Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 2 | It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them . |
| 3 | And Miss Haines , as Clara suddenly realized , with a curious tremor of conviction , had actually been hanging around in the corridor waiting for her to emerge . |
| 4 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 5 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 6 | ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again . |
| 7 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 8 | Hatton had been walking along in the dark and someone had waited for him among the willows and the brambles , the stone ready for use . |
| 9 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
| 10 | There were little spots of cement all along the top , where the railings had been torn out in the war . |
| 11 | Uniplex founder , Peter Osbourn , and finance director Dave Jennings have been squeezed out in the re-shuffle , and Patrick Regester , previously head of Uniplex 's international operations division has been appointed managing director , reporting to Amos . |
| 12 | As Dillon LJ pointed out in R & B Custom Brokers : … there are some transactions which are clearly integral parts of the businesses concerned , and these should be held to have been carried out in the course of those businesses ; this would cover , apart from much else , the instance of a one-off adventure in the nature of trade , where the transaction itself would constitute a trade or business . |
| 13 | How is it possible that what will prove to be an act of technological genocide has been carried out in the name of international law ? |
| 14 | Throughout the 20th century biomedical and biological research on animals has been carried out in the University of Oxford . |
| 15 | And I think it 's worth s er reading out that the Civic Society have asked er Betty in Arundel to write to us in order to express their appreciation of the work that 's been carried out in the church free car park . |
| 16 | Addressing a special session of the Cortes ( parliament ) on Feb. 1 , Alfonso Guerra , who at no time condoned his brother 's alleged activities , acknowledged that Juan had used the government office but said that this was because he was helping him as deputy secretary of the PSOE , and he denied that private activities had been carried out in the office in his presence or with his knowledge . |
| 17 | Language tests had been carried out in the breach rather than the observance . |
| 18 | The West German Finance Minister , Mr Theo Waigel , ruled out a common German currency until economic reforms had been carried out in the East . |
| 19 | Little mineral exploration has been carried out in the area which is poorly exposed except in coastal sections . |
| 20 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the survey concluded that ‘ a very considerable qualitative and quantitative momentum ’ had been built up in the training of part-time teachers for general adult education in the local authority sector and that this was beginning to spill over into vocational teaching . |
| 22 | I think most of the plots have been written , and it a genre that has been written out in the way that the Western was written out . |
| 23 | While the original purchase price was £28.8 million , the property had already been written down in the balance sheet to take account of the general fall in values . |
| 24 | It had been paced off in the sand as he announced the dimensions to the architect . |
| 25 | Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours , fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables . |
| 26 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 27 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 28 | Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's |
| 29 | Sandwiches had been sold back in the Store 's Food Hall . |
| 30 | Waterloo , having been worn down in the trench warfare , were left with little option but to run the ball and were still in the match when , from 30 yards range , Buckton fashioned a fine try for the lively Saverimutto . |