Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Naturally , it was never admitted they 'd been thrown out because of the investigation . |
| 2 | We 'd been turning on and off roads all along , dodging checkpoints I guessed . |
| 3 | There are some transitional arrangements to cope with designs which had been registered on or after 12th January 1988 but prior to the more rigorous standards now applicable ( that is , prior to 1st August 1989 ) and which would fail to be registrable subsequently . |
| 4 | Sure enough , within a day or two of this regrettable difference of opinion between the two physicians word went round the garrison that he had been seen up and about again . |
| 5 | Detectives say the two vehicles had been seen in and around Rushton on a number of occasions . |
| 6 | ‘ They recommended it to the Department of Employment but were told that things had been tightened up because of a Bulgarian footballer who was signed by Ipswich Town and then found to have less international caps than at first thought . |
| 7 | The allegations were denied by Biwott and by the government , which said that security in the game reserve had been stepped up because of attacks on tourists . |
| 8 | In 1988 , of 509 judges ( from the Circuit bench to the House of Lords ) , 91 had been born in or before 1920 . |
| 9 | The previous year regular Arts Centre visitors complained they had been kept out because of the festival . |
| 10 | Some three-quarters of all the slips in the book had been torn out and with the exception of three , all the stubs had been torn out too . |
| 11 | Yes , Morse was right in one respect : Aldrich , Stratton , and himself had been stationed in or around Oxford in 1944 , and he ( Brown ) had in fact known Stratton vaguely in those far-off days . |
| 12 | Criteria for inclusion of patients were ( i ) a new pulmonary infiltrate seen on a chest radiograph that had been taken on or within 24 h of admission and ( ii ) one of these features : cough , temperature greater than 37.8°C , or subjective dyspnoea . |
| 13 | It had been held up because of the freezing of assistance to the Soviet Union ( also released on the same day — see p. 38105 ) . |
| 14 | Payment had been held up because of a cash shortage . |
| 15 | In the event , he was accepted at Birmingham University , but just before he arrived he was informed that the geography department had been closed down because of austerity measures brought in during World War N. He therefore decided to read geology instead , but shortly afterwards he received notification that this department was also to be closed . |
| 16 | The bomb , which caused no casualties , had been planted in or under the luggage compartment of one of the buses . |
| 17 | She could say , in all honesty , that she had looked out her college paints and brushes but they had been dried up and beyond recall . |