Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | According to sources , a bankruptcy order had been made against the former chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee by the solicitors Denton Hall Burgin and Warrens , who had previously acted for him , and the Inland Revenue petition was automatically dismissed . |
| 32 | They could have been made by the same craftsman . |
| 33 | Had the numbers been written to the same number of decimal places all those ignoring decimal Points would have got the correct answers , producing artificially high success rates . |
| 34 | This residue has no doubt lost the shape of dividends , share warrants or the like but so would the entire income of the fund if it had been lodged in the same way with the Respondent 's bankers . |
| 35 | Two building societies and a bank have been robbed by the same man in less than three hours . |
| 36 | The authenticity of the film was stressed in all the publicity and much was made of the fact that not only had the trial scenes been shot at the same time as the judge was carrying out the Detroit sentences but the film actually used his own words . |
| 37 | Valenzuela 's only real friend was another recruit named Bratti Cornejo who had been drafted at the same time . |
| 38 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
| 39 | It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously . |
| 40 | It ‘ has not been reflected to the same extent in the fortunes of the chemical industry ’ reported Richard Freeman , ICI 's chief economist and chairman of the CIA Economic Appraisal Committee and Cefic 's Economic Outlook Working Party . |
| 41 | England have been drawn in the same pool as Pakistan , the host nation , for next February 's World Cup in Lahore . |
| 42 | They have been drawn in the same group , along with Steve Dorking , the England No.9 . |
| 43 | Scotland have been drawn in the same section as Ireland and Wales and are looking to go forward to a promotion play-off with the winners of a section involving Germany , Austria and Norway . |
| 44 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 45 | Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason . |
| 46 | A prized garden which has been tended by the same family for sixty years has been wrecked by an out-of-control car . |
| 47 | The reports are available in formats which have been approved by the Latter day Saints . |
| 48 | I looked for my favourite character , only to find he had been replaced by the same bitch who has taken over Lloyd 's job . |
| 49 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 50 | Armenia 's nuclear power station was closed in February 1989 because of earthquake fears , while construction of nuclear plants in Krasnodar and the Crimea had been terminated for the same reason , after popular protests and construction of several reactors of the Chernobyl type had also been halted . |
| 51 | Yet she felt , unable to help herself , a certain irrational joyfulness , as though an end and a beginning had been reached at the same time . |
| 52 | Borrowing from overseas has been affected by the same set of factors . |
| 53 | We should be careful not to look only at our friends and colleagues whose style may have been affected by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves . |
| 54 | I 've spoken to quite a few small businessmen who have been affected in the same way . |
| 55 | o Damage to outbuildings or walls where the main dwelling has not been damaged at the same time . |
| 56 | It was there that he met up with William 's younger brother John — they were contemporaries , having both been born in the same year — and began a friendship that ended only with John 's death in 1793 . |
| 57 | We discovered a strange fortuity : her mother and my father had been born in the same town of Dumfries and , moreover , we had a marriage connection — her cousin had married my cousin 's cousin ! |
| 58 | I felt as though I had been reincarnated in the same lifetime . |
| 59 | Even more important was that the jungle habitat had been protected for the same reason . |
| 60 | The Art Newspaper 's sources in Russia have , however , confirmed that Ivan 's treasure has been found to the same extent as the Loch Ness monster . |