Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 2 | But , besides this we found those who had not been stopped etc. at all still reflected the overall differences between races — Blacks being least favourable , Asians most favourable , with Whites being sometimes closer to Blacks and sometimes closer to Asians . |
| 3 | The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which . |
| 4 | During the long night , the car would have been joined silently by another . |
| 5 | And match referee Deryck Murray remains baffled as to why his report has been tucked away in some International Cricket Council file . |
| 6 | ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time . |
| 7 | The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east . |
| 8 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 10 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 11 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 12 | Four big slabs of grey-green stone formed the opening of a drain culvert beside the post , and the bicycle had been placed squarely across this . |
| 13 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 14 | So dear Dr. Godman I feel I have been treated badly in this case and would be grateful if you would pursue this matter further . |
| 15 | The potential dangers of the unthinking use of league tables , however , as currently presented have been pointed out by several authors . |
| 16 | The existence of powerless groups has been highlighted even by those who extol the virtues of the Japanese commitment to consensus . |
| 17 | Although the modules have been developed primarily for those in adult basic education , they are suited to a wide range of client groups . |
| 18 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 19 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 20 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 21 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 22 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
| 23 | Diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya had been broken off since that year . |
| 24 | While the proposal was known to have been received enthusiastically by some EC countries , including Portugal and Greece , others like France opposed a CSCM which would include the Middle East , preferring to limit it to the western Mediterranean . |
| 25 | Elected as President in 1987 amid controversy over his war record while serving in the German Army , Waldheim had not been received officially by any Western country , and the World Jewish Congress criticized Kohl for his " shocking lack of moral sensitivity " in breaching this de facto Western diplomatic boycott . |
| 26 | Earlier forecasts , suggesting that the world 's population would stabilize at about 10,200 million by 2085 , had been revised upwards with some experts predicting that that total could be reached as early as 2060 . |
| 27 | She had assumed , when she was told that Mills ' murder had been checked thoroughly for any spying connections , that the enquiry had at least had the semblance of efficiency , if not diligence . |
| 28 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
| 29 | There are several ways in which assistance might be available to people who have been caught up in some of those unfortunate schemes . |
| 30 | Since the seventeenth century we seem to have been caught up in this vicious cycle , alternatively applying the model of capitalist society to the animal kingdom , then reapplying this bourgeoisified animal kingdom to the interpretation of society . |