Example sentences of "[noun sg] been [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ? |
| 2 | Not until recent months has a small ‘ fraud squad ’ of limited expertise been formed within the RUC and it has still to be asked to investigate something with potential political repercussions . |
| 3 | This has in large measure been achieved under the SGSA 1982 ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 4 | Too late , we realised that we were breaking a taboo of British publishing : never before ( it was thought ) had a penis of any kind been printed on the cover of a mainstream magazine . |
| 5 | How far had popular or institutional racism been transformed during the ‘ Thatcher decade ’ , and by what ? |
| 6 | In fact , had the cinema been invented at the time . |
| 7 | Scotland had of course been embroiled in the long-standing hostility between England and France before ; but not until the 1540s and 1550s did these powers actually try to determine the government and internal affairs of the country . |
| 8 | This girl had not of course been told of the scandal of the boss 's daughter , and she willingly went to the tall cabinet , found the card , read it to Alice who memorised it and ran out . |
| 9 | The glamorous side of aviation , flying , has of course been brought to the attention of the public over the years ; but what of the ladies who drove staff cars , rode despatch motor cycles and undertook much arduous work often under enemy fire ? |
| 10 | At the same time the rural interest had for the most part been neglected by the political powers-that-be . |
| 11 | West Germany 's support in 1952 and 1953 for the Political Community had in part been predicated on the idea that it could resolve the Saar issue : the territory was due to become a separate ‘ European ’ area . |
| 12 | Doubts about Communist motives in Spain would have been submerged under the general enthusiasm for the Republic , had not doubts about Soviet Communism been growing at the same time . |
| 13 | The income arising overseas with respect to the transfer of the asset would not be chargeable until the individual becomes ordinarily resident ( and resident ) in the United Kingdom and until such time as the Revenue can say that had the income been received by the individual in the United Kingdom it would have been chargeable to income tax . |
| 14 | Has any decision been made on the lines to be franchised ? |
| 15 | How has maths teaching been influenced by the introduction of calculators and computers ? |
| 16 | But has the heart of British industry been influenced by the hype and pressure to change ? |
| 17 | The ego is that part of the id which has through perception been modified by the external world . |
| 18 | It is strange therefore that the signal box instruments revealed it as clear , the signal must have been at green , or had a heavy weight been lying across the signal wire ? |
| 19 | ‘ Do you agree with us , ’ I am asked , ‘ or has your manliness been squashed by the hard feminists ? ’ |
| 20 | The Avila press believe , as do we , that had a proper search been conducted from the beginning , Jeremy would have been found alive . |
| 21 | There was until recently one situation in which the Monarch might be called upon to exercise a degree of discretion but even this has now in practice been removed as the result of party political developments that took place between 1957 and 1965 … |
| 22 | By 1475 , therefore , the Stanleys had in effect been confirmed as the leading royal agents in Lancashire . |
| 23 | By 1475 , therefore , the Stanleys had in effect been confirmed as the leading royal agents in Lancashire . |
| 24 | What has in effect been done with the Form Program is that , instead of the whole garment shape being entered as one program as is normally the case , the shape has been divided into sections that coincide with the stitch pattern lengths to be knitted with each worked out as a separate program . |
| 25 | Eurotunnel , which is already in default of its credit agreement with the banks , has in effect been given until the end of the year to settle its differences with the contractors to permit ‘ a viable financing strategy to be put in place ’ . |
| 26 | Great disorders had occurred among the children which would not have taken place had proper influence been exerted by the master . |
| 27 | How has the ‘ reasonable man ’ test been interpreted by the courts ? |
| 28 | As yet research is not available , nor has substantive work been done on the relative merits of different approaches to providing residential care for children with disabilities . |
| 29 | Have the procedures for ensuring a responsive bureaucracy been nullified by the power of the bureaucracy itself , so that the functionaries , rather than elected politicians ( who are no longer easily distinguishable from bureaucrats themselves ) , rule ? |
| 30 | In some companies this role has to a degree been formalised through the creation of audit committees made up of non-executives , their function being to review the effectiveness of the company 's auditing procedures and to liaise with the auditors . |