Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The part of the boy Miles , is sung by Sam Burkey , a 12 year-old who has been tipped as the next Aled Jones ; he 's already sung the part with the English National Opera . |
2 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
3 | Here its hegemony has been challenged by a third cultural and political thrust . |
4 | Agreement on the establishment of the AFTA had been reached at the fourth ASEAN summit held in Singapore in January 1992 [ see p. 38729 ] . |
5 | boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with . |
6 | Delivery of RAF Spitfires to the Mediterranean by the Wasp has been cited as the first large-scale act of co-operation between British and American forces during World War Two . |
7 | On the seminary hill a strange edifice had been constructing over the last previous months . |
8 | He had previously written a journalistic piece about the killings , in which De Freitas figured as shabby and contemptible , and Gail Benson as a silly upper-class woman whose accessibility to the knife might almost have been construed as a last desperate act of Sixties modishness : an antic exported from Swinging London . |
9 | Although no definite links have yet been discovered between the first mechanical clocks and earlier geared astronomical models and automata , the way in which a surviving late fourteenth-century clock such as that of Wells Cathedral displays the phases of the moon and figures which emerge at successive hours suggests that such clocks were the product of a continuing tradition from the distant past . |
10 | Conversely , to enter the chemical laboratory envisaged in 1606 by Andreas Libavius — a respectable Lutheran humanist , critic of the Paracelsians , and author of what has been described as the first chemical textbook — would be to enter an open house in which the products of the furnace were investigated with a sense of responsibility for the welfare of one 's fellow men . |
11 | In 1833 J. C. Loudon , who has been described as the first architectural journalist , announced that the ‘ great object ’ of his Encyclopaedia of Cottage , Farm and Villa Architecture was ‘ to show how the dwellings of the whole mass of society may be equalized in point of all essential comforts , conveniences and beauties ’ . |
12 | According to a recent Hollywood Reporter piece , the Runt is currently labelless but has been working on a project which has been hailed as the first interactive album . |
13 | In 1928 a new world-wide trade union organisation , the Profintern , had been established by the Sixth International Conference of the Communist International and in charge of its Negro department was George Padmore . |