Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Access card had been found at a meeting of the Liberal Democrats for Eastern Region contracts , and , M S Sue Sutton , who was a candidate for |
| 2 | By the New Year comments were creeping into the film previews , the poetry section was expanding , and permanent offices had been found in Princedale Road , Notting Hill . |
| 3 | A Far Eastern bank 's personnel spokesman agreed that generally good candidates had been found but , in common with two anonymous respondents , he would not comment on specific firms and expressed a lack of confidence in many of them . |
| 4 | He explained that the young puffin had been found wandering in the village with a damaged wing , probably having been mauled by one of the many cats in the neighbourhood ( most of whom , incidentally , have six toes on each foot ) and he said that he would look after Eyvør for some weeks until it was well enough to be released . |
| 5 | Blood had been found on the clothing of Henry and Francis Tidbury . |
| 6 | The second key piece of information was that Angela Morgan 's car had been found in North Kensington , not far from her flat , and was now cordoned off and being crawled over inch by inch by a forensic team hastily dispatched by Davidson . |
| 7 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |
| 8 | Duncan had been asleep when the policeman burst into the room to give him the news that Leeming had been found . |
| 9 | During the OAS visit the dead bodies of three known Aristide supporters had been found in a Port-au-Prince morgue . |
| 10 | The operation proceeded methodically once the bushes had been cleared , though the spots where the mysterious fragments had been found were carefully tagged and covered with plastic . |
| 11 | Tradition , with her thousand tongues , said this barrow was the tomb of a Cornish King or Roman General , the Arch Druids of the day , an Irish Saint etc ; and , moreover , that vast treasures lay burried with the body and that in the early part of the century a golden boat had been found concealed below its surface . |
| 12 | First , a gap had been found at the bottom end of the market , conveying ( or transferring ) small terraced houses with local authority mortgages . |
| 13 | The missing reliquary , it seemed , was back where it belonged , just as a witness had been found who could and would confirm exactly how it had been made to disappear . |
| 14 | Mrs Fellows had been finding it increasingly difficult to cope with her usual activities due to her aching legs and tiredness . |
| 15 | Huy wondered , as he walked away , what Merymose would do if in that short time no killer had been found . |
| 16 | The missing equation had been found , the system had been closed and the Keynesian model at last formed a cohesive whole . |
| 17 | Having no evidence against the defendant , they falsely asserted that his fingerprint had been found in an incriminating place in order to elicit admissions from him . |
| 18 | When he published Parachute Padre , Fraser McLuskey mentioned the fact that to that day no trace had been found of the missing plane . |
| 19 | Ekeus confirmed on Oct. 22 in London that US-made nuclear weapons equipment had been found in Iraq . |
| 20 | Covering her impatience , she told him that some keys similar to MacQuillan 's desk keys had been found and Ruby had been trying to divine from them the identity of their owner . |
| 21 | There was , however , an insidious corollary to the belief that God might intervene to save His chosen people and prolong the lives of deserving individuals ; it was that where He did not intervene to save life , those who lost their lives had been found unworthy . |
| 22 | The minimum this required was that Galileo should be warned that a heliostatic universe had been found formally heretical and that he must no longer hold or defend it . |
| 23 | They were in the middle of the case , working in a building where bloodstained clothing had been found , and where two people whom the police had questioned about a missing boy had more than passing contact , yet they knew less than anyone . |
| 24 | As lack of discipline at home had been found to be important to later sociopathy , she recommended improved discipline at school for such at-risk youngsters : a more vigorous role in preventing truancy , supervision for completion of assignments , controlled use of leisure time and so on . |
| 25 | A car matching police descriptions had been found in Jedforest rugby club car park . |
| 26 | It answered the question he had asked himself and told him that the bones of a very young child had been found as well as those of a young woman . |
| 27 | A very early one is by Donald Munro , Dean of the Isles , who travelled through them and in 1594 published a " Description of the Western Isles " which is almost literally just that , with a full list of the small islands round the coast , but an edition by R. W. Munro in 1961 after a further manuscript had been found gives a description of Finlaggan , a photograph not previously published and a list of those who constituted the council of the Lords of the Isles . |
| 28 | A very early one is by Donald Munro , Dean of the Isles , who travelled through them and in 1594 published a " Description of the Western Isles " which is almost literally just that , with a full list of the small islands round the coast , but an edition by R. W. Munro in 1961 after a further manuscript had been found gives a description of Finlaggan , a photograph not previously published and a list of those who constituted the council of the Lords of the Isles . |
| 29 | In June 1989 , Neville Hodgkinson and Peter Gillman of the Sunday Times reported that Clive Ahrens had been found to have aluminium in his hip bone , laid down as a band ( as is common in people living in areas of high lead in water ) . |
| 30 | Before they left the Irish capital , they told how pure joy replaced unbearable anguish when they learned their little girl had been found safe . |