Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it has been altered somewhat since the original er railway days , but nevertheless it retains quite a bit of the old character erm and er the high pitched roofs erm and the . |
| 2 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 3 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 4 | Black holes would have been formed only if the early universe had not been perfectly smooth and uniform , because only a small region that was denser than average could be compressed in this way to form a black hole . |
| 5 | The mothers had been interviewed periodically since the children were two or three months old about such characteristics as the child 's activity level , adaptability , distractability , persistence and quality of mood . |
| 6 | This last item had caused them some concern when the bag had been unzipped just after the plane landed , but Grandson Richard had thrust the book among the papers without glancing inside . |
| 7 | THE RE-OPENING of the line to Welshpool in 1981 was an achievement which had been awaited ever since the line was taken over in 1960 . |
| 8 | That could have been done anyway if the disposition were in a will , but it may well be that it is in a codicil or other document to which the nuncupatio did not apply . |
| 9 | The stable block had been built later than the house , in the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Denning J. hints that Foakes v. Beer ( 1884 ) might have been decided differently if the fusion of law and equity by the Judicature Acts 1873–1875 had been considered . |
| 11 | In R. v. Monopolies and Mergers Commission , ex parte Argyll Group plc Lord Donaldson MR said that courts must show ‘ a proper awareness of the needs of public administration ’ : a court should be wary of striking down a decision if it is clear that the same decision would have been made even if the decision-maker had not acted unlawfully ; or if doing so would unduly delay the conduct of government business ; or if members of the public are likely already to have relied on the challenged decision ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's motivation in making the application was improper or vexatious or frivolous . |
| 12 | In many cases , these are the earliest references to trading at the places concerned ; and in some , the record has been made precisely because the king is granting the right to run a market . |
| 13 | Substantial changes to the original draft of the bill , notably the extension of all its provisions to cover Pomaks , had been secured partly as the result of agitation by several thousand Turks and Pomaks who demonstrated outside the National Assembly during the March 5 session . |
| 14 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 15 | However , this procedure was not explicit to the readership , and only by adding an acknowledgement to the article could we make clear that the article had not been accepted just because the editor was an author . |
| 16 | The situation had been transformed radically since the mid eighteenth century when Nonconformist groups were relatively small and few in number . |
| 17 | The history of St Mary 's and that of the town over which it presides have been bound together since the Middle Ages , and the church 's sober , dignified presence was to form part of Coleridge 's earliest recollections of childhood . |
| 18 | Since it had not been set aside before the pawnbroker took the ring , the pawnbroker acquired good title to the ring . |
| 19 | Lamarckism was the only morally acceptable theory of evolution , and Darwin was all the more to blame because he had concealed the fact that better mechanisms of evolution than his own had been proposed long before the Origin of Species was published . |
| 20 | The kidney transplant waiting list could have been reduced remarkably if the Church of Scotland had done their job properly . |
| 21 | Use of pesticides on the cotton crops of the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan has been reduced sharply since the mid-1970s , as evidence of disastrous environmental damage has mounted . |
| 22 | Profitability of successful innovations has , however , typically been competed away as the product becomes a simple standardised product or " commodity " . |
| 23 | For a start , French three-month interest rates have been cut sharply since the new government arrived in March , as tension over the franc has eased . |
| 24 | He bent to get a closer look at one drawing that had been fixed lower than the others , as if the teacher had somehow tried to segregate it off and pretend that it was n't part of the display . |
| 25 | Others extended the land all the way across the Atlantic to explain how some species came to be resident in both North America and Europe , openly appealing to the legend of Atlantis to support this hypothesis , despite the fact that the land-bridge would have been submerged long before the human race appeared . |
| 26 | Basic English has been criticised particularly because the limited vocabulary leads to circumlocution in order to express often quite simple concepts . |
| 27 | There was some feeling that Beijing had been left behind while the rest of the country had marched for democracy . |
| 28 | It is , however , more likely that he had accompanied the king to Nottingham and had then , like the Woodvilles , been sent away as the news grew more threatening . |
| 29 | It is , however , more likely that he had accompanied the king to Nottingham and had then , like the Woodvilles , been sent away as the news grew more threatening . |
| 30 | What do I say when I visit an old Cockney lady with a fractured leg who has been sent home because the orthopaedic surgeons need her bed for the daily influx of trauma , but who ca n't stand unaided and who lives alone ? |