Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the service copy of the summons has been properly served the principal summons with details of the execution of service must be returned to the court before the return day . |
| 2 | Earlier that year it had been uneasily digesting the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev 's secret speech denouncing the excesses of the Stalin era . |
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| 4 | USL has been discreetly nurturing the unprecedented deal for the past two years , out-manoeuvering IBM 's attempt to get OS/2 adopted . |
| 5 | The swans started to build their nest several weeks ago and everyone at the factory had been eagerly awaiting the big day . |
| 6 | Boro saw a 16-point lead cut in half as Long Eaton , outclassed in the opening races , won four of the last seven heats and the margin of defeat would have been less had the impressive Dane Jan Staechmann not slid into the safety boards in the final race when set for his fourth win of the night . |
| 7 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 8 | Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ . |
| 9 | The space where the flowers had been soon became a thriving mass of weeds . |
| 10 | This was an enlightened decision , but it can not have been easy given the high level of unemployment in the rural west , and the need to find more material resources . |
| 11 | Smith , 29 , who has a year to run on his present deal , has had preliminary discussions with Mr Graham but Ken Friar , Arsenal 's managing director , said yesterday that he had not yet been formally offered a fresh contract . |
| 12 | For example , I mean , if a tutor , say , has been sexually harassing a young woman , and she puts in a complain of any kind or something like that , and then he puts pressure on her to withdraw that complaint and she does , I mean does the college at that stage stay well okay if she 's not going to complain then we wo n't do anything , thereby letting the harassment go ahead , or does the college say even though she does n't want to complain we 're nevertheless going to go ahead . |
| 13 | For instance , a workman may be injured by a chip of metal flying off a hammer which had been negligently manufactured a long time before . |
| 14 | It appeared then that Adam had actually been out shooting the last time he was here . |
| 15 | Scarborough seaman John Normandale has been posthumously awarded a Russian Convoy Medal in recognition of his bravery during the Second World War . |
| 16 | The central question ought to have been how to reconcile the economic system with the resource-base that it plunders with accelerating and reckless indifference . |
| 17 | The central issue in British politics has not been how to curb the elective dictatorship but how to capture it . |
| 18 | For children in primary and secondary schools , the issue has been how to make the national curriculum sufficiently flexible to accommodate children with special educational needs , while safeguarding their rights not to be excluded from mainstream education . |
| 19 | It also inspires him to realize the solo part with a weightiness of tone and concentration of line that has n't always been there to complement the natural clarity of his Brahms . |
| 20 | Indeed , it is the only Scottish hotel to have been twice awarded the Royal Automobile Club 's prized BLUE RIBBON AWARD for its superlative levels of service , ambience and facilities . |
| 21 | I would have enjoyed them even more had I not been about to faint every ten yards , but I was in far too bad a mood to tell my colleagues to slow down and wait for me . |
| 22 | Harry had been about to make a jovial retort , as was his nature , but he stopped and , screwing up his face , he said , ‘ Joe , the things you come out with . |
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| 25 | Meanwhile , strike partner While there has been no doubting the high regard Beardsley is held in around Everton , many had begun to question Mo Johnston , whose future at Goodison had been in doubt after two months in the cold , looks to have earned a temporary reprieve following his equaliser against Liverpool . |
| 26 | As he walked up to the house his black bitch , Polly , joined him from behind the compost heap in which she had been happily rootling the past half-hour . |
| 27 | St Catherine 's Dock was busy as a Hogarth etching and smelt as if something should have been quietly buried a long time ago . |