Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposal for a new trading zone and for regional economic co-operation had first been mooted in 1989 by Turkey , which was responsible for convening this meeting . |
| 2 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 3 | The capacity of the stadium has been limited to 17,000 with Dublin being allocated 10,000 , 5,000 to Wexford and the remainder set aside for neutrals . |
| 4 | Until very recently , the SAAF has had the praiseworthy policy of flying as many of its historic airframes as possible , and the Oxford 's restoration has been undertaken with this in mind , or at the very least to allow the aircraft to ground-run . |
| 5 | The Census Offices in Great Britain are very concerned that the datasets should not be misused , and the registration procedure has been developed with this in mind . |
| 6 | Logging in the region has been halted since 1990 by court actions to protect the habitat of the northern spotted owl , leading to thousands of job losses [ see EDs 70 ; passim ] . |
| 7 | When FDA clearance comes through the final product in a portfolio of basic food ingredients will be in place — promising the transformation of what has long been regarded as one of Britain 's most boring businesses into a world beater . |
| 8 | Shevardnadze ( appointed in 1985 — see p. 33738 ) had been regarded as one of Gorbachev 's closest allies and personal friends in the leadership . |
| 9 | All age determinations have been normalized to -25 in accordance with international convention . |
| 10 | The first glass works in south Yorkshire had been erected in 1632 at Glasshouse Green , Wentworth , on the estate of Sir Thomas Wentworth , the great Earl of Strafford , but it had ceased production before the Civil War . |
| 11 | The plot boundaries defining the crofts on which these houses stood also changed , although the early impression of great change and lack of order has now been revised to one of combination and division of consistent units . |
| 12 | This has now been modified to that of SARFU representative , whatever that means . |
| 13 | By contrast , alcohol has been enjoyed for thousands of years and in moderate quantities is harmless . |
| 14 | The project had been cancelled by Labour for lack of public funds . |
| 15 | David , 38 , and willowy blonde Serena have been picked from hundreds of hopefuls to star in Diana : Her True Story . |
| 16 | The case of Timothy Evans , however , who had been hanged in 1950 after conviction for murder partly on the evidence of John Christie , also convicted and executed for murder three years later , had convinced him that mistakes could occur . |
| 17 | On the other hand , there is no doubt that the USM 's distinct identity has been eroded since 1990 by convergence in the regulation and cost of joining the Official List and the USM . |
| 18 | You must think I 'm absolutely barking just to have been sat with this in front of me and not done anything about it . |
| 19 | It did , however , come to light some seven years later that a Dr Bayley , a professor at Oxford , had been approached by one of Dudley 's servants shortly before Amy 's death . |
| 20 | But this is sugar cane country so it may have been designed with that in mind . |
| 21 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 22 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 23 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 24 | A part of this is personal : the shadow of Labour 's punitive taxation plans has been lifted from thousands of households . |
| 25 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 26 | He may have been missed on 96 by Morris , low at mid-wicket ; Morris may have decided that sections of the crowd would riot if he held it . |
| 27 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 28 | Perhaps it is the view from beneath an archway of the castle , which takes in the parish church , said to have been built in 1363 by John of Gaunt himself . |
| 29 | An earlier bridge on this site , the Judith Bridge , had been built in 1170 by Vladislav II but was destroyed by flood in 1342 . |
| 30 | School had been tiring at first on transfer but she had soon got used to it : originally she had belonged to a number of clubs in the early day ( Thursday ) when all such activities take place , but now preferred to go home early . |