Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring . |
| 2 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 3 | The aircraft had been flown already that day , before refuelling for Herr Hess 's trip , and the motor was still warm . |
| 4 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 5 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 6 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 7 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 8 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 9 | The spotted mare came from Billy Smart 's and jumps a flaming hoop suspended at five feet , the chestnut in the horsebox is an ex-hunter who once belonged to the Duke of Beaufort , this one I 'm holding has been placed twice round Badminton , and Hoomey 's — ’ |
| 10 | The North Down skipper reports no new arrivals on the scene and , although Colin Mockford has left to join Holywood , the Harp Senior League champions will have a significant input as Paul Johnston and Kyle Thompson have both been helping out first XI coach Austin Hunter . |
| 11 | The amplifier will then have been adjusted so that zero field corresponds to zero output , the first step in achieving calibration . |
| 12 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |
| 13 | Tax sensitive decisions will have been explained thus improving client liaison . |
| 14 | At breakfast , I had been given freshly home-made bread , and I felt at peace with the world . |
| 15 | Again we have been given right royal treatment by a preserved railway , following our wonderful trip to the Llangollen last year . |
| 16 | It 's as if you had been given not one vote , but a fifth of a vote . |
| 17 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 18 | This debate , which essentially arises out of the Piper Alpha disaster , has been given even greater poignancy due to the reports that we have received of a major explosion at Grangemouth . |
| 19 | The attitudinal function has been given so much importance in past work on intonation that it will be discussed separately in this chapter , though it should eventually become clear that it overlaps considerably with the discourse function . |
| 20 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 21 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 22 | ‘ As rural communities have become increasingly marginal to national economies they have been given less political priority … |
| 23 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 24 | It is a pity but my father , Elfed , has been given very little credit in articles and books . |
| 25 | I think to be honest to you , the the have been given very little guidance , she does n't understand what 's supposed to happen |
| 26 | In fact , it would appear that other aspects of the new curriculum , and in particular the National Curriculum , have been given more immediate priority , although the National Curriculum Council has issued some guidance on multicultural education and linguistic diversity . |
| 27 | The events of 1909–11 have been given comparatively lengthy attention . |
| 28 | ‘ In the concreted yard at the back of the flats at Water Eaton Road stood a light-weight , rubber-wheeled , aluminium wheelbarrow which one of the maintenance men had been using earlier that day . |
| 29 | A police officer told the coroner he 'd found youths on the site at least six times since the fence had been erected earlier this year . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |