Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 2 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 3 | The mothers had been interviewed periodically since the children were two or three months old about such characteristics as the child 's activity level , adaptability , distractability , persistence and quality of mood . |
| 4 | In principle the integration of primary and secondary care should also be enhanced ( although this could have been speeded up if the government had integrated FHSAs with DHAs from the beginning ) . |
| 5 | This last item had caused them some concern when the bag had been unzipped just after the plane landed , but Grandson Richard had thrust the book among the papers without glancing inside . |
| 6 | THE RE-OPENING of the line to Welshpool in 1981 was an achievement which had been awaited ever since the line was taken over in 1960 . |
| 7 | In fact , most researchers now believe that , on their own , the principles of learning theory are insufficient to account for the child 's mastery of language ; the bulk of the research on children 's language which has been carried out since the publication of Verbal Behaviour has been concerned with illuminating other processes which may be involved . |
| 8 | In the book world list of bestsellers are often challenged , usually by publishers or authors who feel they should be in the list but have been missed out because the sample of bookshops used for the research was biased against their particular type of book . |
| 9 | That could have been done anyway if the disposition were in a will , but it may well be that it is in a codicil or other document to which the nuncupatio did not apply . |
| 10 | The stable block had been built later than the house , in the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 11 | Denning J. hints that Foakes v. Beer ( 1884 ) might have been decided differently if the fusion of law and equity by the Judicature Acts 1873–1875 had been considered . |
| 12 | In R. v. Monopolies and Mergers Commission , ex parte Argyll Group plc Lord Donaldson MR said that courts must show ‘ a proper awareness of the needs of public administration ’ : a court should be wary of striking down a decision if it is clear that the same decision would have been made even if the decision-maker had not acted unlawfully ; or if doing so would unduly delay the conduct of government business ; or if members of the public are likely already to have relied on the challenged decision ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's motivation in making the application was improper or vexatious or frivolous . |
| 13 | In many cases , these are the earliest references to trading at the places concerned ; and in some , the record has been made precisely because the king is granting the right to run a market . |
| 14 | Substantial changes to the original draft of the bill , notably the extension of all its provisions to cover Pomaks , had been secured partly as the result of agitation by several thousand Turks and Pomaks who demonstrated outside the National Assembly during the March 5 session . |
| 15 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 16 | Previous requests have been turned down as the Transport Department felt the road did not meet criteria for imposing speed restrictions . |
| 17 | Earlier proposals for capital investment had been turned down because the line had been considered beyond further improvement . |
| 18 | However , this procedure was not explicit to the readership , and only by adding an acknowledgement to the article could we make clear that the article had not been accepted just because the editor was an author . |
| 19 | Although the yolk sac will still be evident , there will not be a great deal of nutritious value left in it , as they will have been used up while the fry were in the pit developing . |
| 20 | Redpath had been called in because the body on the mud had been reported by P.C. Clifford from a land-based patrol car , but whether it was properly a land or a river matter was a moot point . |
| 21 | Patrick had been called in when the man had threatened his team with a baseball bat . |
| 22 | Days Mill , in its diminished form , has now been swallowed up as the town of Nailsworth has expanded around it . |
| 23 | The neo-classical Triumphal Arch , erected in 1794 , has been sealed off since the Berlin Wall was built in August , 1961 . |
| 24 | Corrugated shutters supposed to cover the unsightly skips in their cubby hole probably have n't been pulled down since the block was first occupied in the 1960s . |
| 25 | Since it had not been set aside before the pawnbroker took the ring , the pawnbroker acquired good title to the ring . |
| 26 | Lamarckism was the only morally acceptable theory of evolution , and Darwin was all the more to blame because he had concealed the fact that better mechanisms of evolution than his own had been proposed long before the Origin of Species was published . |
| 27 | A local authority may not cause the child to be brought up in any religious persuasion other than the one in which he would have been brought up if the order had not been made ( s33(6) ( a ) ) . |
| 28 | If this resulted from a positive proposal to shut down the unit it could not lawfully have been brought about unless the district health authority had first consulted the community health council . |
| 29 | The kidney transplant waiting list could have been reduced remarkably if the Church of Scotland had done their job properly . |
| 30 | Use of pesticides on the cotton crops of the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan has been reduced sharply since the mid-1970s , as evidence of disastrous environmental damage has mounted . |