Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
| 2 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 4 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 5 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 6 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 7 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 8 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 9 | The procession had been broken up by a large number of black youths from Lewisham , Deptford and Brixton , waving Ethiopian flags . |
| 10 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 11 | The luck of the draw you may say , but if the match had been pegged out by a considerate , knowledgeable angler the problem would not have arisen . |
| 12 | Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist . |
| 13 | The once-scarlet , once-thick carpet in the foyer had been trodden down to a greasy thinness the exact shade of hard , encrusted blood . |
| 14 | VICAR 'S daughter Hannah Murray-Leslie was outraged by village gossips who claimed she had been booted out of a public school because of a frolic behind the bicycle shed . |
| 15 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 16 | Route options have been squeezed in down a narrow corridor of land near the A19 . |
| 17 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
| 18 | Once materials have been booked out of a main store formalities and paperwork should be kept to a minimum or avoided altogether . |
| 19 | The work has been carried out through a rolling programme covering 19 occupational areas and the results are published in the official journal of the EC . |
| 20 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |
| 21 | Some rural districts , however , still lack separate housing departments staffed by professionally trained housing managers , and in extreme instances allocations have been carried out on a more or less ad hoc basis by local councillors . |
| 22 | In the end , he had to settle for a survey which had been carried out on a national scale by a well-known agency . |
| 23 | Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) . |
| 24 | The situation at the moment in the field of research in homoeopathy is that much encouraging and interesting work demonstrating effects of homoeopathic potencies has been carried out in a wide variety of laboratory and clinical models . |
| 25 | The Minister also said that the medical examination had been carried out in a sympathetic and professional manner . |
| 26 | Sometimes the act has been carried out in a hostile fashion that causes maximum distress to the staff . |
| 27 | This work has been carried out by a small group of volunteers ( three to four persons ) . |
| 28 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 29 | A review of the constitutional position of the police and the ‘ arrangements for their control and administration ’ , had been carried out by a Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Willink whose final report had been published as early as May 1962 . |
| 30 | 200 post offices have been re-opened out of a pre-war total of 700 . |