Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 2 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 3 | Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 5 | Erm , but , having been supported by each chief officer and general manager , you will see in paragraph eleven of the report , the various actions that have been taken over the last twelve months or so , and I would like to pick out particular the fact , that chief officers are now , operating or required to have effective arrangements for achieving equal opportunity in employment in their department or unit . |
| 6 | Well over 400 individual environmental measures have been taken over the past 12 months to deliver our commitments , ranging from telephone helplines for those concerned about air quality to major international agreements on new standards for cars and water . |
| 7 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 8 | He has now undergone a total of 10 operations , of which five have been to straighten up the three remaining toes on his left foot . |
| 9 | Sharma v Knight [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 757 is authority for the proposition that jurisdiction conferred on county courts by statute is a general one and it is not restricted to the district in which proceedings should have been brought in accordance with Ord 4 , r 8 and that , if proceedings have been brought in the wrong county court , then the court nevertheless has jurisdiction to deal with the matter . |
| 10 | ‘ We decided to suspend treatment for a while but have been put on the waiting list at the Ulster . |
| 11 | But if issues like these have been put on the public agenda by feminists , the substantive gains they achieved were limited . |