Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just as well Paul did n't go with him , cos Paul would 've been singled out as well . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A purpose will be to reassess the value of our penal system as it has been built up until now — but much more than that . |
| 4 | The television presenter Johnny Morris , famous for his Animal Magic series , has been entertaining more than a thousand children at a wildlife park in the Cotswolds . |
| 5 | Humankind , to summarise , has been moving shoddywards since about 480 BC , when Confucius , Buddha , the Second Isaiah and Pythagoras died : to be succeeded , sages of wisdom and toleration that they were , by a return to superstition not unlike the reactions that tragically followed the Enlightenment or Victorian rationalism . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In recent years the H.T. has been grown more than any other , both as bush and standard , and such is the sublime beauty of the opening bud that H.T.s invariably take all the prizes at the shows . |
| 9 | On the contrary , it has been done simply because , as a language-orientated activity , the concern with linguistic form and function has been uppermost . |
| 10 | It has been done repeatedly since and very likely , in some corner of the ocean , an Arab dhow is being undergirded at this moment . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A search for what was thought to be a body has been called off after police found an aircraft cargo net . |
| 14 | Alan McLeary 's proposed £400,000 transfer to Wimbledon following a six-match loan period has been called off because Dons manager Joe Kinnear has been told he must sell first . |
| 15 | We know now from the Portuguese Government that that delegation has been called off because of the recent tragic events in East Timor . |
| 16 | But some pantomime has been called off because Snow White |
| 17 | Inspector Neville Oughtibridge , of Wakefield police , said : ‘ The job of policing the town centre has been made easier because there 's just not the amount of money around there used to be . |
| 18 | It seems to me that that structural advance has been made mainly because of the breakdown of the big integrated production monopolies of the BBC and ITV , with their teams , solid structure and union agreements about their size . |
| 19 | In many cases , these are the earliest references to trading at the places concerned ; and in some , the record has been made precisely because the king is granting the right to run a market . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It concluded that Kennedy was shot by Oswald acting alone , a verdict which has been questioned ever since by those believing that he must have been acting as part of a conspiracy . |
| 22 | One exception has been Dean Hodgson , a neat and conscientious opener who has been picking up where he left off the season before last . |
| 23 | It has been expanding ever since those 70s feminists took to wearing boiler suits to prove they did n't care about being attractive to men . |
| 24 | What do I say when I visit an old Cockney lady with a fractured leg who has been sent home because the orthopaedic surgeons need her bed for the daily influx of trauma , but who ca n't stand unaided and who lives alone ? |
| 25 | This section has been applied so as to cover the administration of a drug which causes harm to the victim 's metabolism by overstimulation , if D 's motive for this is malevolent rather than benevolent . |
| 26 | It has been shut down since the early 1970 's and now functions as a radar station known as RAF Portreath . |
| 27 | People have died in such circumstances where a dog has leapt into the sea , encountered difficulties and then its owner has been swept away while trying to rescue their pet . |
| 28 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 29 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 30 | It 's beginning to feel like an age old question , or certainly one that has been hanging around since the dark ages . |