Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember seeing an early plan ( of the Bois de Boulogne ) on which the rivers and other parts of the park had been painted green , in watercolour , by the august consort of the Emperor . |
| 2 | This is not to deny that the opportunity has been made available to question these developments or to call a halt to them . |
| 3 | The CO had been given another obvious cue . |
| 4 | The aims of the Board have been to improve economic and social conditions as well as to increase the contribution of the region to the national economy . |
| 5 | ‘ The trick has been to maintain added value and justify those loans , ’ he says . |
| 6 | The money had been made available ; that was not the problem . |
| 7 | In a bid to keep the action secret , the case has been called Anonymous I v Anonymous II . |
| 8 | The case has been made that neutralisation is potentially attractive only to relatively minor states that by virtue of their strategic position or symbolic political value have become or threaten to become the focal points of contests for control or dominant influence between principal regional or global rivals . |
| 9 | The legislative purpose of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 , said Lord Scarman , was ‘ to sweep away not only the structure of industrial relations created by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 , which it was passed to repeal , but also the restraints of judicial review which the courts have been fashioning one way or another since the enactment of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 … |
| 10 | The Sons had been running short of funds . |
| 11 | The birds , the birds have been eating that . |
| 12 | Yet at 1130 hrs that morning a Corps Commander 's Conference had been held at 5 Corps HQ [ Kp 217 ] at which one of the main topics discussed had been " the Evacuation of the Cossacks to the Russians " and under this heading the decision had been taken that : " Divs will be prepared to shoot at Cossacks to enforce the evacuation plan . " |
| 13 | But already the decision has been given all party support in the House of Lords . |
| 14 | The prisoners have been held incommunicado for eighteen years . |
| 15 | The certificate has been granted interim VQ status by the Employment Department for funding and is available in LCCI approved Centres . |
| 16 | When all the nasties had been driven extinct , there was no way in which any of the nice strategies could be distinguished from Tit for Tat or from each other , because they all , being nice , simply played COOPERATE against each other . |
| 17 | Increased trade with third countries due to this effect and also the induced trade following from the increase in growth stimulated by the creating of the CU have been called external trade creation . |
| 18 | The essentials of the problem have been thoroughly analysed in the past few years ; the difficulty has been to obtain international agreement on solutions . |
| 19 | According to the BMJ article , the drug had been considered appropriate in some hospitals for occasional use on children . |
| 20 | The rules have been changed this season to give fans of Second Division sides the opportunity to see first-class opponents . |
| 21 | Seasonal conditions which inhibited or prevented travel on the roads have been made much of by historians , but the mushrooming growth in scheduled services after 1760 is testimony to a substantial improvement in this respect . |
| 22 | The building had been set alight by the killer . |
| 23 | I would agree with that , Chairman , but I think that it should be so considered that the building 's been built first . |
| 24 | I had a little snigger ; it had to be fully ten minutes since the last stroke of eleven , and the thunder had been murmuring dark warnings ever since . |
| 25 | The route had been reopened two weeks previously following an attack in January when two people were killed . |
| 26 | Maggie was tempted to that particular plot , for the story had been told that way so many times , and it is very hard , at moments of crisis , to re-cast the language and the shape of old stories . |
| 27 | And er the story 's been told many many times that Lloyd George advised them , I 've forgotten the name of the old man , but his wife was buried in the churchyard , and his family wanted to bury him next to her , but they wanted the nonconformist |
| 28 | N.W. the level had been driven 110 fathoms , and was almost to a sump sinking down from Taylor 's above . |
| 29 | Turning off from the north-south highway some twelve miles north of the Makaa , the track leading to the cabin had been made first by loggers and then improved by a quarrying company some forty years ago . |
| 30 | This idea of a running commentary is shown on pg 59 where he tells the reader what various characters of the play have been doing that day . |