Example sentences of "been [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This has been through no fault of local authorities , according to Noel Towe of the Local Government Drugs Forum .
2 Another means of keeping contemporary teachers better informed and less parochial in outlook has been through a range of central and local government books and reports .
3 You and your body have been through a lot of stressful experiences , both good and bad , and it could be as long as two weeks before you feel like doing anything except the most gently of runs .
4 The fourth way in which the underclass is immobilized at the bottom of our society has been through the spread of means-tested assistance , which has a devastating effect on the initiative of people on low incomes .
5 Of course , after you have been through the modes in one key , remember to transpose this information to all keys , not forgetting to learn the scale harmony ( I mn7 , II m7b5 , III maj7&sharp ; 5 , IV min7 , V Dominant7 , VI maj7 , VII Diminished7 ) .
6 Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that .
7 Schimberni 's 10-year investment plan for the FS had also been received unfavourably by the Transport Minister Carlo Bernini , whose preference had been for a programme with greater emphasis on capital projects .
8 It expects a loss for the first quarter and the loss will be substantially larger than analyst estimates — the average forecast has been for a loss of two cents a share on turnover of $565m — a figure the company says is way too high .
9 Reports on Nov. 12 said that US officials had confirmed that the final percentage of Warsaw Pact weapons cuts would have been higher had it not been for the removal of large numbers of Soviet tanks and other heavy arms across the Ural Mountains to areas where they were not covered by the Treaty provisions .
10 In c.1308 it was even suggested that some Gascons , especially from the Agenais , might have rebelled openly against their duke had it not been for the existence of French sovereign jurisdiction as a kind of safety valve .
11 Most of the assistance has been for the purchase of new or secondhand fishing boats , including the virtual rebuilding of the Western Isles fleet .
12 The various cups and horns in graves may have been for the consumption of alcoholic liquid , including beor , ealu , medu and win ( Fell 1975 ) .
13 Balassa 's ( 1987 ) " anti-monde " was derived using the assumption that the income elasticity of demand would have remained constant had it not been for the effect of economic integration .
14 ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’
15 The fourth stage was planned to take place in late March and will show what our position is after we have been off the air for some time .
16 He says that he is clean now ; Issy and him have been off the stuff for five whole days .
17 And we believe that several murders have been as a result of that sort of tension .
18 She 'd learned about that back when she was Jessamyn Amanda and nine-year-olds had been worth a gallon of potable water on the streets of the NoGo .
19 It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him .
20 She supports the Christian Democrats ( CDU ) , who until recently have been of no consequence at all in Lauchhammer .
21 Or , if prototype wingflaps worked to break the animal 's fall , you can not say " Below a certain size the flaps would have been of no use at all " .
22 The total losses have been of the order of 25,000 , but the fact remains that there are still more than 140,000 people directly involved in the defence industry and more than 120,000 indirectly involved .
23 This could well be true , for most sightings of a ‘ galley ’ have been near the sites of ancient monasteries or graveyards , where coins or gold plate could be buried .
24 I had n't been near the place for four years .
25 ‘ These last few days it 's been like a kind of magic carpet — we 've been so close , living on a heightened plane .
26 Police say a battle for territory between crack cocaine dealers has been behind a series of recent shootings in South London .
27 It had been behind the purchase of some of the BCR 's rolling stock in 1867 , when the available property of the line was sold in order to try and satisfy the claims of its creditors .
28 It was the first time she had been into the city since that awful night of the cockfight back in February .
29 I 'm very hopeful because er , Vietnam since nineteen eighty six has been under a process of economic and political reform , and they have released er a large amount of prisoners over this time , and there are still a number of prisoners , such as poets er religious people that are still in prison , who are hoping that , with their renewed effort and attention from the media , this 'll er be changed .
30 Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender .
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