Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out that the forms had all been filled in correctly but the DSS had n't read them properly . |
| 2 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 3 | The fringes of the carpet had been teased out so that the individual strands could be seen . |
| 4 | As the repair had been carried out negligently and the plaintiff was a consumer , the action succeeded . |
| 5 | Nemesis had been wounded more severely than the others . |
| 6 | If the island did become detached in the way he suggests , then the mountainous regions in the south would have been separated far longer than the northern parts . |
| 7 | For although Cabezón 's compositions first appeared in print in Luys Venegas de Henestrosa 's Libro de cifra ( figure notation ) nueva para tecla ( keyboard ) , harpay vihuela ( Alcala , 1557 ) , and the rest of them only in the Obras de musica published posthumously by his son ( Madrid , 1578 ) , no doubt many had been written as early as the lute pieces in Narvaez 's Delphin de musica ( Valladolid , 1538 ) . |
| 8 | It has recently been argued very convincingly that the Cenomanian transgression can be blamed On a pulse of rapid ocean-floor spreading with the expansion of the mid-ocean ridges and consequent displacement of water . |
| 9 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |
| 10 | The buildings would once have been the stables to the bigger houses out on the street , but now the bigger houses would all have been subdivided long ago and the stables leased off and converted . |
| 11 | Plainly the clause was not on this occasion incorporated by virtue of the sold note , which had been handed over only after the bargain was struck . |
| 12 | Have they been dusted off now that the war is over ? |
| 13 | Some of that deal has been produced as far as the Tornado 's concerned , but again you 're quite right we 're waiting for the announcement of the er orders for the trains . |
| 14 | In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species . |
| 15 | He carries the burden of having been sworn in just before the US operations began , and he remains in hiding under the protection of the United States . |
| 16 | The girl 's body had been laid out just as the others , and it had been the work of a moment to discover the tiny stab wound under the soft left breast . |
| 17 | For the last century the Tay has been known not only as the largest , but also arguably as the best salmon river in Britain . |
| 18 | The majority of house-holds used ceramic sauce-boats , which had been introduced as early as the 1740s . |
| 19 | Possibly the Asians had been arrested too readily or the police thought the matter would be dealt with within the Asian community . |
| 20 | I have n't been involved as far as the self-appraisal is concerned . |
| 21 | Ray Darby telephoned to say that three of the four typing samples had been ruled out immediately but the fourth had looked promising although not identical with the death threat . |
| 22 | but er , that is the trouble , half of these are not been put in properly and the fumes are coming back over |
| 23 | In 1428 , however , it and some neighbouring villages were excused from paying the subsidy because it had less than ten households , and the excavation of one of the houses suggests that it had been deserted as early as the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 24 | The rival method of using metal rollers for milling corn had been tried as early as the sixteenth century but was generally only adopted for malt-milling until , in 1834 , a Swiss engineer substituted rollers for the original stones in the reconstruction of an existing mill . |
| 25 | But meanwhile democracy would have been taken much further than the Mensheviks envisaged — and there was even the possibility that , if revolution broke out in the West , the ‘ dictatorship ’ might be sustained by aid from socialist regimes abroad . |
| 26 | Once scheduled to run on DEC 's MIPS machines , then on its MIPS and Alpha machines , OSF/1 has now been scrapped as far as the MIPS boxes go and declared Alpha-only meat . |
| 27 | The last active reactor had been shut down in August 1988 , following a still unexplained power surge which , according to a report published in March 1989 , had resulted in the destruction of two heat exchangers ; two other reactors had been shut down previously and the remaining two reactors at the huge , 37-year-old complex had been permanently shut down earlier for safety reasons . |
| 28 | I agree with him that an unsatisfactory situation er was created in our legislation and in passing I would like to say how much we all welcome , I 'm sure the efforts of my Noble Friend to get legislation simplified , but erm on this particular matter which he has raised , I would like to try to comfort him if that is possible , because erm by getting rid of the er the sections two two A and three of the Police Act as they er nineteen sixty four as they have been amended and er substituting this clause to the Bill simplification will in fact have been achieved so far as the form is concerned . |
| 29 | Although the South Downs were cleared at a very early stage in man 's history in Britain , the clearing of the Wealden forest was delayed until the medieval period , the height of the clearance being in the 13th and 14th centuries , although parts may have been cleared as early as the ninth century . |
| 30 | These results have been obtained more simply than the corresponding results for laminar flow . |