Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] [coord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All pretence that the paper ever belonged to MacQuillan personally had been given up and the title transferred to a newly formed company within the MacQuillan empire . |
| 2 | Most of the notorious grade anomalies have been ironed out and the colour photos should whet people 's appetites . |
| 3 | Three weeks on , The Paradise Club proves the contrary : it is now looking less like a showroom model than a motor on which the clock has been wound back and the polish is beginning to fade . |
| 4 | The safety surface at the play area near his home in Kendal Drive , Great Sutton , had been torn up and the debris dumped around the climbing frame . |
| 5 | Once the required modifications to a package and its constituent modules have been carried out and the package has been submitted for approval , as described in the section on Modules , the DCs which were formerly active through the package change state to IN APPROVAL , thus preventing any further modifications to the modules while approval is in progress . |
| 6 | Over the past sixty years the buildings housing the scientific laboratories and teaching classrooms have been built up and the population of students and staff has grown until there are now nearly one thousand registered postgraduate students and over one thousand academic , research and support staff . |
| 7 | It is true that in the case of Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran Slade LJ attached considerable significance to the fact that the land there in question had been fenced off and the gate locked , but the position it seems to me is quite different in a metropolitan context such as one finds in Brighton . |
| 8 | push the bed , the bed had been pushed up and the stuff had tumbled and I just moved it all away |
| 9 | ‘ But it also meant a lot of brances had been washed down and the river has a lot of snags anyway . |
| 10 | Being expensive to maintain and run , they have been sold off and the incumbent now often finds himself in a small modern house , undoubtedly warmer and more convenient , but usually without character and , tellingly , without social status . |
| 11 | Since their manufacturing plant has been closed down and the building converted into the Templeton Business Centre . |
| 12 | Mr Rampton said the text showed that ‘ subterfuge ’ had been crossed out and the word ‘ silence ’ substituted . |
| 13 | Later on we found out the perimeter fence had been burnt down and the festival is banned here next year . |
| 14 | ‘ The kitchen drawer had been pulled out and the coal bucket had been overturned . |
| 15 | The Court had no knowledge of the case stated that had been struck out and the Crown 's case stated had duly proceeded . |
| 16 | Needless to say , thanks to an over-dependence on Hawkins 's remark , this has never been followed up and the harpsichord can no longer be identified . |
| 17 | Huge tents , open-fronted , had been put up and the Empress came in state with all her ladies , veiled to the eyes , and took her place on the throne . |
| 18 | In some specimens these spines may have been rubbed off but the area of attachment is usually visible . |
| 19 | However , the fail out alarm had been knocked out and the intercom was working badly . |
| 20 | The next day County issued a press release announcing that 48.9% of the shares had been taken up and the rest sold on the market . |
| 21 | The sleepers had been taken up and the flat , stony top of the ridge was so overgrown with blackberries and wild rose and hazelnut bushes that it was like pushing through a forgotten forest in a fairy tale . |
| 22 | The original loft had been taken down and the balustrade removed to the west end to form a gallery . |
| 23 | Two more of the nave lights had been switched on but the church was still dim compared with the harsh glare of the arc lights trained on the scene and it took him a minute to locate Father Barnes , a dark shape at the end of the first row of chairs under the pulpit . |
| 24 | In one corner of the rectangular office a television set had not been switched off and the title sequence of a forgotten film from the seventies flickered silently on the screen . |
| 25 | The debris from today 's accdient has now been cleared up and the road re-opened . |
| 26 | Harry has heard that today Aldenham is a school and , although Edwin 's fruit house still stands , its inner furnishings have been cleared out and the place is now used as a boat store . |
| 27 | The lake is on the edge of the National Park and , like many of the accessible Pyrenean lakes , part of the vast hydroelectric network of the region , which may mean that by late summer , if it has been dry down below , the waters have been piped off and the lake has shrunk . |