Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been developed by a farmer 's wife . |
| 2 | The Social Work ( Scotland ) Act of 1968 states that ‘ where a child has been notified that his case has been referred to a children 's hearing , he shall be under an obligation to attend that hearing in accordance with the notification , . |
| 3 | He had been caught in a women 's magazine praising Mrs Thatcher . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't ever follow me again , Peter , ’ she said , totally unexpectedly ; she had n't even looked his way , and he felt as if he 'd been caught in a searchlight 's beam in the middle of some guilty act . |
| 5 | The pair had been trapped in an upstairs ' room until firefighters smashed their way in through a window and led them to safety down a ladder . |
| 6 | A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association . |
| 7 | Her body had been sewn in a stag 's skin and the stone coffin sealed with lead and iron and bound with a heavy chain . |
| 8 | Well it 's been gone , it 's been built for a year er er er er it 's been up for ages has n't it ? |
| 9 | If public medical statements have been made about a man 's deleterious effect on his son 's psyche there is bound to be anxiety and embarrassment attendant on their meeting . |
| 10 | Nicolo shifted unhappily in the little gilt chair that had certainly not been made for a man 's body . |
| 11 | A bad debt provision has been made against a customer 's debt where insolvency proceedings have recently commenced . |
| 12 | my Lord I think so yes , erm if I can just say this I understand on the structures that a letter has been , er , an offer has been made by a letter erm of the structure and obviously there would be and that , that was done I think some time ago , erm and it might be my Lord how to what sort of structure is , but , but , erm I think from our side , erm we , we 've taken the first step and we 're going |
| 13 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 14 | It was only a beard — true enough — but it had been connected to a man 's face for many many years . |
| 15 | Volk & Welt , one of the few major publishers of the former East Germany still on the books of the Treuhand , has finally been privatised in a token DM1 buyout led by its managing director Dietrich Simon . |
| 16 | had they been suing then that would of been met with a defence er counter claim settle and so on , erm and that would of been the answer that you ca n't enforce the claim under clause nine because it 's void , we did n't , we therefore ca n't , there 's no duty to keep the agent in funds , sue it to clause nine , it been a void clause |
| 17 | However , the ground sought had already been promised for a schoolmaster 's residence . |
| 18 | Before the Christmas break , we fitted in two more FIS downhills at Altenmarkt , on a course which had been used for a women 's world cup . |
| 19 | The fact that the car had been sold with a manufacturer 's warranty was irrelevant . |
| 20 | erm , this is a , a case which er deals with er the issue of the suspension of a measure based upon community law , whether a national court , when a measure has been based upon community law has power to suspend it , now my Lord the er issue in was erm involved er the er decision of er the German government er to give effect to er a community regulation in the sugar sector which er required er that levies should be er obtained from sugar companies , so it was a very direct er implementation of community law erm in that sense different to the matter before your Lordship , but we rely on it by analogy and in , in this case my Lord er you will see it 's in the supplementary bundle of authorities , the extra bundle because , before your Lordship , in that case your Lordship will see er between paragraphs fifteen and thirty three er the er European court indicating that where a measure that has been based upon a community er , er law is challenged before a national court that the national court er should er only er engage in the er , er suspension of such a measure , erm if there is serious doubt er this is erm my Lord er at er paragraph twenty three of the case er and we say that er if you look at the criterions they are not dissimilar from those that have been adopted by the House of Lords as a matter of English law in the case |
| 21 | TAX incentives encouraging businesses to make donations to schools have been condemned by a teachers ' leader . |
| 22 | He studied her a moment , remembering what her cousin , Yin Wu Tsai had said : that she had been born with a woman 's body and yet a man 's soul . |
| 23 | The report , which was subsequently sent out to subscribers , has been compared to an auctioneer 's catalogue , and dismissed as uninformative and useless . |
| 24 | And her body , bearing one tiny mark , had been found with a bird 's head , near the barrow . |
| 25 | They said they had been abandoned during a row en route to London . |
| 26 | Sometimes small bungalows have been built in the grounds of residential homes , in other developments they have been linked to a warden 's bungalow by means of alarm bells . |
| 27 | He is consumed by the challenge of the world 's highest peaks , but this has been accompanied by a geographer 's fascination with visiting new places : a curiosity about the metaphysical undercurrents that accompany great risk ; a need to plumb the capabilities of mind and body and a corresponding empathy with mountain peoples who confront such tests in their everyday struggle with life . |
| 28 | The system has a 20,000-word vocabulary and can take dictation at 70 words per minute with 97% accuracy , once it has been trained to a user 's pronunciation . |
| 29 | The system has a 20,000-word vocabulary and can take dictation at 70 words per minute with 97% accuracy , once it has been trained to a user 's pronunciation . |
| 30 | Some of he old outhouses have been converted into a Wheelwright 's workshop , a Blacksmith 's forget and a Plumber/Tinsmith 's workshop . |