Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Saddam Hussein marched into Kuwait , more that nine hundred Briton , most of the women , have either escaped or been flown out of the Gulf . |
| 2 | An NRA spokesman said the spillage had been traced back to the Lartington Treatment Works , where there had been no threat to drinking water . |
| 3 | The issue has been referred back to the MacLeod Estates , from whom a reply is awaited . |
| 4 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
| 5 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
| 6 | And she has now been booted out of the Miss Italy contest after admitting that she underwent a sex-change operation last year . |
| 7 | Recent surveys have been carried out in the United States by Hardesty ( 1978 ) and in the UK by Malley and Moys ( 1982 ) . |
| 8 | Much of the detailed analysis of the role of pressure groups in the policy-making process has been carried out in the United States . |
| 9 | Although little detailed research has been carried out in the UK on the effects of financial innovation and structural change upon the appropriate conduct of monetary control , it appears that there is a consensus opinion that the effects of financial change necessitate that monetary policy be conducted in a discretionary manner . |
| 10 | However , relatively little detailed exploration , especially drilling , has been carried out in the Lake District or Snowdonia . |
| 11 | In a somewhat terse paper — it being considered that the more substantial analysis of principles had been carried out in the HMI document A View of the Curriculum — it was maintained that throughout the period of compulsory schooling , from 5–16 , all pupils should undertake study in English , mathematics , science , religious education , and physical education . |
| 12 | Further field investigations have been carried out in the Orissa region of India . |
| 13 | Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force . |
| 14 | A reconnaissance stream sediment survey has been carried out by the MRP over much of the orefield ( MRP 5 ) . |
| 15 | Perhaps the most sustained research into speech recognition has been carried out by the IBM speech group which started work on the production of a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system in 1972 . |
| 16 | The groundwork had been carried out by the Southampton Special Unit and Vigilant and Venturous had been deployed to cover the approaches to the Solent and Poole Harbour . |
| 17 | In Rome the work has been carried out by the Istituto Centrale del Restauro . |
| 18 | Yet we also have the example of Robert Ferguson , the Whig plotter who had been mixed up in the Rye House intrigues and Monmouth 's Rebellion . |
| 19 | In the course of completing the resurvey of the Coventry district , a comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area by way of experiment . |
| 20 | A comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area , by way of experiment , so that thematic maps can be produced when required , as well as a more advanced three-dimensional depiction of geological structure . |
| 21 | ‘ If this issue had been built up by the NFU and sufficient Tory MPs had rebelled we could have reversed the cuts but there seemed to be little fight from Edinburgh . |
| 22 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |
| 23 | PAUL MERSON may have been bombed out of the Arsenal team by George Graham for being overweight . |
| 24 | Television coverage had been scooped up by the BBC , who had realised the dramatic possibilities of the occasion . |
| 25 | The mere wear-and-tear of the prolonged firing contributed to German losses ; after superhuman efforts , one of the monster 420s had been moved up to the Bois des Fosses in order to knock out Fort Souville , but on the third shot a shell exploded in the worn barrel , killing almost the entire crew . |
| 26 | Proposals for bilateral agreements , put forward by both these countries , have been turned down by the UK Department of the Environment on the grounds that Britain , along with other European Community countries , is aiming to achieve self-sufficiency in waste disposal . |
| 27 | A request from Shetland farmers to ban all imports of dairy cattle to save their stocks from BSE infection has been turned down by the Shetland Island Council . |
| 28 | Manager ‘ Ila Tapueluelu , however , disclosed that five younger players had been drafted in for the Fiji event after a disappointing showing in a tournament in Western Samoa . |
| 29 | By the middle of the eighteenth century alluvial workings had been opened up in the Ural mountains . |
| 30 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |