Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any ice left after the previous day 's racing had been broken conclusively in the scenes out in the station , and the party had already gelled and was in full swing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Viola 's voice had that organ note of the English landed aristocracy , though in her case it had been formed not in the hunting-fields , but on the lonely , sheep expanses of her native land . |
| 4 | Since we compiled the answer relating to company names and trade marks , our attention has been drawn to the case of Mothercare UK Ltd v Penguin ( 1987 ) which appears to have been reported only in the Times on 8 July 1987 . |
| 5 | In the past , most afforestation has been carried out in the uplands . |
| 6 | Of course , much survey and exploratory work on the North Sea Oil fields had been carried out in the years previous to our patrols . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , Yorkshire and Durham , the other two northern survivors , have been drawn together in the quarter-finals , with the odds favouring the White Rose county . |
| 8 | Cos quite a g quite a few young people have actually been brought up in the flats , have n't they ? |
| 9 | At the other extreme was a Filipino who had been brought up in the slums of Manila , his father an alcoholic drug dealer and his mother a whore . |
| 10 | An individual who has been brought up in the abstractions of education and capital , and who is certain of obtaining daily necessities , cultivates a distance from these needs , and affects a taste based in the respect and desire for the abstract , distanced and formal . |
| 11 | The law relating to children has recently been brought together in the Children Act . |
| 12 | Measures have been introduced recently in the spheres of employment and social security . |
| 13 | Most of these options have been taken up in the days of the controversies over Christology . |
| 14 | The European Court has in fact held that the internal competence may be exercised at the same time as the external competence so that the Community acquired the power to negotiate an international agreement before it had in fact exercised its internal powers , and this theory had in fact been taken further in the fisheries sector in the judgment in the Kramer cases . |
| 15 | Dr Howe , who has treated Tony for the past four years , said : ‘ It has been discussed endlessly in the newspapers and I think it is time to let it be . ’ |
| 16 | He tried to explain that magic had indeed once been wild and lawless , but had been tamed back in the mists of time by the Olden Ones , who had bound it to obey among other things the Law of Conservation of Reality ; this demanded that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used . |
| 17 | If you 'd been tossed around in the eddies down there I would n't have given much for your chances . ’ |
| 18 | I had thought that the ghastly images of that awful day had been burned forever in the minds of anyone who saw them . |
| 19 | With England now the enemy , this was inevitably one of the most vulnerable places in the northern kingdom — and indeed had been captured early in the Wars of Independence by Edward Plantagenet and remained in English hands ever since , its garrison readily supplied and reinforced from over the nearby Border . |
| 20 | But according to Chris Cowdrey , who made his England debut in Bombay in November 1984 just 48 hours after British High Commissioner Percy Norris had been gunned down in the streets nearby , tight security could suffocate the England players . |