Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and MOS equipment , which again , we we 've b successfully been doing over the last two or three years . |
| 2 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 3 | Exchange rates had only been adjusted as a last resort by deficit and surplus countries , and so were not used speedily enough to prevent prolonged payments imbalances and exchange rate crises . |
| 4 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 5 | The recommendation for deportation had apparently been added as a last minute after thought , without any proper inquiry . |
| 6 | The biggest change has come within the ranks of the SDLP where Martin Bradley , Mark Durkan , Kathleen McCloskey , Margaret McCartney and Wilfred White have all been elected for the first time and Pat Ramsey makes a return to the Council chamber having reclaimed the seat he lost in 1989 . |
| 7 | It 's two thousand rose plants have all been replaced over the last six years . |
| 8 | Nearly all the leading contenders have all been eliminated over the last year or so . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not here to fix the city , rather to take the work that has already been done onto the next stage . |
| 10 | Finally , he threw up slides showing the improvements which had already been achieved over the last three months . |
| 11 | The formal decision on industrialisation had already been made at the Fourteenth Party Congress in 1925 ; therefore the Fifteenth Congress could be claimed to be merely a continuation of previous policies . |
| 12 | The suggestion of a ‘ social contract ’ between States had already been made in the first half of the seventeenth century by Grotius . |
| 13 | We can not all , as it already been emphasised by the last speaker we may not all be able to do the same things we have not all got the same gifts or the same responsibilities er within the church but you all have the same responsibilities in this light of God . |
| 14 | The Constitution Scrutiny Committee on Nov. 13 made substantial changes to the draft constitution , which had already been passed in the first of three readings by the National Legislative Assembly ( NLA ) . |
| 15 | The economic and social problems of the second Labour government have already been outlined in the first chapter . |
| 16 | With no background in research or technology , Fabius will take his time before embarking on radical reorganisation of an area which has already been transformed in the last two years . |
| 17 | That " the living have no substance " has already been implied in the third paragraph , where the nouns eye , feet , hands , and figures are introduced as subjects of verbs which would more appropriately have human subjects such as men , servants , etc . |
| 18 | A Granada TV spokesman in Manchester said : ‘ The majority of Lynne 's scenes have already been filmed for the next few weeks . |
| 19 | That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during the last Session . |
| 20 | While this has just been confirmed for the next 10 years , until recently there was some doubt as to whether it would be renewed . |
| 21 | Léonie had just been kissed for the first time by a boy . |
| 22 | Papillon has just been recaptured for the fourth time . |
| 23 | In the Portuguese elections of 1984 , where I was an adviser , it was quite a problem — it had always been done from the second floor — so I suggested the flatbed truck concept that had been so successful in Malta . |
| 24 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 25 | For example , medicine ran to 80 pages , whereas the schedule for chemical technology had hardly been modified since the second edition . |
| 26 | In the final five minutes Titterton and Jones also went after been booked in the first half . |
| 27 | The programme to improve houses with bed-sitting rooms , flats and other houses in multiple occupation has also been curtailed to a sixth of the 1983–84 level . |
| 28 | But , by transforming , progress has also been made towards the first three goals : the batches are more symmetrical and bell-shaped , and some of the outliers in the original batch were not really unusual values , but merely a product of the upward straggle of the raw numbers . |
| 29 | Civil liberties have also been eroded in the last decade or more by government efforts to suppress media comment , criticism and reporting in cases such as the Spycatcher , Ponting and Tisdall affairs . |
| 30 | After protracted behind-the-scenes debate in the statutes commission , the congress was presented on July 9 with proposals to restructure the upper echelons of the party leadership , albeit less radically than had originally been proposed in the first draft of the new party rules published in March . |