Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been stopped from coming into the Park because of people throwing paper and things on to the ground . ’ |
| 2 | Rain said : ‘ You were told by Edouard that I had been tricked into going to the museum . |
| 3 | There followed a frantic exchange of telegrams between Rangoon and Whitehall in which the Governor offered various solutions to the prevailing deadlock , finally coming up with the unexpected suggestion that a new coalition ministry was possible with Paw Tun , the last premier of Burma before the invasion ; U Saw , his predecessor as premier , an unscrupulous schemer who had been interned for dealing with the Japanese ; and Aung San , previously portrayed by Dorman-Smith as a murderer and an enemy . |
| 4 | ‘ Ever since I was a little boy , I 've been fascinated by acting in the cinema . |
| 5 | It is for this reason that Keynesian stabilization policies have been criticized for relying on the ‘ unexplained postulate ’ of wage rigidity and for assuming that the form of wage and price rigidity , the form of wage and price contracts , is exogenously given rather than determined by , amongst other things , the type of monetary and fiscal policies being carried out . |
| 6 | It has been developed by responding to the needs of 13,000 customers over 11 years . |
| 7 | The case has now been listed for hearing before the Commissioners . |
| 8 | As soon as Honor was old enough she had been dragooned into helping with the housework , preparing meals if cook were ill , as well as acting as her mother 's companion . |
| 9 | Beneath the shaft , there 's evidence of pollutants coming into contact underground streams , and cavers have now been forbidden from potholing near the area . |
| 10 | Beneath the shaft , there 's evidence of pollutants coming into contact underground streams , and cavers have now been forbidden from potholing near the area . |
| 11 | Beneath the shaft , there 's evidence of pollutants coming into contact underground streams , and cavers have now been forbidden from potholing near the area . |
| 12 | Beneath the shaft , there 's evidence of pollutants coming into contact underground streams , and cavers have now been forbidden from potholing near the area . |
| 13 | All information , matters and circumstances relating to the Business which are or would on reasonable enquiry be known to the Vendor and which are material to be known by a purchaser for value of the Business have been disclosed in writing to the Purchaser . |
| 14 | He would never forget how Samuel Reichmann and his partner , Emmanuel Hollander , had been fined for trading with the Germans by the Jewish Court of Tangier , and how one or both of them were on the blacklist of the British Consulate . |
| 15 | However , US relief workers who flew into Tehran on June 25 with medical supplies and food were reported to have been prevented from going to the affected provinces , while Kayhan , one of Iran 's largest-circulation newspapers , accused the USA of being mean with its aid and of hoping to reap diplomatic benefits by offering " one or two million dollars " . |
| 16 | Mr Howell said no legal opinion had been sought before entering into the transactions , although a council memo suggested that visits should be made to other local authorities . |
| 17 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |
| 18 | Auntie and friend had been saved by lying in the gutter outside with an eiderdown over their heads . |
| 19 | We might argue , albeit anachronistically , that best commercial practice could also have been adopted in accounting for the bridge . |
| 20 | Cresswell believed that the ‘ dole business ’ in the south was responsible ; Cooper claimed that on election day ‘ when children went to get free dinners they were told to tell their parents that if Cooper was returned no more free dinners would be given ’ ; Coath said that electors had been told that if they voted for him ‘ they would get no more doles ’ ; and Clare had been accused of voting against the guardians ' grant of coal to the unemployed ( SE 11 November 22 ) . |
| 21 | They have been accused of sledging in the World Cup — as if no team had been guilty of that before . |
| 22 | Arrested on 22 January , he had been accused of belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 23 | Through its 50 per cent stake in the El Cerrejon open cast coal mine in northern Colombia , Exxon has been accused of acquiescing in the pollution of the Wayuu people 's lands , resulting in some communities being uprooted . |
| 24 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |
| 25 | On the other hand , only 25 per cent of the Kosovo electorate turned out to vote , most of these being Serbs , following calls by ethnic Albanians for a total boycott , and Tanjug reported that in Kosovo some 400 polling stations had not been opened for voting by the local authorities . |
| 26 | Palace , FA Cup finalists in 1990 , currently lie second from bottom of the Premier League , and Coppell 's efforts have not been helped by sniping on the sidelines from his chairman Ron Noades . |
| 27 | The second equally obvious point is that , given the disparate analyses , a variety of prescriptions have been offered for dealing with the presumed causes of the nation 's ills . |
| 28 | Equally clay moulds may have been produced by carving in the negative directly onto the clay ; while carving a negative is difficult it was achieved with success at other times , for instance in the medieval period with stone moulds . |
| 29 | In much the same way computer simulation has been used in bioengineering in the design of prosthesis such as artificial limbs or hips . |
| 30 | Penwith and Kerrier hundreds were obviously poorer than the eastern parts of the shire ; a high proportion of men were taxed on wages who had not been thought worth mentioning in the earlier survey , many of them poor immigrants variously described as tinners or labourers . |