Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
| 2 | ‘ L'Etat c'est moi ’ was a shrewd remark , but can hardly have been intended as a definition even in the France of the time . |
| 3 | The account hovers on the brink of farce , and must surely have been intended as a spine-chiller more analogous to a modern horror film than a literal description of something which was to be believed in . |
| 4 | The place had been intended as a family home , he had told her . |
| 5 | His splendidly preserved antique desk had been placed like a barrier solidly across the room about two thirds of the way up . |
| 6 | B.P. has been likened to a honeycomb where groups worked as if in sealed-off cells . |
| 7 | These have been calculated by a technique misleadingly known as ‘ programme budgeting ’ . |
| 8 | When a programme has been developed to a stage where it is appropriate to subject it to observational tests it is confirmations rather than falsifications that are of paramount importance , according to Lakatos . |
| 9 | GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework . |
| 10 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 11 | Anthony Caro 's ‘ Tower of Discovery ’ has already been erected in a plaza close to the entrance to Expo 's site . |
| 12 | She swung to face him angrily , her pale cheeks now flushed to wild apricot , her breasts rising and falling with bottled-in emotion , annoyance , embarrassment and a feeling of having been manipulated into a situation where she had behaved like an ill-bred lunatic . |
| 13 | Dick 's fighter was not without its problems , the primary one being that the fuselage had been modified with a hacksaw so that there would be room to put a second seat in the airframe . |
| 14 | Miss Goody Two Shoes has n't been to work for a week apparently . |
| 15 | The totals had been disclosed at a time when local authorities and others were being subjected to curbs for alleged lack of efficiency . |
| 16 | ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her . |
| 17 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 18 | It had , after all , been built at a time when the rooms were heated by coal fires tended by an army of minions and when a score of carefully composed hand-written minutes by the Department 's legendary eccentrics were adequate to control events which now required three divisions and a couple of under secretaries . |
| 19 | In the last 30 years , and long before the amalgamation in March of the white and black and brown rugby factions , the unions were gradually split and sub-divided until now they number perhaps 26. of these , 20 are rural , including Boland and Border , and have been weakened to a point where they are virtually powerless , impoverished , dying or dead . |
| 20 | It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them . |
| 21 | ‘ We are now downright scared because we have been pushed into a confrontation not only with the police but also with the military , ’ Harris says . |
| 22 | PageMaker has a very clever habit of remembering all the changes that have been made to a document so that they can either be Undone or Reverted to . |
| 23 | ‘ I have been saving for a while now , ’ Yanto began , ‘ and by tonight I shall have a hundred and fifty . |
| 24 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |
| 25 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 26 | His move to Giverny in 1883 has often been seen as a turning away from the Parisian avant-garde and a retreat into the private world of his own aesthetic affairs . |
| 27 | Use of the TRAX system is now compulsory as noted above , but this has been seen as a benefit as much as a burden . |
| 28 | Later on we took them to Woody Swinbank 's at Mickleton , but that 's been turned into a pub now , appropriately called the Blacksmith 's Arms . |
| 29 | At the top of the house , one of the remaining two bedrooms has been turned into a studio where Geoff spends many hours playing music . |
| 30 | SunSelect Inc chief Carl Ledbetter says the company does n't know yet what Windows and MS-DOS applications wo n't run on WABI , the Windows-on-Unix software it bought when it bought Praxsys Inc : WABI has n't been turned into a product yet but something 's expected shortly and it should be bundled into Solaris this year ; meanwhile , Quorum Software Systems Inc will put Equal , its Macintosh application adaptor on Solaris-on-Sparc , and ship it later this quarter , giving Sun access to Mac versions of Word and Excel . |