Example sentences of "[noun sg] [been] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An innkeeper has a lien for his charges upon the traveller 's goods brought to the inn , and , contrary to the usual rule , has by statute been given a power of sale over such goods . |
| 2 | Discourse analysts have for over a decade been probing the properties of what has come to be called the conversational ‘ turn ’ . |
| 3 | Since then , AT&T has been urging the FCC not to grant BT a licence unless the gesture is reciprocated ; its British rival had until this week been taking a similar line . |
| 4 | It was his luck that the Colonel had that morning been sent a report prepared by the Ministry of Transport and Aviation in conjunction with the Ministry of Finance . |
| 5 | He 's conscious that safety-critical items such as tyres and brakes must n't be skimped on , but he 's not overly concerned about sticking to the recommended 6000-mile service schedule ; so far the Sierra has on average been serviced every 13,500 miles and has never seen the inside of a Ford dealer 's workshop . |
| 6 | I want a fag that 's no' been given a doin' . ’ |
| 7 | Did you break in here , too , or has the back door been unlocked the whole time ? ’ |
| 8 | Nevertheless , they did not forget the main object of their expedition and kept a careful record of all the plants found , though they commented that had the journey been made a month or two sooner , they would have found a greater number of rarities . |
| 9 | Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010 . |
| 10 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 11 | The second remarkable event was Henry 's marriage in May 1152 to another great heiress — not for nothing has the twelfth century been called the " Century of Heiresses " . |
| 12 | And just how long had Janine been beating the child ? |
| 13 | James had for some time been accepting an annual pension from Elizabeth in return for promises of assistance against foreign invaders — meaning , at this period , Spain — and on the tacit understanding that he would in no way connive at his mother 's return to Scotland . |
| 14 | Other satellite services have for some time been offering a kind of one-sided videoconferencing facility . |
| 15 | It has for some time been considered a most urgent need to extricate mentally handicapped children from long-stay hospitals and stop their admission to them , and there has , as a result , been a sharp fall in the numbers of mentally handicapped children in hospitals . |
| 16 | Picasso had , it is true , for some time been frequenting the different galleries of the Louvre . |
| 17 | The AHA had in fact been debating the issue of the future of the hospital for some years . |
| 18 | Bruce had in fact been contemplating a withdrawal to the hills rather than risk a head-on clash with forces which so visibly outnumbered his own . |