Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Det Sgt Pat Lewis , of the child protection team , confirmed she had been examined by a doctor and added : ‘ We will be speaking to her in the morning . |
| 2 | Their arrival had been delayed for a fortnight after Gen. Farah Aydid claimed on July 7 that an aircraft with UN markings bringing food aid had also carried from Nairobi military equipment and counterfeit money for his rival , Somalia 's transitional President , Ali Mahdi Mohammed . |
| 3 | The start of the hunting season in Greece has been delayed by a court because of a lawsuit brought by an environmental group . |
| 4 | Eddie made a harsh sound that could have been intended as a laugh but sounded more like a cry of pain . |
| 5 | Years of trial work resulted in the discovery that organo- mercury seed treatments would control these seed-borne diseases , and from the 1940's their use has become so universal that such devastating diseases have never been witnessed by a generation or two of farmers . |
| 6 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 7 | Epictetus said that we have been placed in a festival and we must enjoy it and be full of delight in it . |
| 8 | The general twinning link between Musselburgh and Champigny-sur-Marne has been developed on a primary and secondary school level and Betty 's own Musselburgh Burgh is twinned with Marcel Cachin Primary School . |
| 9 | Even if something has , in the first instance , been pillaged , rather than just been given as a gift or whatever , the statute of limitation could perfectly well have run out , and indeed , in Germany , if there has been a good-faith purchase in between , the period is ten years ’ . |
| 10 | If the patient has been referred to a hospital or has sought emergency treatment at a hospital , then he may proceed either against the negligent individual , the relevant Health Authority , or both . |
| 11 | At the onset she had been referred to a surgeon and had a normal barium enema and chest x ray . |
| 12 | Metal whiskers of this kind had been known of , in a general sort of way , for a long time but had been regarded as a nuisance or a curiosity . |
| 13 | In Beck v Szymonowski [ 1924 ] AC 43 a clause which provided that " the goods delivered shall be deemed to be in all respects in accordance with the contract " unless the buyer notified the seller of complaints within a stated period was held not to apply where the seller contracted to sell reels of cotton 200 yards in length but actually supplied reels of only 188 yards : the claim was " not in respect of goods delivered but in respect of goods which are not delivered " ( despite the fact that this might have been regarded as a claim that the goods did not comply with their description ) . |
| 14 | If someone knows they 've been contaminated by a needle or a knife , for instance , then I think the testing certainly is available . ’ |
| 15 | Once the gospel has been received by a group and a church formed , the next question which must be faced is , ‘ How should this Christian community live and organise itself to express most authentically the new life of the gospel within that cultural context ? ’ |
| 16 | But when he has been exposed as a liar and a traitor , left alone on stage , Shakespeare allows him to end the scene with a soliloquy in verse : . |
| 17 | As the book opens the only outside visitors to the sleepy town of Macondo are a troupe of gypsies , but by the close its residents have been exposed to a railroad and the attentions of a rapacious banana company . |
| 18 | Hence , the horse may spend the day avoiding mature people , and then find to its surprise that it has been caught by a child-foal that it had not perceived as possessing such ability . |
| 19 | The murder case slipped easily into its next phase , as if it had been programmed by a computer that had access to several personal files and knew where they interacted . |
| 20 | When humans cut down the forest , it might be replaced by a permanent grassland because the soil itself had been modified in a way that prevented the trees from reseeding themselves . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , Boyo , it 's either this or that , ’ said Taff , pointing to the alternative — a large piece of meat that had been roasted over a fire and looked most unappetising . |
| 22 | It is important that fieldwork should be properly supervised and that is why all professional research agencies get their field supervisors to make check calls on people who have been included in a sample and why fieldworkers should always have someone to turn to if they have any doubts or are in any difficulties . |
| 23 | Lynne Deeley has been confined to a wheelchair since she was mown down by her own car in April this year . |
| 24 | Although she always wanted to be a writer , the theatre has claimed a lot of her energy ( she has been nominated for an Emmy and a Tony award ) . |
| 25 | A 5th sheep belonging to a farmer in another field had also been attacked with a knife and beaten to death . |
| 26 | A pub landlord has been attacked with a knife and locked in his own cellar during a robbery . |
| 27 | In consequence , there has been the pretence that a single perspective grounded in the nineteenth century can capture the essentials of things today , and so constitutional theory has itself been frozen in a way that has confined the parameters of constitutional debate . |
| 28 | The house had been devastated by a fire and explosion on 10 April last year . |
| 29 | The next moment she jumped up , almost angrily , as though she had been trapped into a softness that she did not mean . |
| 30 | You were with the public , direct contact with the public and er I would hate to have been sat in an office and just looked at four walls . |