Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had once embraced the world with her enthusiasm , laughed at life , had been filled with compassion for those less fortunate , and what was she now ? |
| 2 | ‘ I now have a wonderful little boy who is absolutely perfection , ’ she says , ‘ I know I might have had another wonderful child but I would have been riddled with doubt for most of its life . ’ |
| 3 | They have been examined by experts in many different parts of the world . |
| 4 | The North American Cordillera , which has a tectonic history of bewildering complexity , has not been examined in detail in this chapter but various aspects of its evolution are considered by Dickinson ( 1976 ) , Eaton ( 1987 ) and Smith and Eaton ( 1978 ) . |
| 5 | The texts , which are generally agreed to have forged elements in them , have been examined in detail by several scholars , and there are only two preliminary remarks which need to be made . |
| 6 | Nor did Gustave — shouting for wine , leading the animal round the room and bellowing its virtues : ‘ The young phenomenon is three years old , has passed the Académie de Métecine , and has been honoured by visits from several crowned heads , etc . ’ |
| 7 | Jones had been banished in March of that year for kicking Everton 's Peter Reid in the face as he lay on the ground and 11 months later he was again dismissed at Goodison Park , this time after a head-to-head with Kevin Ratcliffe . |
| 8 | God had long been banished in favour of any number of petty little sects , clinging to tattered bits of faith ; they could be tolerated , since they formed no collective alternative to the consumer society on which organized science depended so heavily . |
| 9 | Less has been heard from mothers for many of whom maintenance is their only chance of getting off benefit . |
| 10 | Canon by inversion is not as easy to follow as normal imitation , and perhaps by reason of this obscurity it has been favoured by composers in this century — or at least by those who prefer obscurity to clarity . |
| 11 | The student here may inform himself whether he has been favoured by heaven with this truly divine gift . |
| 12 | British Petroleum is taking a lead in advising Hungarian ( and Czech ) industry on what to do about large-scale redundancies in a country where unemployment has been limited by law to little more than 5 per cent . |
| 13 | Debbie Dent from Oxfordshire 's Trading Standard 's Department says although the product 's been withdrawn from sale in most shops , some of the sets marked ‘ Salter 's Science Fun with Crystals ’ may have already been bought and put aside for Christmas . |
| 14 | To consider that matter at a point of time when the child has been placed under protection for several weeks , first by a place of safety order and then by one or more interim care orders , would , as pointed out by Bush J. in M. v. Westminster City Council [ 1985 ] F.L.R. 325 , 340 , defeat the purpose of Parliament . |
| 15 | The restrictions that have been placed on development in these areas have partly secured these conservationist goals . |
| 16 | His field was bio-improvements engineering , and he had been placed in charge of some hush-hush military project that had racked him up a rep as the Frankenstein of his generation . |
| 17 | This is a good argument as it stands but one can well imagine that it would have been pressed in terms of these hopefuls having a right to be paid if they succeeded . |
| 18 | The plant , an older-style , Soviet-designed pressurised water reactor , has been plagued by problems for several years . |
| 19 | The Blackbird Leys estate , together with others in Oxford , has been plagued by joyriders for more than a year . |
| 20 | But Craven is already in his eighties and has been plagued by ill-health for some time . |
| 21 | The model has been developed in collaboration with many people from all sorts of linguistic , cultural and professional backgrounds . |
| 22 | A HyperCard has been developed alongside part of this course . |
| 23 | ( 10 ) In any case where under the provisions of this Article the Directors may require a Transfer Notice to be given in respect of any Shares , if a Transfer Notice is not duly given within a period of two weeks of demand being made , a Transfer Notice shall be deemed to have been given in respect of such Shares at the expiration of the said period . |
| 24 | ( 10 ) In any case where under the provisions of this Article the Directors may require a Transfer Notice to be given in respect of any Shares , if a Transfer Notice is not duly given within a period of two weeks of demand being made , a Transfer Notice shall be deemed to have been given in respect of such Shares at the expiration of the said period . |
| 25 | Since the 1960s , when a number of new social movements — among them the student movement , various national and ethnic movements , and the women 's movement — became extremely active in political life , a great deal more attention has been given by sociologists to such forms of political action , which may be seen not only as constituting a basis or context for the development of more highly organized political activities , but also as political forces in their own right , existing alongside and sometimes in conflict with , established parties and pressure groups . |
| 26 | The UDR , which is predominantly Protestant , has traditionally been regarded with distrust by many nationalists . |
| 27 | A tiny teardrop in a shimmering sea at the foot of the Indian peninsula , Sri Lanka is an untamed isle which has been coveted by Westerners for many centuries . |
| 28 | Rank and file members have never been consulted on support for this organisation , maintained Mr Hunter and recent research amongst the membership showed a substantial hostility to NALGO 's continued affiliation to the NAC , which among its disgraceful policies , calls for the destruction of the disabled by resort to eugenic abortion . |
| 29 | How much money has been received by way of those orders from the seventh directive of the European Community 's shipbuilding intervention fund , and how much of that money will be used to purchase from United Kingdom manufacturers the goods and services required for the vessels ? |
| 30 | In fact , he 'd beaten the crap out of two bailiffs and then been caught in possession of several extremely valuable and extremely stolen computers . |