Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Lighting , heating , ventilation have all been carried out on the most approved modern principles . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |