Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peacock said : ‘ I 've been thinking about our commanding officer . |
| 2 | I 've been sifting through my daily routine and I 've turned up quite a handsome collection of finely-wrought deceits cultivated over the years . |
| 3 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 4 | These bodies My Lords are after all precepting authorities and I think it crucial that those who 've been elected by their local communities should be in a clear majority and I sympathise very much with the er proposition in this regard , set out in the Noble Lord , Lord 's Amendment number twenty-one . |
| 5 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've been crawling through my barbed wire ! ’ |
| 7 | I 've been banned from my local club . |
| 8 | Remarkable disjunctions in the distributions of neotropical birds have been explained by their deliberate introduction to new areas by pre-Columbian bird-fanciers . |
| 9 | Fuller information is being prepared by the Finance Council and this will be issued in May when figures for the first three months of 1993 have been prepared by our financial auditors . |
| 10 | This process of subdivision is continued until an appropriate level of specificity has been achieved , and all subjects that are required to be represented have been listed in their appropriate places . |
| 11 | There is not , as far as I know , any monument to Abraham Darby I anywhere in Britain , although all our lives have been affected by his revolutionary discovery . |
| 12 | ‘ Then it must have been two other people that have been kissing on our front porch for the last nine months . |
| 13 | A further letter dated 9th July 1991 says that orders have been placed with your Direct Labour Organisation to carry out this work . |
| 14 | All have been exposed to his scarifying eye and his audacious judgments ; he has projected on all his volatile wit and a searching wisdom . |
| 15 | Literature on the use of traditional Chinese medicine has existed in China for over 4000 years but it is only in recent times that western scientists have been alerted to its hidden potential . |
| 16 | Those consequences have been highlighted by my hon. Friend with specific examples from industries within his constituency . |
| 17 | These results have been achieved despite our principal markets becoming even more difficult and complex . |
| 18 | The potentially unifying effects of their different but complementary experiences of racism are dismissed , while the inclusive and openly politicized definitions of ‘ race ’ which were a notable feature of the late seventies have been fragmented into their ethnic components , first into Afro-Caribbean and Asian and then into Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Bajan , Jamaican and Guyanese in a spiral . |
| 19 | Many streams have been stripped of their ancient boundary trees , and the knock-on effect of the drainage schemes has been to encourage farmers to turn their farms into prairies . |
| 20 | Boyd ( 1979c ) provided lists of four National Nature Reserves and 39 Sites of Special Scientific Interest , many though not all of which have been declared for their botanical interest . |
| 21 | These have been considered in depth in the judgments of the Court of Appeal and in the speeches of my noble and learned friends , Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle ; the principles to be derived from them have been analysed by my noble and learned friend , Lord Goff of Chieveley . |
| 22 | These original stories , by various authors , have been selected for their strong narrative content . |
| 23 | All the hotels in this brochure have been selected for their good value and have been inspected by senior executives of Enterprise Holidays . |
| 24 | As before , the problems of interpreting outcomes outweigh the difficulties of assessment and some of the criteria used in research have been criticized for their cultural and class bias . |
| 25 | I just know four families have been robbed of their beautiful sons . |
| 26 | Experiments have been made in which powerful magnets were placed around a nest to distort the magnetic environment . |
| 27 | Some trajectories have been lost from our strange invariant set . |
| 28 | A group of publishers and journalists from 38 African countries has called on the United Nations to declare censorship a grave violation of human rights and has asked African governments to free journalists who have been jailed for their professional activities . |
| 29 | TWO North-East heroes have been honoured for their outstanding courage . |
| 30 | HOPES THAT Chancellor Kohl 's Christian Democrat party can reverse the long downward slide to possible defeat in next year 's Bundestag elections have been dashed by its poor showing in Sunday 's North Rhine-Westphalia municipal polls . |