Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ill-feeling between the government and opposition was so serious that the National Assembly had been paralysed since convening in June , following the March 1992 general election . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what studies have been undertaken with regard to transfer of the avionic repair department from RAF Carlisle to RAF Sealand . |
| 3 | The cause of the decline is not certain , but researchers believe that pollution by nitrogen and sulphur oxides has acidified the soil to the extent where it can no longer support the fungi , and that this problem has been compounded by poisoning by metals such as aluminium , which have leached into the soil . |
| 4 | In what remains one of the most touching and compassionate statements of his flamboyant career , The Doc told waiting newsmen ‘ I 've been punished for falling in love . |
| 5 | The petition had been listed for hearing by Mr Registrar Scott shortly after 11am . |
| 6 | More work is needed , however , to clarify such putative differential regulation of the two L1 chains ; possible immunohistochemical artifacts can not be discounted because quite contrasting results have been reported with regard to expression of the two chains in immune granulomas . |
| 7 | Being based on characters which had been designed for incising in stone they were difficult and slow to write . |
| 8 | One organisation suggested , however , that — although no actual evictions had taken place — some people had been discouraged from going into homes because of the cost involved . |
| 9 | James decided to concentrate his efforts on subduing Londonderry , but in the end had to ride back , damp and disappointed , to Dublin , where , on 26 April , as he wrote in his memoirs , ‘ he found the arms not arrived from Cork , Kinsale or Waterford ; and that in the arsenal nothing had been done for preparing of tools ’ . |
| 10 | Computer buff Steven has been jobhunting since graduating from London 's Imperial College four years ago . |
| 11 | He waited for a fortnight after the heavy snowfall of late November and still nothing appeared to have been said with regard to Sarah 's move to Leeds . |
| 12 | Thank you Mr Mayor , erm I probably will repeat some of the things that have already been said with regard to community arts . |
| 13 | It may be that we must wait until all has been answered before hoping for enlightenment . |
| 14 | With automated bibliographic files and online catalogues , browsing has also been applied to searching in computer systems . |
| 15 | The Western Allies ' retreat had , however , been saved from degenerating into panic and rout by the intervention of the Russians on the Eastern Front . |
| 16 | He had been accused of clinging to Office , but he appealed to all those present to say whether such a charge was justifiable . |
| 17 | The announcement everyone had been waiting for came on time as British Telecom proposed to put up telephone bills by five per cent . |
| 18 | According to Tektronix UK Ltd , Marlow , Buckinghamshire , commercially available X-Windows applications are increasing at a rate of 40% a year : under the company 's validation programme , over 60 new applications have been approved after testing on Tektronix TekXpress X terminals . |
| 19 | The pope should have been called upon to act as arbiter in the dispute , as he alone has regal and sacerdotal powers . |
| 20 | Learning to read involves no learning ability that children have not already been called upon to exercise in order to understand the language spoken at home … and from Goodman ( 1972 ) : |
| 21 | With all due respect to my fellow countrymen , German prisoners of war have not been noted for escaping from England , not since the First World War . ’ |
| 22 | " If nothing has yet been settled with regard to Ald. Hallam 's gift of a thousand pounds , it seems to me well worth considering whether it would not be more advantageous to the School to endow a " Hallam Lectureship in Natural Science " than to found a scholarship . |
| 23 | Tyminski declined to concede defeat immediately and claimed that people had been intimidated into voting for Walesa . |
| 24 | Some of her time has also been devoted to caring for Michael , who was badly scalded in infancy . |
| 25 | And the mighty British Medical Association ( BMA ) , whose harrumphing once looked like destroying the programme , has been reduced to squabbling about doctors ' terms of employment . |
| 26 | Attention has also been focused on expanding through acquisition , removing doubts about the board 's ability to mix lateral movements with logical progression . |
| 27 | And Orlick had been arrested for breaking into Pumblechook 's house and stealing his money . |
| 28 | Government backing for the railways has halved to around £550 million in the 1980s and the new calculations of support have been struck before taking into account the estimated cost of safety measures demanded after the Clapham Junction disaster . |
| 29 | IBM Corp has been muttering about migrating to RISC technology for the AS/400 processor for a year or so now , and the company is now talking openly about it , saying that the AS/400 will move to a RISC , but not until several criteria are met . |
| 30 | A fourteen year old boy has been charged with wounding with intent after a boy of the same age was stabbed in the back . |