Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Penelope , to tell Sophia that she had suddenly been asked to go to dinner at Rupert Stonebird 's that evening , but that she would n't have time to go home and change first . |
| 2 | The fact , however , that they have designed a language to fulfil these functions does not necessarily mean that these functions could not be fulfilled in other ways , nor that their language is intrinsically connected with them , nor that the language has necessarily been proven to succeed in achieving these ideals . |
| 3 | When she allowed him to ‘ catch ’ her , the two of them rolled about on a pile of hessian rope , screeching and laughing , until David reminded Cissie that she was ‘ a young lady of certain years ’ and that Richard should remember how he had only been allowed to come to the docks on the understanding that he be on his ‘ best behaviour ’ . |
| 4 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 5 | The tubercle bacillus has long been recognised to exist in various guises and seems able to exist interchangeably with and without its cell wall . |
| 6 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 7 | Women ratepayers , married or unmarried , had long been permitted to sit on urban and rural district councils and parish councils , so that during the late 1890s the number of women holding elected office in local government ( including Poor Law and school board work ) may well have exceeded the number holding office today . |
| 8 | In other words , money wages , interest rates and-tax payments have all been adjusted to allow for the 10 per cent rise in the average level of prices . |
| 9 | ‘ Some neighbours of ours in Scotland had unnaturally cosmopolitan views about the best way to bring up their daughters and they had all been sent to stay with family friends in both Paris and Florence when they were about seventeen . |
| 10 | 213 , 229 and 249 Squadrons had all been ordered to prepare for service in the Middle East , as was the special Fulmar flight which was to lead them , under the command of Lt.Cdr . |
| 11 | In the course of this study , our understanding of methane formation and transport ( particularly methane in groundwater ) , as well as our ability to model its movement mechanisms , have all been found lacking in some important way . |
| 12 | In the course of this study , our understanding of the sources of methane ( particularly of methane in groundwaters ) , our means of identifying these sources , and our ability to model the mechanisms of movement through the ground , have all been found lacking in some important way . |
| 13 | The great grandchildren of those who had been gulled by the infantile speculative ventures on offer during the manic South Sea Bubble phenomenon had obviously been conditioned to react in the same wild way . |
| 14 | I join my hon. Friend in deprecating the attacks made by the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) on Anne Parkinson and Sheila Taylor , who have rightly been appointed to serve on trusts . |
| 15 | However , he has not been selected to play in the Olympics this year . |
| 16 | Often , those who reach such a pitch have not been taught to deal with negative emotions . |
| 17 | You may then find yourself faced with a real battle if your dog has not been taught to co-operate in this fashion . |
| 18 | The reason for such a power is that contemporaneous reporting may prejudice either the proceedings in question ( as where the material — although heard in open court — has not been made known to the jury ) or some further proceedings which were pending or imminent at the time . |
| 19 | If no further offence is committed , the deterrent has worked , prison space has been saved , and the offender has not been made used to prison conditions . |
| 20 | The Africanists , whose ideological sympathies lie with the PAC , decided not to attend , asserting they had not been invited to serve on the convening committee . |
| 21 | In mid-July , in response to Uruguayan concerns that it had not been invited to participate in the talks , the Foreign Minister Domingo Cavallo stressed that Uruguay was welcome to participate in future discussions and was not excluded from the common market [ for previous Brazil , Uruguay , Argentina trilateral trade accords see pp. 35309 ; 36273 ] . |
| 22 | I understand that has not been invited to speak to the Committee yet but perhaps you might consider this at the time of him producing his annual report next April . |
| 23 | The DYP and the SHP both argued that the President had exceeded his constitutional powers in his policy-making ; some Cabinet ministers claimed in February 1991 that they had not been kept informed of Özal 's decision-making over coalition forces operating from Turkish bases . |
| 24 | The misuse of inside information has not been limited to misuse within financial conglomerates , but has been the centre of debate long before Big Bang . |
| 25 | He claimed the South African federation were not legitimately entitled to conduct the testing , and they had not been conducted according to DLV rules . |
| 26 | The Treasury , however , issued a statement saying that ‘ civil servants have not been asked to do anything they have not been asked to do under previous Governments of both parties , in accordance with the guidelines laid down by the Cabinet Office ’ . |
| 27 | Ameliaranne Stiggins , they suggest , has not been forced to take in washing to support the several children of her unfortunate failed early marriage — she did a New Horizons for Women course at her local community centre , passed her CQSW , and now works as a social worker in Tower Hamlets , where My Little Sister is her team leader . |
| 28 | What Peano and then the German mathematicians with whom he had previously not been acquainted did for him , was to suggest an astonishing idea . |
| 29 | Occasionally , the researcher may show that the common-sense theory of the manager has no empirical evidence to support it ; for example , the distance between a person 's eyes has not been found to correlate with criminality . |
| 30 | The other commonly assessed abilities have not been found to relate to managerial performance . |