Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a major effort has been completed against either a warren or a burrow system it can be expected that the area has been fairly well cleared . |
| 2 | Not everything was in ruins : rising through the rubble were banks of communications and control consoles , housed in cabinets with flowing , plastic lines that must have been designed at least a century previously . |
| 3 | Look no further than the row of foundations — most of them have been used for about a week , which is as long as it takes to realise that they are wrong for your skin . |
| 4 | Well they were bubbling this morning , I think mainly because of Saturday , when it r we were reall the whole club was lifted through Saturday afternoon because something was shown that erm has n't been shown for quite a while here . |
| 5 | Well they were bubbling this morning , I think mainly because of Saturday , when it r we were reall the whole club was lifted through Saturday afternoon because something was shown that erm has n't been shown for quite a while here . |
| 6 | A woman has offered to spend a hundred thousand pounds of her own money to reopen a village school that 's been closed for over a year . |
| 7 | By the time of Fritz and Hitzig 's work it had been known for nearly a century that electrical stimulation of nervous tissue would produce movements . |
| 8 | THE action of alkali metals and their oxides as promoters for many catalytic reactions has been known for nearly a century . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember a border collie that had been stolen from outside a shop where he 'd been tied . |
| 10 | Civil Service manpower has been reduced by almost a quarter . |
| 11 | Some asylum seekers have been detained for over a year . |
| 12 | ‘ They have n't been involved for quite a while so you could n't really expect them to be picked , ’ said Thorstvedt , who is likely to be Norway 's last line of defence on October 14 . |
| 13 | This concern has traditionally been associated with both a sensitivity within the organisation towards personnel issues and a responsiveness on the part of the personnel function to new opportunities for developing the service provided to the company . |
| 14 | The playground at Brockweir school has been deserted for over a year , once a 100 children were educated at this small village school , but it was closed last year because of declining numbers . |
| 15 | It had not been sighted for nearly a month apart from a brief report by a shepherd in Northumberland which sounded like a possibility but was vague — and the Zoo conceded that if he was still alive he could certainly survive like any other golden eagle in the wild . |
| 16 | New arrangements for providing treatment to people with drug and alcohol problems have been implemented with only a minimum of preparation . |
| 17 | It is difficult to identify farms inside these settlements , while related field systems have been suggested at only a handful of sites , including the presumed Romano-British fields at Braintree and the sequence of enclosures at Brampton . |
| 18 | After they had been stranded for about an hour , they heard splashing and noticed a smell of dead fish , then a hissing noise . |
| 19 | A full enquiry has been launched into how a rapist was able to attack an eleven-year old girl in a children 's ward at a London hospital . |