Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] and the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buttons had been ripped off and the pockets torn open , but it kept me warm . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most of the notorious grade anomalies have been ironed out and the colour photos should whet people 's appetites . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Only the doctor who attended the last illness is required to certify when someone dies in the hospital and a post mortem has been carried out and the results known to the doctor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | push the bed , the bed had been pushed up and the stuff had tumbled and I just moved it all away |
| 11 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 12 | About 20 tapes have already been handed over and the police hoped there would be more . |
| 13 | ‘ But it also meant a lot of brances had been washed down and the river has a lot of snags anyway . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Since their manufacturing plant has been closed down and the building converted into the Templeton Business Centre . |
| 16 | Mr Rampton said the text showed that ‘ subterfuge ’ had been crossed out and the word ‘ silence ’ substituted . |
| 17 | Later on we found out the perimeter fence had been burnt down and the festival is banned here next year . |
| 18 | ‘ The kitchen drawer had been pulled out and the coal bucket had been overturned . |
| 19 | What had occurred was precisely the sort of ‘ semi-hysterical outburst of militancy ’ which McCann had criticised , and far from exposing and isolating the Nationalists , an informal united front had been struck up and the politicians were being allowed to clamber onto the DHAC 's bandwagon . |
| 20 | The Court had no knowledge of the case stated that had been struck out and the Crown 's case stated had duly proceeded . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Oh no , oh no , oh there were all v very few and far be there may have been local strikes but , such as one day er a grievance been put in and the men struck work just for it . |
| 24 | However , the fail out alarm had been knocked out and the intercom was working badly . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The original loft had been taken down and the balustrade removed to the west end to form a gallery . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ If the business had been shut down and the premises sold , what would have happened to you ? ’ |
| 30 | The debris from today 's accdient has now been cleared up and the road re-opened . |