Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes when the little ones were weakly or had been abandoned by their mothers , we would have to take them inside and feed them by hand . |
| 2 | Our people deserve better than to have been treated like this , and the general quality of our society will not rapidly improve unless they are . |
| 3 | Dundee United mastered the elements better than their opponents and had in Ferguson , Scott Crabbe and Paddy Connolly lively players who continue to give the impression that Jim McLean is not far off having a team capable of far better than has been seen from his club in recent seasons . |
| 4 | Will they assume that people engage in this ritual because they have always done so and have been conditioned into it ? |
| 5 | Young lads who up to this point have had no real demands made on them by society , who have been spoiled and indulged by their mothers , who have followed their own inclinations entirely and have been tolerated in nearly everything , suddenly and incomprehensibly find that they are the subjects of a spiteful atrocity in which they are abused , assaulted , victimized , mutilated and sometimes threatened with death itself . |
| 6 | ( There were even reports of some of them being sent to bases in Iran well away from Allied bombing , much as had been done with civil aircraft in Amman in the 1980s . ) |
| 7 | It was made , but it was also found to be known already and to have been patented in the USA , along with Sontochin , by Winthrop . |
| 8 | Although many more ancient monuments and ruins existed than survive today , they were either thought of as relatively recent ruins or natural phenomena , or else they were explained away as having been made by gods or legendary heroes . |
| 9 | For this reason , just as has been seen in Holland and Germany , the British government has become involved with research and demonstration projects on traffic safety in residential areas . |
| 10 | The measures adopted were largely as had been approved by the outgoing Cabinet on June 8 , in response to the assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone [ see pp. 38895-96 ; 38978 ] . |
| 11 | L'Auberge expanded , necessitating the employment of Arnold , a young chef who took over most of the day-to-day running of the kitchen , and Olive , a restaurant manageress who , like almost all the waitresses , lived locally and had been trained on the job by George . |
| 12 | In contrast , all but one of the eighteen cottagers who had some common rights but no land in 1575 had disappeared altogether and had been replaced by others . |
| 13 | But Lambeth insisted last week it acted properly and had been backed by an SSI inquiry . |
| 14 | This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " . |
| 15 | Silvicultural practices vary enormously and have been described by D M Smith ( 1986 ) and Lorimer ( 1982 ) . |
| 16 | The car is 11 months old , spotlessly clean throughout and has been used as a staff vehicle by Renault UK . |
| 17 | It was transported to Bury a year later and has been worked upon continually since . |
| 18 | Also as has been suggested in the Non-Statutory Guidance for history from the National Curriculum Council pupils could be given a selection of materials in a scissor and paste exercise to design a poster explaining why French people wanted a revolution in 1789 . |
| 19 | Both very meticulous players , they had fallen more than one hole behind and had been warned for slow play . |
| 20 | ‘ But he 's committed now and has been capped by Northern Ireland Under-18s . |
| 21 | Indeed , she had dined in the Hotel the night before and had been introduced to her local MP , Sir Ralph Grunte . |
| 22 | The new sewage plant in Kiln Lane , with which residents had ‘ not been overjoyed ’ , was now working more efficiently and has been landscaped with fencing , shrubs and ivy . |
| 23 | Paul had done less well than had been expected of him at Balliol , not through his own fault . |
| 24 | Right Well garages the there are already some here and here , both in here and here that have been built as part of Ayletts Field . |
| 25 | There are a number of books in the list here that have been discarded from the British Library , including an editio princeps . |
| 26 | Extraintestinal involvement in Crohn 's disease has been reported increasingly and has been described in the skin , vulva , bone , and lung . |
| 27 | The best place for Jed during all of this , she 'd decided , would be with his minder ; she 'd worked out a special weekend rate with Mrs Neary some time ago and had been working on her conscience ever since . |
| 28 | Derek Fletcher was arrested by police in the USA three months ago and has been kept in custody in Corpus Christi . |
| 29 | The first woman governor , Miss Muriel Allen , retired a little while ago and has been succeeded by Mr. Roy Merricks . |
| 30 | Yet again England were indebted to Platt , who celebrated his 27th birthday just two days ago and has been restricted to the bench by an ankle injury . |