Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb base] been [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This is one of the well-established results which Morton ( 1969 ) used in his influential model of the lexicon , which suggests that words become finally recognised when sufficient " data " about them have been collected from the environment .
2 might have also mentioned that the number of scholarships and the funds available for them have been increased by 50 per cent and 500 per cent respectively .
3 I am particularly encouraged by the references to better facilities for pedestrians and cyclists , and to see that routes for them have been incorporated into all the major development sites where appropriate — and indeed given some prominence in the site maps .
4 Long service awards for trio of Terriers THREE part-time soldiers with nearly 70 years in uniform between them have been honoured for long service .
5 Once the elements in the topic framework and the interrelationships between them have been identified , the analyst has some basis for making judgements of relevance with regard to conversational contributions .
6 They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love .
7 Some of them have been getting strong criticism lately .
8 Now two of them have been convicted and sentenced to nearly 40 years in prison .
9 Getting prisoners to realise there are people worse off than themselves , is the main idea behind a 3-day event at Stoke Mandeville. 30 of them have been helping mentally handicapped people of all ages simply to enjoy themselves .
10 Some of them have been invited again and again to meet the London ambulance service for a briefing other than that which they get from the trade union .
11 Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built .
12 We 'll kee got to keep on getting it in proportion that ninety nine percent of them have been done right and that 's as to the seven hundred tests in out of four point five billion , is very small numbers indeed so the vast majority of women can be reassured .
13 However , the situation is complicated by there being more than 200 CF mutations and many of them have been detected in only 1 patient .
14 None of them have been tested on animals and all bottles are recyclable .
15 — their terror of having a foot chopped off for stealing ( some of them have been stealing )
16 Many of them have been printed on metal , as 2 in. square daguerreotypes .
17 A group of them have been rounded up at Gagosian from 14 January to 20 February .
18 Only three of them have been audited .
19 Most of them have been painted amid the West Riding fells that Mr Rocke has come to know so well .
20 A couple of them have been turned into erm movies with , with Paul Newman .
21 For , while these theories pursued distinctive concerns , ideas drawn from each of them have been blended by political theorists to create an identifiable body of ideas with certain distinctive characteristics .
22 So far 20 of them have been sent to Dounreay , with a further consignment due .
23 The duo 's first album has Irish sales of 27,000 so far , and is also to be released Japan , of all places , where Kieran 's songs are so popular that two of them have been recorded by a local singer — the lyrics translated into Japanese .
24 Actually they 're all er they are , nearly all of them have been broken so they 've obviously caught up with the list from the .
25 Although many of them have been answered already in an expanded form elsewhere in the book , we are including them again here in a more concise form for easy reference .
26 In peacetime two of them have been appointed Lords Lieutenant of English counties .
27 Around a third of them have been cautioned , fined and received points on their licences .
28 Yet Alice and Henry may feel that all the great stories have been told — all the utopian political experiments have come to nothing , even though most of them have been based on fables , myths , irrational dreams and lies .
29 A number of them have been denied the opportunity to collect the awards for nearly 50 years by the former communist regime .
30 Many of them have been slain , and those who still pursue their craft do so in large bands , which means for bad hunting , even while it keeps them alive . ’
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