Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 2 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | She has been recuperating from the shoulder wound at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic and had made enough progress to prompt speculation that she might , after all , be fit to defend her French Open title . |
| 4 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 5 | But she admitted she has been thrilled at the response the records bring and the millions of fan letters she has been sent over the years . |
| 6 | Her novels have the same honest sensitivity as the photographs she has been taking since the 1930s — photographs of rural poverty in Mississippi , of back streets with laundry drying on a line , of proud school teachers , of plum-pickers with their tin buckets . |
| 7 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 8 | She has been treated in the Royal Alexandra Hospital , Brighton . |
| 9 | She has been appointed to the Audit Commission as a manager in their Special Projects Unit , providing management consultancy to local authorities and the N.H. S. She is based in the Midlands . |
| 10 | Finally , Lowestoft members are reminded to be particularly polite to Marlene McGee , as she has been appointed to the Lowestoft bench of the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 11 | She has been covered by the dual-Gold Cup winner Gildoran and I also have two half-brothers to Party Politics — Christmas Gorse , who is in training with Nick [ Gaselee ] , and a two-year-old by Neltino . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But she has been caged inside the Grail Castle for the last twenty years . ’ |
| 13 | The girl is looking off-screen to the right , so she has been placed to the left of the frame to give her ‘ looking room ’ . |
| 14 | She has been elected to the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society , London . |
| 15 | Jean Parmiter reported that she has been asked by the Executive Committee to organise the Annual Reunion on 29th November . |
| 16 | Jean Parmiter reported that she has been asked by the Executive Committee to organise the Annual Reunion on 29th November . |
| 17 | Sentence was delayed on the mother , Celia Palmer , aged l8 , who was remanded to stay in the hostel where she has been living during the trial while social and probation reports are prepared . |
| 18 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 19 | She has been seconded to the Civil Service Selection Board , where she is helping to devise the entrance competition for the ‘ fast stream ’ applicants to the Civil Service , Diplomatic Service and Tax Inspectorate . |
| 20 | She has been pressurised by the big companies that contribute to the Conservative party and been forced to deliver what they want . |
| 21 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 22 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 23 | She has been acclaimed as the greatest Canadian painter of the century , while her four books are said to have reached new heights of perception and understanding in the annals of Canadian literature . |
| 24 | Unless she is very lucky , she will be the one who will be expected to provide the stimulation , for her elderly parent may have been alone since breakfast-time , and will be waiting to be ‘ cheered up ’ by stories of all she has been doing during the day . |
| 25 | She has been sidestepped for the chief slot on News At Ten , been desperately ill and has now been chopped from her Focus On Britain spot . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I 'm disappointed that she has been hijacked by the Scots . |
| 27 | Because there is a good general correspondence between courses she has been exempted from the 3 history compulsory basic modules and from 2 politics ones . |
| 28 | She has been hailed as the pioneer of a literary genre for the '90s : the ‘ Aga Saga ’ . |
| 29 | She has been told by the local hospital that she can not have an appointment until June 1993 . |
| 30 | This is the fourth year running she 's been asked by the Fellowship to create a cake in the shape of a folly — this one is of a pair of ornamental greenhouses nicknamed Tweedledum and Tweedledee . |