Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation . |
| 2 | The exhibitionist streak that had been confined to fancy-dress parties at Virgin 's weekends away now found full public licence ; Richard Branson embarked on a sort of alternative career in fancy dress that would see him , over the years , photographed in airline captain 's uniform , as Peter Pan , Spider Man , City Gent and , on one occasion and for reasons that were never entirely clear , in the bath , wearing only bubbles and a cunningly placed newspaper . |
| 3 | I had caught an eider duck that had been sheltering on a lochan and was flying back with it against the wind when I grew tired . |
| 4 | It derives from the author 's experience of working for the Agricultural Training Board in an area in the North of Scotland where family and part-time farmers predominate but has been put on a wider footing by detailed investigations of attitudes and needs in eleven counties in England , Wales and Scotland , and by less detailed investigations during visits to Norway , the Federal Republic of Germany and France . |
| 5 | This is exemplified by Dritherm — the cavity wall insulation with the 100 year guarantee that 's been installed in half a million homes . |
| 6 | In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 . |
| 7 | A five-member UN war crimes commission that has been sifting through mountains of documents submitted by governments and non-governmental bodies is building a computerised database of reported atrocities , accompanied by names of victims , alleged perpetrators and witnesses . |
| 8 | They had reserved seats on the 2.30pm train but had been told by their travel agent that the 1.30pm train also took APEX travellers . |
| 9 | And though the new government came to power threatening to precipitate a European crisis over a detested farm deal that had been negotiated between America and the EC , only three of the 29 ministers of the new government are anti-Maastricht . |
| 10 | The printers " picnic that had been arranged for a Saturday at the beginning of August 1914 had to be cancelled because of the outbreak of war . |
| 11 | In the pre-unified past , Sotheby 's sold , without a peep of protest , a Pater and Lancret that had been looted from Potsdam ( The Art Newspaper , No. 1 , October 1990 , p. 1 ) ( subsequently reacquired ) , and negotiated with the Kupferstichkabinett , Berlin-Dahlem , in the sale of drawings from the Theodor Allan Heinrich estate , some of which had been looted . |
| 12 | Soil that has been absorbed into the top layer of a substrate may be very difficult to remove . |
| 13 | All stock that has been held for more than twenty months at the balance sheet date will be written down to scrap value with reference to independently verifiable third party documentation ; |
| 14 | If the Government sanction all the deals on gas burn that have been agreed to in principle , we will witness the transfer of 40 per cent . |
| 15 | Namawar and had been sent to hell-fire , came back in loud and strong . |
| 16 | Work that has been done on distributed associative memory models suggests that these may be suitable for modelling natural language parsing . |
| 17 | But work that has been done with story-telling in women 's groups shows that it can be tremendously enjoyable , and bring out a range of expression and imaginative ideas in every participant . |
| 18 | The Right Hon John Patten MP , Minister of State for the Home Office ( right ) , comments that , ‘ Victim Support has deservedly grown fast because it meets a long-standing and deep need that had been neglected for far too long . |
| 19 | At each side is a loop or scroll handle that had been soldered to the convex sides . |
| 20 | Erm I would say however that there has been far more consistency about the view taken of the need for greenbelt protection on the part of the bodies and individuals I represent than has been shown by the two planning authorities judging from all the changes that they have propagated . |