Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In principle the integration of primary and secondary care should also be enhanced ( although this could have been speeded up if the government had integrated FHSAs with DHAs from the beginning ) . |
| 2 | In fact , most researchers now believe that , on their own , the principles of learning theory are insufficient to account for the child 's mastery of language ; the bulk of the research on children 's language which has been carried out since the publication of Verbal Behaviour has been concerned with illuminating other processes which may be involved . |
| 3 | In the book world list of bestsellers are often challenged , usually by publishers or authors who feel they should be in the list but have been missed out because the sample of bookshops used for the research was biased against their particular type of book . |
| 4 | Previous requests have been turned down as the Transport Department felt the road did not meet criteria for imposing speed restrictions . |
| 5 | Earlier proposals for capital investment had been turned down because the line had been considered beyond further improvement . |
| 6 | Although the yolk sac will still be evident , there will not be a great deal of nutritious value left in it , as they will have been used up while the fry were in the pit developing . |
| 7 | Redpath had been called in because the body on the mud had been reported by P.C. Clifford from a land-based patrol car , but whether it was properly a land or a river matter was a moot point . |
| 8 | Patrick had been called in when the man had threatened his team with a baseball bat . |
| 9 | Days Mill , in its diminished form , has now been swallowed up as the town of Nailsworth has expanded around it . |
| 10 | The neo-classical Triumphal Arch , erected in 1794 , has been sealed off since the Berlin Wall was built in August , 1961 . |
| 11 | Corrugated shutters supposed to cover the unsightly skips in their cubby hole probably have n't been pulled down since the block was first occupied in the 1960s . |
| 12 | A local authority may not cause the child to be brought up in any religious persuasion other than the one in which he would have been brought up if the order had not been made ( s33(6) ( a ) ) . |
| 13 | If this resulted from a positive proposal to shut down the unit it could not lawfully have been brought about unless the district health authority had first consulted the community health council . |
| 14 | A chip pan had caught fire at a house in Sandsend Crescent , Hartlepool , on Sunday night , but the blaze had been put out when the firefighters arrived . |
| 15 | The year before , Maxims services had been tried out when the Ministry of the Court commissioned them to provide a banquet in the desert for a hundred people . |
| 16 | No sooner had they been fought off than the east monsoon brought a fresh invasion from the kingdoms of the Moluccas . |
| 17 | Black 's surf and Neil Young fascinations had been taken in when The Beach Boys ' ‘ I Know There 's An Answer ’ and ‘ Youngy 's Fuckin' ’ Up ’ played on the PA before his entrance . |
| 18 | Black 's surf and Neil Young fascinations had been taken in when The Beach Boys ' ‘ I Know There 's An Answer ’ and ‘ Youngy 's Fuckin' ’ Up ’ played on the PA before his entrance . |
| 19 | It was a repeat of the result of the first Fourball series at Muirfield village two years ago but only the second time that the Americans had been shut out since the fourball format was introduced at Atlanta in 1963 . |
| 20 | The cameraman 's attention seems to wander at times , the water noise and sound of the wind blowing on the microphone could have been toned down before the commentary was added and the conversion to the PAL system has not enhanced the colour and focus . |
| 21 | The old Theatre Royal in Dunlop Street soon followed , and it seemed that a new age had been ushered in as the gas light glinted on the crystal chandeliers and the illuminati of Glasgow clustered like moths about a bundle of bunsen-burners . |
| 22 | More than 100,000 vacuum cleaners have been snapped up since the promotion was launched last month . |