Example sentences of "[been] [verb] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the patient has been seeing a physiotherapist privately , it still may be necessary to involve a second , specialist physiotherapist , if the patient stops progressing . |
| 2 | Wildlife enthusiasts have been enjoying a treat tonight . |
| 3 | On Nov. 16 he testified before a parliamentary committee that orders had been given a month previously to freeze " Operation Gladio " . |
| 4 | They had been given a meal there but had refused to stay overnight . |
| 5 | All endangered big game has been given a value so that poachers can be forced to pay compensation as well as serving up to six years in prison for killing the animals . |
| 6 | She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms . |
| 7 | The school librarians who have acquired microcomputers have either produced reports on particular projects and gained part-time access to a microcomputer for that project , but have subsequently been given a microcomputer permanently in the library or , as in the case of St Modan 's High School ( see Examples ) have produced reports on the acquisition of a microcomputer for a range of purposes . |
| 8 | Construction work had been halted a week earlier in line with EC demands . |
| 9 | Incumbent Saatchi & Saatchi has been using a 90-second ad with the key line ‘ For him , for her , forever … |
| 10 | . You 've been using a brush instead of a spatula for spreading glue . |
| 11 | Moderator I , one two eight six , I wondered whether a word from south of the border might be in order because in recent years in the Church of England we 've been busy discussing the theological foundations and the practical discipline in respect of several matters which fall under the general heading of Christian initiation and indeed we have been experimenting a bit here and there . |
| 12 | Eight months later , in May 1989 , Mr Ethrington joined the management buyout team , which had been formed a year earlier . |
| 13 | When this collapsed in 1878 , he got a post as a junior clerk with the Distillers Company Limited , which had been formed a year earlier by six of the largest Lowland patent distillers to rationalize production . |
| 14 | The latter view might have been applauded a year previously : after Tiananmen , it sounded merely cynical . |
| 15 | Although the SSC , like most things , could probably have been designed a bit better and made to cost a bit less , physics dictates its overall scale . |
| 16 | In the 1980s , the tendency for political power to be concentrated at the centre has been carried a stage further by a prime minister sufficiently determined and resourceful to achieve a high level of dominance over her cabinet colleagues . |
| 17 | It is as though the programme of Galileo and Locke , which involved discarding secondary qualities ( colour , taste , etc. ) in favour of primary qualities ( the quantities of classical mechanics ) , had been carried a stage further and these primary qualities had themselves become secondary to the property of potentia in which they all lay latent . |
| 18 | The process of simplification has now been carried a stage further by section 2 of the Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 which abolishes detinue and provides that conversion now also covers the only case that was probably formerly the exclusive province of detinue — i. e . |
| 19 | This attempt to ‘ define ’ by inclusions has been carried a stage further by the Financial Services Act which , for its purposes , employs both inclusions and exclusions . |
| 20 | No , that would be I do n't really think of that when I , I do n't think I do n't think anybody went to see her , but I think she 'd been done a bit better . |
| 21 | ‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’ |
| 22 | Er I 've been doing a , been writing a book now , for about ten years . |
| 23 | Whereas Nigeria followed the classic pattern of building large plants with the latest equipment , and then suffering from overcapacity , Togo has been operating a mini-mill profitably for some years and has begun to export to neighbouring countries , even those with large , underused plants of their own . |
| 24 | Getting into your loft quickly and safely has been made a lot easier with the unique collection of aluminium and wooden ladders and staircases available from the Loft Shop . |
| 25 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 26 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |
| 27 | ‘ He had been acting a bit strangely recently . ’ |
| 28 | I know they 've been pulling a lot out |
| 29 | Judging from the number of Londoners who ended by having to pay more than they were initially assessed for , this refrain could have been sung a bit too often to be convincing . |
| 30 | She walked on , wondering whose decision it had been to buy a retirement home in such an isolated spot . |