Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she 'd been warned not to expect the welcome mat , Sabine thought , as she drove under the arch . |
| 2 | Also these towns have large areas of old nineteenth century houses which had been built cheaply to house the workers near the mills and mines . |
| 3 | He had been called on to take the job in the name of the Imam and the survival of the Islamic Republic . |
| 4 | During my own research into sea dumping at the time , I was told that in 1976 a team from the Atomic Energy Authority had been called in to decontaminate the Topaz , a ship used to dump Belgian waste , after the wrong type of drum container had been used . |
| 5 | Most of the coconut palms had been cleared from the twenty-acre site , and the dense vegetation had been cut back to deepen the crescent-shaped beach where the six low-level Mediterranean accommodation blocks were to be built , each housing twenty rooms , varying in size and design but all with huge covered terraces overhanging the beach with uninterrupted sea views . |
| 6 | On the other side of the stockade , the pattern of the vegetation was changing , the earth burning up as the sun reached the ground unchecked , so many big trees had been cut down to erect the Belmont stockade . |
| 7 | He had been seen earlier dodging the massed constabulary around the Winter Gardens , thrusting Labour press releases into the hands of reporters queuing for their body searches and radar scans . |
| 8 | He had been invited either to refute the allegations publicly or to withdraw from the elections , and reportedly chose to take the second option . |
| 9 | It had been argued for the defendant that the payments had been made voluntarily to close the transaction , but Lord Reading held that payment under the type of pressure he had described was not so made . |
| 10 | In every case that I have examined , the police were involved at a very early stage , before any serious attempt had been made either to assess the reliability of the allegation or to give the accused teacher a chance of refuting it . |
| 11 | The youths had been trained especially to protect the women . |
| 12 | Mr. Downham also presented the financial account , saying that it had been decided not to increase the parish council 's share from the community charge , by more than five percent . |
| 13 | RCD candidates therefore stood and were returned for all nine constituencies in the Oct. 13 by-elections , despite the fact that these seats had been vacated specifically to induce the opposition to end the ruling party 's monopoly of all 141 National Assembly seats . |
| 14 | Victoria was banned from the riverside and Gertie had been instructed never to take the baby anywhere near the water . |
| 15 | Although a skeleton staff had been left behind to keep the houses dusted and secure and though there were more of us in the compound than the average Western home would see in a month , there was an air of loneliness , an awful stillness as though the heart had been removed from the body . |
| 16 | Seekings had been left behind to supervise the equipping of the new vehicles , and by dint of bullying and gentle persuasion , had managed to get them ready for service . |
| 17 | A heavy police presence , including mounted policemen , had been drafted in to control the protesters , members of the National and Local Government Officers ' Association . |
| 18 | In previous years the competition cakes had been auctioned off to benefit the Belltower Restoration Fund — and that had been the intention this year , too — but there would be no bidders , now . |
| 19 | He had been ordered not to tell the Yugoslavs where they were going . |
| 20 | Quadrats of a large scale had been used before to determine the precise range of various species , but Clements and Pound marked off small areas , often only a metre square , so that every plant of every species could be identified . |
| 21 | A company spokesman would not say what measures had been drawn up to keep the port running normally . |
| 22 | In 1970 , an all-party Committee of the Council had been set up to examine the future of the tramway ; rising costs had once again called into question the future of winter tramway operations . |
| 23 | Then , in 1975 and 1976 , the CNAA 's committee for Art and Design , which had been set up to monitor the existing provision , instituted a major review and renewal of approval of well over 100 BA honours courses . |
| 24 | Kazakhstan 's President Nazarbayev , however , pointed out in an interview after the close of the summit that no executive or supervisory bodies had been set up to monitor the implementation of the agreements reached there . |
| 25 | However , publication of records by the press would be only be permitted if authorized by the commission which had been set up to administer the files . |
| 26 | Other community teams dealt with all their reviews in one regular weekly meeting which had been set up to meet the requirements of the care programme approach , evidence that this is having a considerable impact on the organization of services in the places where it has been implemented . |
| 27 | And in preparing for his own comfortable future , Robert Maxwell plundered £1 billion , which had been set aside to secure the future of hundreds of his workers . |
| 28 | The watchman had been schooled in security and he had been told not to open the door under any circumstances . |
| 29 | Fowler had been told not to press the old man , but the parentage of Cissie 's baby had been the cause of much of the gossip . |
| 30 | Well , in theory he was doing what he was supposed to do since this was the time of day he always spent with Katrine and he had been told not to vary the routine . |