Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In previous years her job has been filled by a preregistration house officer . |
| 2 | Having been dismissed as a kitchen maid , she harnesses her poetry to her teapot . |
| 3 | As has already been indicated , the planning processes of each company had previously been examined in a research study carried out at the London Business School . |
| 4 | Survivors thought their vehicles had been stopped for a security check ; the shock of what they 'd seen sent this young Palestinian into deep trauma . |
| 5 | More than 1,000 women have been recalled for a repeat smear test after it was revealed Practice Nurse Ina Gordon used a wooden spatula designed for holding down the tongue instead of special metal spatulas made for the vital tests . |
| 6 | The house they lived in has been repossesed by a finance company , making 10 people and a baby homeless . |
| 7 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 8 | Its height suggests that it was unlikely to have been intended as a garden sculpture . |
| 9 | He was widely believed to have been interned in a labour camp in the mid-1930s ( a fate shared by the greater part of the clergy ) , and again for a year immediately after the Second World War , following military service . |
| 10 | The earliest area of crofts may have been situated on a bluff west of the church , while an extended area was later laid out to the north around a triangular green , with an earlier Norman manor house going out of use at the same time . |
| 11 | His father , Philip Henry Thomas , had distinguished himself in a Civil Service Examination ( Executive Branch ) and had been posted to a staff clerkship for light railways and tramways at the Board of Trade . |
| 12 | In all , it seems that Leapor has , at last , been recognized as a poet worthy of serious consideration . |
| 13 | THE remains of Adolf Hitler 's skull have been traced to a Moscow archive , the Russian newspaper Izvestia said yesterday . |
| 14 | Over the past three years my department has been collaborating with a training programme for general practitioners based at the Conceicao Hospital in Porto Alegre , a large city in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul with a population of around 1.5 million . |
| 15 | Another worker has been sacked for a shoplifting offence in a local store . |
| 16 | Thus , it appeared to be a curiously odd appointment to the District as the most active and successful Tutorial Classes already existed in Northamptonshire while there were large tracts of East Anglia where , from the WEA standpoint as a Responsible Body and as joint provider of Tutorial Classes with the Cambridge Board , much valuable work might have been undertaken by a university resident tutor . |
| 17 | * Evidence is growing that BSE may be transmitted through the generations , after a third cow which has not received contaminated feed has been placed under a restriction order on the grounds of suspected infection . |
| 18 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 19 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 20 | For too long it had been treated as a Cinderella service . |
| 21 | His listeners heard all the details of Oliver 's illegitimate birth , and how generously he had been treated as a workhouse orphan . |
| 22 | Because the vast majority of fibres have been treated for a machine wash , shrinkage is minimal . |
| 23 | Widely known for the large painted steel sculptures which brighten plazas and lobbies throughout the United States , and for his regular appearances in the New York salerooms , he is surprisingly unfamiliar in a London context and has not been treated to a museum exhibition in this country since the Tate Gallery 's survey of 1962 . |
| 24 | This is partly because the textiles and coverings have been treated with a sodium borate solution ( to increase their resistance to fire ) which has had an adverse effect on their appearance , and partly because most of the paintwork needs renewing . |
| 25 | While the American federal system has been likened to a marble cake , the British political system can be likened to a patchwork quilt . |
| 26 | The Type I system has been likened to a Health Maintenance Organisation ( HMO ) , with the difference that the health authority is compulsorily responsible for all residents of a particular location , and thus has no choice over membership . |
| 27 | ] The Type I system has been likened to a Health Maintenance Organization ( HMO ) , with the difference that the ‘ organization ’ is compulsorily responsible for all residents of a particular location , and thus has no choice over membership . |
| 28 | By the end of the sixteenth century it had been compounded for a cash payment from the counties and had thus become a straightforward tax . |
| 29 | On either side gold metal had been arranged on a wood background to create abstract angels , kneeling , praying , haloed but without faces , without radiance . |
| 30 | One particularly important technique that has been developed in recent years is the inverse scattering method of Belinskii and Zakharov ( 1978 , 1979 ) which had previously been developed as a soliton technique . |