Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’
2 Well tha well oh well that 's alright , it was only that it 'd be I thought you said there was a place for your name and address that had n't been filled in by the computer so you filled it in ?
3 The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic
4 The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic
5 The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults .
6 The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse .
7 Impregnation of the sample with a coloured epoxy resin ( commonly blue ) makes the pore spaces more easily visible in thin section ( Chapter 4 ) and allows distinction between a true pore space and a void where a grain or crystal has been plucked out during the process of making a thin section .
8 A spokeswoman for Softlab , however , told the US paper 's German sister publication , Computerwoche , that the figure had been plucked out of the air and , while confirming that the two companies are in discussion , said that negotiations are no further advanced than those it is currently having with at least four other US firms .
9 A spokesman for the ministry confirmed that an outbreak of food poisoning in Bedworth in July had been traced back to the monastery .
10 Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist .
11 Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired .
12 She has been excavated out of the mud that preserved her in La Plata , they say , and virtually rebuilt .
13 In orthodox psychoanalysis , after the repressions of pre-genital and genital sexuality had been pointed out to the analysand , the choice was then either to sublimate these impulses or to reject them rationally .
14 If this legal consequence had been pointed out to the bank at the time , they might have said that that was not what they intended , but that is a factor common probably to all cases in which a release is given to one of two joint debtors .
15 It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them .
16 It certainly is everything that has been fended off by the ego , so to that extent it , it corresponds more closely to erm to the unconscious .
17 Hard cheeses are more fatty , the whey having been pressed out of the cheese to leave only the fatty curds .
18 Although they have been pencilled in for the Cymru Alliance next season , Llani have faint hopes of winning a reprieve if a present club pulls out of the Konica League .
19 Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend .
20 The home-help walked down the road towards Marie , wheeling her bike which had been propped up against the curb .
21 Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park .
22 Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter-
23 A ten-fold increase in fish farming is expected in Milford Haven , Pembrokeshire , over the next couple of years and , already , sizeable plots of land have been given over to the business .
24 Yeah it 's been given out on the radio today Dennis .
25 Not all the differences in approach to economic and monetary union have been ironed out between the French and the West Germans but they concern the speed and extent of the shift to a supra-national system , for running the community 's economy .
26 Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up .
27 Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole .
28 Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 .
29 Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored .
30 Talks in Rome were reported on Feb. 1 to have been broken off at the end of January by the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) which accused the government of violating the ceasefire agreement signed on Dec. 1 .
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