Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 2 | The search for signs of God in nature had often been based on the assumption that the two books had been written in essentially the same language . |
| 3 | X-ray fibre diffraction data had been obtained for both the A and B forms of DNA by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins at King 's College , London , but they lacked the phase data necessary to solve the structure . |
| 4 | His research had been conducted in exactly the same locality as Hsu 's but in the more peaceful conditions prevailing three years earlier . |
| 5 | On Jan. 14 Richard Goldstone , chair of an independent judicial commission of inquiry established in September 1991 under the terms of the national peace accord [ see p. 38422 ] , said that he had been asked by both the government and the ANC to investigate allegations of SADF complicity in killings in black townships . |
| 6 | Despite pressure from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party , Mr Kaifu managed to keep his first two cabinets free of politicians who had been implicated in either the Recruit scandal or the earlier Lockheed bribery case . |
| 7 | He confirmed that she had been invited for both the church service and the lunch . |
| 8 | These elections , the first to be called since 1963 , had been opposed by both the PLO and Jordan . |
| 9 | The appeal had been lodged by both the prosecution and the defence . |
| 10 | A search and rescue procedure involving about 20 firefighters had begun in the building and soon afterwards a voice had been heard from below the rubble . |
| 11 | Thus the system would differentiate between a context independent unit for as in band and a unit that had been trained on just the instances of occurring in the context of such words as and or an . |
| 12 | Apparently both the tomatoes in the peat and those in the coir had been grown under exactly the same conditions . |
| 13 | There the plaintiff passenger 's damages were reduced by 20 per cent because he had been out drinking with the defendant driver and a lot of beer had been consumed by both the plaintiff and the defendant . |
| 14 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 15 | The by-election had been billed by both the NP and the CP as a test of white opinion on constitutional change . |
| 16 | The change involved no religious problems because the larger colony had been launched for much the same reasons : a number of Puritans , of whom the largest single group came from East Anglia , had formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and obtained a charter to settle there in a firm determination to cut themselves off from England and the elements of Roman Catholicism they detected in the Church of England . |
| 17 | The distinction had been criticised by both the Law Society and the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee from its inception . |
| 18 | Foremost among these are the Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) which , along with the parks , had been proposed by both the Dower and the Hobhouse Reports . |
| 19 | During mid-January 1985 many European cities suffered smogs , but in Brussels , Belgium , on 17–18 January over half the sulphur dioxide content of the air had been imported from outside the city in the form of a smog bank or cloud which originated from Eastern bloc countries and West Germany ( figure 7.11 ) . |
| 20 | England manager Keith Fletcher yesterday confirmed that the 23-year-old had been omitted from both the senior trip and the A team tour to Australia for disciplinary reasons . |