Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] in this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least by 1960 it had been recognised in this jurisdiction that it connotes a duty not to injure one 's neighbour by want of reasonable care . |
| 2 | We found ( Appendix II , section 5 ) that on one London estate where we held group discussions several people lived at addresses which they said had been blacklisted in this way , because of bad payers who had lived there before them ; as a consequence , they felt they were being made to suffer from the bad reputation of the previous tenants . |
| 3 | Um she looked for um she looked at er a survey of two thousand odd adults that had been conducted in this country . |
| 4 | Indeed , after the lord pope had heard sufficient arguments from both parties , he decreed with the authority of the apostolic see that the same archbishop should demolish the church at his own expense , revoking completely everything that had been done in this matter . |
| 5 | Quite recently the King of France and the King 's own sister , Queen Margaret of Scotland , had been obliged in this way ; but now Queen Catherine 's uncle , the German Emperor Charles V , held the Pope virtually prisoner in Rome and had compelled him not to agree to Henry 's divorce . |
| 6 | Mr Ackerman stressed that in the five years the 20-pupil day school had been run by the Mannafields Christian Education Association at Carberry , near Musselburgh , East Lothian , no pupil had been punished in this way . |
| 7 | She did not want to pretend pleasure at being here and she did not want to witness even more proof of the life that had been led in this house , all of it with her father . |
| 8 | It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians . |
| 9 | Although a preparatory process for the restoration of loans had been initiated during a recent visit to Beijing by a Japanese government official , no " concrete " commitment had been made in this regard , Kyodo reported . |
| 10 | gone into and everybody had been trained in this sort of team briefing system . |
| 11 | By Sept. 21 eight people had died and more than 200 had been injured in this fighting . |
| 12 | Three fathers of cases and two fathers of controls ( and no mothers of either ) had been monitored in this way before their child was conceived ( relative risk 9.0 , 95% confidence interval 1.0 to 107.8 ) . |
| 13 | She had been born in this apartment — in the bedroom that he slept in , maybe the very bed , she grinned — and she loved the place . |
| 14 | Birmingham radicalism had been subdued in this way in the famous riots of 1791 against the radical dissenter Joseph Priestley . |
| 15 | In the second paragraph they expressly referred to the right of an over-subscribed school to adopt reasonable criteria for selection , the criteria had been published in this case , and that they were required to take such criteria into account . |
| 16 | After the applause had subsided Leese then spoke to the effect that national socialism had been vilified in this country , and that Germany was supposed to have nudist camps of unclean practices , which was untrue , but the IFL 's photographers had penetrated into nudist camps in this country , which were perfectly foul and run by Jews . |