Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 2 | You can tell that you have not been fobbed off with the more mature product by the size of the cuts and the pallor of the flesh . |
| 3 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 4 | Until fairly recently , forestry has often been carried out on a very big scale , with tens of thousands of hectares being covered and public access made difficult . |
| 5 | Lighting , heating , ventilation have all been carried out on the most approved modern principles . |
| 6 | This evaluation will consider whether the school is now more effectively educating its students , and whether the change has been carried out in the most efficient way . |
| 7 | Many databases which use SQL provide a QBE interface so that inexperienced users can formulate queries quickly ( the data definition will usually have been carried out by a more experienced user using SQL and complex queries will also use SQL ) . |
| 8 | In this sense an academic discipline has been built up with an explicitly political stance . |
| 9 | Some years earlier , the same issues had been opened up from a more consciously theological angle by the Halle professor Martin Kähler . |
| 10 | But in the past five years the economy has been pulled along at an even faster pace than that merited by its industrial over-achievers . |
| 11 | It had been set up with a directly practical focus : to provide insights and resources which would help teachers in initial training to prepare themselves to use activities involving collaborative work between children . |
| 12 | Grace had been brought up in a very religious household and she maintained strict standards for herself but , she says , ‘ was not allowed to check or discipline John in any way ’ . |
| 13 | She had been brought up in the most isolated of spots — although , perhaps , because of its very isolation and Granny Tremayne 's aloofness , she had simply known about , but not exactly experienced , communal village life . |
| 14 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 15 | A number of significant problems for the distinction between anaphora and discourse deixis have been thrown up by the very considerable body of work on pronominalization ( see Lyons , 1977b ; Lyons , 1977a : 662ff for a review ; and for recent work , see e.g. Heny & Schnelle , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | In fishing this literally means that the catching sector has been forced back into a more primitive , earlier phase . |
| 17 | Some countries are keener on being cleaner than others and it has been left up to the badly affected states of Europe to set the best example . |