Example sentences of "been [vb pp] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 2 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 3 | If Sombro had been referred to me at one of my clinics in England , the problem would have been easy to diagnose and the treatment straightforward . |
| 4 | ‘ And we 've been recommended to you by one of your staff , I believe . |
| 5 | This has happened to us and has been reported to us by many other couples . |
| 6 | Up to 5,000 ethnic Turks and members of the Pomak community ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) had held a vigil outside the National Assembly building on Dec. 28-29 , but had dispersed after the contents of the resolution had been disclosed to them by National Assembly Speaker Stanko Todorov . |
| 7 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 8 | For he often smelled of scent and powder which had been transferred to him from one or other of his dolly-birds . |
| 9 | Not a word had been said to him of any untoward suspicions , or of the threat of an eyewitness coming to judgement this very night . |
| 10 | Father , why has no word been said to us of this matter ? ’ |
| 11 | Although it has been argued that most of the ideas central to general systems theory are certainly valuable , they had been applied to it without formal knowledge of the theory ( Jennings , 1973 , p. 124 ) , nevertheless the theory has focused thinking and has probably been responsible for a more comprehensive view of many environmental situations . |
| 12 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 13 | Mr Waugh acknowledged that he was once again freezing the Ayr Road project even although money had been allocated to it in 1991 . |
| 14 | There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader . |
| 15 | The upset and damage which has been caused to us by these articles is an extremely serious matter . |
| 16 | If a Conservative MP X or Y , who has not been known to take ideological stands , approaches a minister or a whip and expresses grave doubts , this is viewed with considerable worry and it is assumed that these objections have been put forward by the MP only after the points have been put to him with equal or greater force in his constituency . |
| 17 | The argument for separating judgments of quality from the funding have been put to him by some people in higher education who are afraid that quality judgments might have a practical effect on the universities . |
| 18 | A few receive the justice that has been denied to them for five centuries , but most are still viewed by their governments as third-class citizens , subversive activists and threats to ‘ national security ’ . |
| 19 | His name had not been mentioned to her at all yet she knew his name from the description straight away . |
| 20 | It 's all a long time ago and I 've been married to him for thirty-nine years . |
| 21 | I said ‘ I have been married to him for 15 years . ’ |
| 22 | I said ‘ I have been married to him for 15 years . ’ |
| 23 | The landing strip had been described to me in some detail . |