Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 2 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 3 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 4 | Since the monks were thrown out of Prague in 1954 , the cloisters of the monastery have been given over to a display of Czech illuminated manuscripts , printing techniques and modern literature . |
| 5 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
| 6 | The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another . |
| 7 | What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified . |
| 8 | The picture is described as having been formed out of a series of anxious revisions which incorporate all that has preceded them so that there are glimpses of ‘ buried entities ’ to enliven gaps and edges . |
| 9 | Debates followed in parliament with the Unionists in full cry , for the Liberals seemed to have been caught out in a case of open corruption . |
| 10 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 11 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 12 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 13 | Some drivers whose tyre tread is below the new legal limit have been let off with a caution … others face prosecution . |
| 14 | All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction . |
| 15 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 16 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 17 | He felt like a moth that had been sucked in to a candle flame , but the fluttering was in his chest . |
| 18 | In recent years the defiantly right-on stance of the comedy circuit had been booted out by a brand of no-holds barred humour . |
| 19 | REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place . |
| 20 | The main testing has been operational , but it has been carried out under a variety of conditions and the low-level sub-programs in particular have survived essentially unchanged through several changes to the program . |
| 21 | The most severe tests have already been carried out on a man and a woman , unconnected with the project , last week . |
| 22 | Workflow software is able to recognise when a particular action has been carried out on a document and can then carry out other actions ( which were previously done manually ) by itself . |
| 23 | In tonight 's programme , Laura and her parents discover whether she is suitable for the surgery , which has only been carried out on a handful of other patients and is still at the experimental stage . |
| 24 | It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin . |
| 25 | Conversations with pupils about ‘ handicap ’ have already been carried out in a pilot study . |
| 26 | We are also able to certificate any module where the training and assessment has been carried out in a language other than English . |
| 27 | SCOTVEC can certificate any module where training and assessment has been carried out in a language other than English ; an endorsement appears on the Learning Outcomes Statement accompanying the Record of Education and Training indicating the language used . |
| 28 | Detectives believe most of the UDA/UFF killings have been carried out by a unit from the Shankill district . |
| 29 | A survey of these structures on the line has been carried out by a firm of consulting engineers , showing that only one minor bridge requires any structural repairs . |
| 30 | The few studies that have been undertaken have been carried out from a management perspective in terms of stock management or to quantity overall use of library , materials apart from items recorded in circulation statistics . |