Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Convention on Human Rights has not been made part of our law by statute , so it does not in itself create rights enforceable in our courts ; but having been ratified by this country it is binding on us as a matter of international law . |
| 2 | But since Gide has been criticized in this respect it is something which needs to be addressed . |
| 3 | It could even have been disguised in that box I sent . |
| 4 | Marshall seems to think it relates to the oyster farm negotiations , but as no money , has yet been received on that account I don t see why commission had to be paid in advance , particularly at a time when the group is pressed for cash . |
| 5 | proper returns adequate for our audit have been received from all branches we did not visit ; |
| 6 | That 's probably a set of tyres or something - it 's not a great deal of money in this day and age - but then failure is limited to actual breakage , wear and tear is excluded , it does n't cover the cost of working materials such as gaskets , if the vehicle has been modified in any way it 's excluded , it excludes any personal injury resulting from the breakdown , it covers erm the schedule is invalid if you have not covered the servicing aspects on page ten , the servicing aspects on page ten require you within ten days or two hundred and fifty miles of three thousand miles intervals — most cars now are six thousand mile intervals — to have the oil changed , so there 's a built-in additional service , and so it goes on . |
| 7 | The travelling showman William Haggar 's The Life of Charles Peace ( 1905 ) may be less achieved but the sympathy it elicits for the ingenious villain who had been hanged in 1879 marks it out as a piece of genuine popular entertainment . |
| 8 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |
| 10 | Yet if they have been done in this way it means they have not been done ! |
| 11 | Whether it is that nowadays people are less interested in playing games as between author and reader , or whether it is that the human liking for games-playing has been transferred to other fields I do not know . |
| 12 | If the Diamond Phoenix had been supplied with proper drivers it most probably would have done a little better , overtaking the Western Systems . |
| 13 | The trapdoors which covered the original apertures and which had been closed for thirty years he managed to get open with the aid of a tool , a screwdriver from the appearance of the marks . |
| 14 | When fast scoring is discussed , there is one name which comes up more often than any other , and which should , in fairness , have been the first to have been entered on this teamsheet. it has been estimated that Gilbert Jessop — ‘ The Croucher ’ — made his runs at an average rate of 80 per hour , a phenomenal statistic . |
| 15 | Having been trained in Institutional Management I still like to keep my hand in by catering for private functions such as weddings and christenings , and I intersperse this with occasional cookery demonstrations for women 's groups in the area . |
| 16 | Had the two junctions not been converted to single track it would be impossible for two trains to collide on them , BR 's then director of operations , Ivor Warburton , agreed . |
| 17 | So if your if you 're an elder it 'll be very difficult to get up those very steep steps etcetera so it 's got disadvantages now it 's been run all sorts of ways it 's was run you know it was run as a as a wine wine bar it was run as a restaurant it 's been run as a bar it 's been run as a stage door club but all this all these ways have been run by private individuals it 's not always been the trust that 's run it it 's been run as franchise all these people have great problems actually making profit out of it and making it suitable . |
| 18 | Some of them have not been found guilty , and albeit they have been charged with horrendous crimes they are still innocent people and it does n't matter even if they are not innocent people , the Government still has a responsibility to life and limb and really I ca n't see any case at all for not storming . |
| 19 | We do not think that they should have been put to this trouble we defend the status quo in the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 20 | Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering . |
| 21 | If the exchange suspects that a trade has been effected for improper purposes it must investigate this . |
| 22 | While many new ideas have been promoted for budgetary reform it remains the case that they have generally failed to gain general acceptance . |
| 23 | If anything has been achieved in this closeness it is a vow to retrace his steps , to remember and confront the house full of ghosts that have become his past . |
| 24 | Accordingly , you can show your reader that your critical judgements are based on what you know has been achieved by other writers you have read ( effects which can therefore be compared with each other ) . |
| 25 | We conclude therefore with one further example : ( 28 ) the Algerian supplies have already been loaded On this occasion we shall leave the clarification of the two meanings to the reader . |
| 26 | But if you 're like me moving to a , a house that 's been established for some years you 'll probably find there 's only a minimum of power points because let's face it over the years the use of electrical apparatus have become more and more has n't it ? |