Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |
| 2 | It has been pointed out that the modern ostrich and the Cretaceous Struthiomimus lived in the same sort of exposed habitat , and thus evolved similar bipedal running gaits . |
| 3 | It has been pointed out that the legal protection of children 's welfare is not the same as the conferment of rights on children , since it presupposes that welfare agencies , judges and even parents would have the right to take decisions on the child 's behalf . |
| 4 | It has been pointed out that the only propositions of which this is true are ‘ analytic ’ propositions — those that contain not statements of fact but rules about language . |
| 5 | It has also been pointed out that the ancient quarter of the city around the eastern gate took , as its own symbol , a black lion on a white background . |
| 6 | It 's beginning to feel like an age old question , or certainly one that has been hanging around since the dark ages . |
| 7 | The four types are the foundations of the modern phyla , the most basic subdivisions of the animal kingdom , although the articulates and radiates have been broken up as the true range of diversity has become apparent . |
| 8 | They 're part of a re-organisation which has been going on since the Nationwide merged with the Anglia Building Society five years ago . |
| 9 | And er this divided this street into two but at probably a number of years before , it had been tunnelled in and the top part of the street was called Street and there , there was a slight hill run down to . |
| 10 | His skull had been kicked in and the dark blood seeped out , mingling with the grey sludge of his brains . |
| 11 | In spite of the charter having been called in and the old Puritan ruling party apparently crushed , he rapidly attained considerable influence , as was sourly noted by the ardently imperialistic customs official , Edward Randolph [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | The waistline on bikini bottoms has been pulled up while the usual high leg cut has fallen to something less severe . |
| 13 | A framework for governing the colonies across the Atlantic had been set up but the British government of the early eighteenth century was not at all energetic in handling problems inside Britain and was most unlikely to exert itself about things further afield . |
| 14 | From here you can look at the menu that has been set up and the vast flexibility that 3DMenu offers . |
| 15 | Although the authorities conflict , it has been laid down that the new doctrine of reckless manslaughter supersedes the older doctrine of manslaughter by gross negligence . |
| 16 | The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner . |
| 17 | It has been shut down since the early 1970 's and now functions as a radar station known as RAF Portreath . |
| 18 | The front door and the vestibule door had been blown off and the heavy mahogany coat stand lay across the foot of the stairs . |