Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent Chinese assurance on ballistic missile sales to Middle Eastern countries , accreditation for a Voice of America journalist , and discussions of a possible resumption of the Fulbright academic exchange programme , have been dismissed here as inadequate . |
| 2 | It had been hoped to have the English version ready for publication by Easter this year but it had been delayed principally because of objections to the use ‘ inclusive language ’ . |
| 3 | Confined to West Africa , these species of shrews have been persecuted locally because of their strange internal armour . |
| 4 | It would seem that Parliament 's legal power has been limited only if : ( a ) community law is seen as a higher system of law ; and ( b ) our courts are willing to uphold the supremacy of community law . |
| 5 | The letter had been ripped open so Dexter drew out the note within , a sheet torn from a reporter 's notebook . |
| 6 | His speech of 1 November 1962 made references to ’ some differences ' between the two governments , but it was asserted that ‘ Nothing shall come between the Soviet Union and Cuba ’ , and the emphasis was on the Soviet arms which had not been withdrawn rather than on the missiles which had ( Cuba Socialista , no. 16 , Dec. 1962 , pp. 28–30 , in Clissold : 1970 , p. 276 ) . |
| 7 | These advances in molecular genetics mean that by using a combination of haplotype and mutation analysis prenatal diagnosis is now possible in the great majority of couples who already have a child with phenylketonuria , although this has been undertaken infrequently because paediatricians and parents see early treated children as ‘ healthy . ’ |
| 8 | It had been placed there when Mr Blakey had finished in the garden . |
| 9 | The existence of ( b ) and ( c ) he thought proved by the presence of some biblical texts where the literal sense seemed absurd or contradictory ; such texts must have been placed there as signposts to a spiritual allegorical exegesis . |
| 10 | It might even be possible to create a ‘ place in the sun ’ , where car parking has been placed underground because a place in the sun for townsfolk is more important than a place in the sun for cars ( e ) . |
| 11 | Erm it has been altered somewhat since the original er railway days , but nevertheless it retains quite a bit of the old character erm and er the high pitched roofs erm and the . |
| 12 | He had pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges which each carried maximum sentences of one year in prison and $100,000 in fines , but he had been treated leniently because he had co-operated with independent prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh , whose Iran-contra investigation was in its final stages . |
| 13 | The decision was that it was unlawful direct discrimination because Mr James had been treated differently than if he had been a woman . |
| 14 | may have been enrolled more than once for the module |
| 15 | This research has been criticized partly because it is American evidence and partly because the American rates were slashed by 23% over three years with the top personal rate being reduced from 70 to 50% whilst the UK moved from 60 to 40% in just one year . |
| 16 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 17 | The citation process has not been explained simply because it has been described . |
| 18 | I retrieved the case notes for as many patients as possible who had been registered locally as having died of asthma during 1980–9 ( 21 case notes out of 40 in total ) . |
| 19 | One might suggest that the support service which the team gives to families has been developed largely because it was an " unclaimed " service area , as it were . |
| 20 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 21 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 22 | well said it does n't look as if it 's been painted once since it was built ! |
| 23 | Mains supplies of potable water have been regarded generally as of reasonably high standard , apart from the suspended matter in some and the hardness of others . |
| 24 | Since then , the forces of continental drift have continued to pull the two continents apart , widening the Atlantic , but the habit of returning to the sea each year to spawn has never been broken even though it now involves such an immense journey . |
| 25 | Half of one ear was missing , and his nose had obviously been broken more than a few times . |
| 26 | Rule 7(6) of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 has been amended so as to allow solicitors to go into partnership with registered foreign lawyers . |
| 27 | Black holes would have been formed only if the early universe had not been perfectly smooth and uniform , because only a small region that was denser than average could be compressed in this way to form a black hole . |
| 28 | Since the findings of the surveys described in Chapter 6 , the message promoting the lobon-gur solution had been revised so as to include the four different recognised types of diarrhoea and the use of refined sugar as a substitute for gur when the latter was unavailable . |
| 29 | The latest and most thorough had been completed just before I took over the chairman-ship . |
| 30 | Within another two minutes Simmons was two-thirds towards completing his hat trick after he outpaced all six defenders and side-footed the ball past goalkeeper Slack , who had been caught unawares as at the time he was trying to impress a group of young girls in the crowd by swinging on the crossbar . |