Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 2 | Important details have been filled in by experiments in channel flow ; transition is promoted by a vibrating ribbon close to one wall whilst flow in the other half of the channel remains undisturbed , so there is close resemblance to a boundary layer . |
| 3 | He looked like a man who had just found that his tax returns had been filled in by Ken Dodd 's accountant , or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography . |
| 4 | But Rowland 's offer has been dismissed out of hand by Brent Walker and unless the bond holders , owed £102m in all , agree to the restructuring plan involving BW 's 47 bankers it would appear that the directors will have no other alternative but to put the company into receivership . |
| 5 | Perhaps for this reason above any other , aromatherapy has sometimes been dismissed out of hand by a few dyed-in-the-wool traditionalists because they believe a certain amount of discomfort must be felt if it 's to do us any good ! |
| 6 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 7 | So far the Yugoslav civil war has been waged mainly by activist minorities plus the professionals . |
| 8 | Punishment , by several indications swift and far-reaching , has been meted out for incompetence , not insubordination . |
| 9 | David Wilshire , MP for Spelthorne , told the House Mr Naqvi 's body had been flown in to Heathrow yesterday morning . |
| 10 | Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia . |
| 11 | Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia . |
| 12 | With al-Kassar 's blessing , he met the Magharians in Bern and Zurich to set up accounts for his family , each meeting taped and monitored by Coleman 's assistant Syrian George , who had been flown in from Cyprus for this purpose . |
| 13 | The bodies of eight of the nine airmen killed when their Hercules crashed last week have been flown back to RAF Lyneham . |
| 14 | THE body of a 53-year-old French Catholic priest who was murdered in Brazil on Christmas Eve has been flown back to France , amid a row between the church and police over the investigation of his death . |
| 15 | Yugoslav Macedonians had also been flown back from Athens under a new regulation demanding that they should possess US$1,000 on entry to Greece . |
| 16 | In the meantime , F/O Kohn had been flown back by ATA ‘ taxi ’ for another aircraft . |
| 17 | I 've been joined today by Professor Mike Springford , Professor of Experimental Physics at the University , and Chairman of the Services for Industry Coordinating Group , and John Golds , the University 's Industrial Liaison Officer . |
| 18 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 19 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 20 | ‘ And that would have been ironic , would n't it , now he 's been posted back to HQ . |
| 21 | The roar of a student movement had been heard again in China but there was little to gain , it was believed , by further mass demonstrations . |
| 22 | He found that the clause which had been heard immediately before testing was usually recalled completely accurately . |
| 23 | The audience of willing females had shouted the answer so loudly that it could probably have been heard back in Monte Samana . |
| 24 | This was a region of hamlets and little towns which , in the Middle Ages at least , had been inhabited largely by aliens imported by borough patrons . |
| 25 | The ability to bind multiple sites in the gene 62 promoter had been recognized previously by Wu and Wilcox ( 27 ) using a 140k region 2 domain fusion protein ; our analyses utilizing a non-fusion 140k DNA binding domain polypeptide ( VT2 ) confirm and extend this observation . |
| 26 | Just as Newton was not the first to notice that what goes up must come down , so there were many groups of phenomena where conservation had been recognized long before Helmholtz . |
| 27 | The Uthwatt Committee noted that there were only three cases in which betterment had actually been paid under the Planning Acts , and all these were before the 1932 Act introduced a provision for the deferment of payment until the increased value had actually been realised either by sale or lease or by change of use . |
| 28 | It seems likely that documents that have hitherto been limited largely to Board discussions will shortly be made more widely available to staff . |
| 29 | Other medieval settlements have been excavated throughout the country , although far fewer in Wales than in England , but the scope of their excavation has usually been limited both in size and duration . |
| 30 | Throughout the town fences and hedges have been ripped down by tenants who want to use their gardens as impromptu garages . |