Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most pet owners who know either cats or dogs would readily agree with where the expressions have been placed on the two axes of likelihood of attack and likelihood of escape . |
| 2 | The Treasury says the decision to change the basis of treatment , announced by Peter Lilley , Trade and Industry Secretary , on February 13 , came too late to affect the current year 's figures but have been included in the 1993–94 estimates . |
| 3 | According to Gregory , Chlodomer 's kingdom was divided equally between Childebert and Chlothar , but in so far as this division can be reconstructed it appears not to have been confined to the two brothers ; there are grounds for thinking that Theuderic also may have profited from the murders . |
| 4 | ‘ State-of-the-art ’ loader/levellers have been installed in the three kilns reducing the cycle time to 11 hours and all the steep tanks have been re-fitted with full ventilation . |
| 5 | Despite the squabbles , Harvard-educated Mahmood insists that bridges have been rebuilt between the two countries . |
| 6 | The Executive Committee have decided that we should be represented and a static display stand has been booked for the five days . |
| 7 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |
| 8 | ESRC funding enabled the research team to classify and analyse biographical material that had already been collected for the 1900-39 cohorts through record search and postal questionnaire for the 1940-67 cohorts . |
| 9 | as has been done with the two examples in the previous section . |
| 10 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 11 | He had been defeated in the 1990 primaries . |
| 12 | Nothing had been said between the two friends , and Ella often wondered if she had imagined a situation which did not , in fact , exist . |
| 13 | The mutualities of their friendship have been incorporated in the two worlds in question as they figure in Amis 's novel , where unattractiveness is a category as definite as mumps and the unattractive are absolutely and permanently unattractive to one another . |
| 14 | A survey has been made of the twenty-six judges who were active Law Lords during the period 1952–68 together with two Lord Chief Justices , two Masters of the Rolls and one president of what was then the Probate , Divorce and Admiralty Division . |
| 15 | He admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the slow pace of privatisation . |
| 16 | Mr Yeltsin admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the very slow pace of privatisation . |
| 17 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 18 | Various emergency measures had been imposed during the 1989-90 disturbances in Kosovo by Serbia 's President Slobodan Milosevic . |
| 19 | In Northampton a blind widow of eighty-two has been robbed of a thousand pounds at her home . |
| 20 | In the province of Alberta alone , public timberlands almost the size of the UK have been leased to a dozen firms . |
| 21 | All the necessary documents have been drafted by the two sides and the first conference of the new cultural commonwealth is due to be held at Dagomys at the end of 1992 . |
| 22 | It was said in such a way that it was difficult to refuse , and Stephen felt obliged to sit next to her , smiling awkwardly into the camera , whilst Christina looked on , unable to prevent a suspicion that the whole scene had been orchestrated by the two Americans . |
| 23 | The situation was abnormal in that the substance of the bill had been agreed between the two frontbenches , but when the inter-party talks broke down ( over a Rhodesian order ) , the Shadow Cabinet gave their members a free vote and a group of them resisted the measure . |
| 24 | In the case of joint submissions a letter will be needed confirming that methods of resourcing are available and have been agreed between the two parties . |
| 25 | France .......... 27 Home Unions XV .. 29 THE LIONS ' claws have not been drawn by the two months they have had apart since Australia . |
| 26 | Federal Judge Vaughn Walker dismissed Apple 's claim that the popular computer display graphics on its Macintosh range had been copied by the two firms . |
| 27 | The best places for bottles in Montepulciano are the cool brick cantine like that of the Contucci Palace , cellars furred with black fungus where Vino Nobile has been produced for a thousand years . |
| 28 | A leaflet giving full details of the scheme has been produced by the two councils and is available in libraries , Darlington town hall and Durham County Hall . |
| 29 | A Nottinghamshire mining equipment company which went into receivership in September has been sold to the three men who founded the firm two decades ago . |
| 30 | Some US holdings have been sold in the six months and more stakes in UK companies capable of dividend growth in a difficult climate have been bought . |