Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women suffer a dual burden of work inside and outside the home and the strains experienced by working mothers have not been eased by offers of help either from male partners or the wider community and the state . |
| 2 | Many people grow up frightened of what may come after this life because their minds have been filled since childhood with ideas of hell and damnation , judgment and punishment . |
| 3 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one of the latest for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more for the fight against crime . |
| 4 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one idea for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more police for the fight against crime . |
| 5 | The skeleton , that of a woman in her twenties , appears to have been hidden in woodland near Chewton Mendip , Somerset , for years . |
| 6 | He stated that since April 25 officers and 600 other ranks had been dismissed on charges of indiscipline and involvement in criminal activities . |
| 7 | As a result of the changes Richard Prebble , who had been dismissed for disloyalty in November 1988 by David Lange , Palmer 's predecessor [ see p. 36294 ] , returned to the government . |
| 8 | Knowles was replaced by Perry Christie , who had been dismissed as Minister of Tourism in 1984 [ see p.33401 ] and subsequently elected as an independent MP . |
| 9 | On Dec. 29 Kibaki , together with John Keen , a former Assistant in the Office of the President , and Eliud Mwamunga , who had been dismissed as Minister of Works , Housing and Physical Planning in 1988 [ see p. 36136 ] announced the launch on Jan. 2 of the Democratic Party . |
| 10 | A month after the wedding , he had lost the municipal election at Shoreditch and been dismissed as Director of Propaganda by Mosley . |
| 11 | In Brown v Rentokil Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 4 , the EAT ruled that an employee who had been dismissed in accordance with sickness absence rules when she was away from work because of pregnancy-related illness , was not discriminated against . |
| 12 | The Smith family are everywhere , of course , so it is no surprise that over the years more Smiths have been dismissed by Smiths in Test cricket than any other self-destructing name . |
| 13 | The site has already been examined by planners from Stroud District Council , one of the most environmentally conscious authorities in the country . |
| 14 | LeWitt 's use of geometrical structures dates to 1963 but this vital aspect of his work has rarely been examined in depth in Britain . |
| 15 | Since Labov first developed his quantitative methods , a very wide range of different speaker variables has been examined in relation to patterns of variation , and indeed these methods can be used wherever a speaker characteristic is capable of being expressed numerically . |
| 16 | The development of one south London suburb has been examined in detail by Professor H. J. Dyos in his classic work , Victorian Suburb : A Study of the Growth of Camberwell ( 1961 ) . |
| 17 | Fallon and Christopher Danaher , 33 — both from Wembley , Middlesex — had been stopped on suspicion of kerb crawling in West London . |
| 18 | By the time bloodshed had been stopped in Dushanbe on Feb. 15 , by the 5,000 Interior Ministry troops in the city assisted by " citizens ' self-defence groups " , official casualty figures spoke of 22 people killed and 565 people injured . |
| 19 | The former Romanian regions of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina had been annexed from Romania in June 1940 in the course of the Soviet advance against the pro-German troops of the Romanian government , and after 1947 they had become the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ; in practice , the dispute was much older , dating back to Russia 's liberation of the region from Turkish rule in the early 19th century . |
| 20 | The Treaty of Rome had been signed without her in March 1957 ; the EEC had come into being in January 1958 ; and de Gaulle had been recalled to power in France to solve the Algerian crisis in June that year . |
| 21 | Some 10,000 troops had been flown into Caracas in response to the unrest , and official casualty figures put the number of people killed at 256 , including two soldiers and a police officer , and the number injured at 1,831 , with deaths and injuries mostly caused by gunfire . |
| 22 | Earlier in the month 806 Squadron 's three remaining serviceable Fulmars had been flown from Malta to Egypt via El Adem , each aircraft carrying three aircrew ; the ground party sailed for the same destination in a destroyer . |
| 23 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
| 24 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 25 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 26 | But now the charges against Koons of dubious taste have been joined by accusations of sensationalism and obscenity . |
| 27 | Even her departure had been delayed for weeks for want of the funds necessary to fit out her ship and escort . |
| 28 | Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works . |
| 29 | Plans by Prime Minister John Major to set up a powerful anti-pollution agency have been delayed following demands from John Gummer , Minister for Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , for a share in the running of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) . |
| 30 | Plans for the service , which will cost about US$ 1 million in the first year , have been delayed by lack of funds . |