical sources ; the development of techniques for treating heavy metal discharges from industrial smelters ; the provision of packages for radioactive sources used by hospitals and health authorities . |
| 26 | We are the only country that 's been condemned in in the European courts for failing to meet the E C drinking water standards . |
| 27 | In recent years prisons have accumulated increasing numbers of mentally disordered people who at one time would probably been cared for in the old asylums . |
| 28 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 29 | Periodically praised in most food guides , the restaurant has been presided over by the urbane Tom Jones , formerly manager of the Scotch Corner Hotel . |
| 30 | Because had there been no breach , the contract would never have been entered into in the first place and the er plaintiffs will rely upon that erm recent court appeal decision between and er against where the court of appeal indicated that if you are dealing with a case where the plaintiff was saying had there been no breach of contract , this is a transaction we would never have entered in to then the plaintiffs are entitled to recover compensation on that basis . |