Example sentences of "been [verb] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it is important that judges should retire earlier than they do , ’ said Mr Hewitt , of Etherley , near Bishop Auckland , who retired in his 73rd year but who has regularly been recalled to sit in judgement during the past two years . |
| 2 | The student grant has always been intended to provide for accommodation and therefore to some extent reflects variations in costs . |
| 3 | The question is , for the last three years , who 's been helping to look after Mummy ? |
| 4 | An afternoon game drive has been arranged followed by dinner and overnight at the Lodge . |
| 5 | It is 157 metres long , 92 metres across at its widest , the façade is 68 metres wide , the top of the golden Madonna 's statue ( Il Madonnina ) is 108 metres high , and the whole cathedral has been calculated to weigh in excess of 325,000 tons . |
| 6 | An alternative but related statistic , population potential ( Craig , 1972 ) has therefore been developed to take into account the catchment area of population , but once again different spatial units can produce considerable variations in population potential distributions ( Craig , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | They predicted that he would make friends more easily , reckoning without natural adolescent malice and the excessive value their pupils had been taught to place on modesty , however false . |
| 8 | ‘ He 'd been remanded to appear in court for a driving offence , ’ Fairham said . |
| 9 | The following diet is based on the original Trial Diet but has now been amended taking into consideration the observations made by the trial team . |
| 10 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 11 | It has been completed bang on time and within budget thanks to a special task force which was set up to lead the complex engineering job . |
| 12 | If Mimms had a fiver for every time his errors have been exposed to ridicule on TV , his bank balance would rival that of Rovers ' multi-millionaire tycoon owner , Jack Walker . |
| 13 | By one of those somersaults that can make Parliament so perplexing , whereas Ministers in the Commons had been forbidden to vote for abolition , in the Lords they were instructed to support the suspension of the death penalty for five years . |
| 14 | For example , the South West Africa Territory Force ( SWATF ) , numbering around 30,000 has been confined to base on full-pay instead of being disbanded . |
| 15 | There was also a walled kitchen garden , which had been let go to grass , and a large hole had been knocked into one of the walls to let the tractor in to mow it . |
| 16 | Since then he has been permitted to search on Crown estates in Morayshire which were last excavated by the Duke of Richmond in 1860 . |
| 17 | Serum gastrin concentrations have been reported to rise with age . |
| 18 | These proteins have been reported to bind to calmodulin . |
| 19 | In more remote areas , where the NO x concentration can be extremely low , ozone destruction has been reported owing to photolysis by near ultraviolet light . |
| 20 | His league 's annual meeting at Mountain Rangers clubhouse at Rhosgadfan had been expected to put in place a new stipulation to limit one player to one club . |
| 21 | Hawke , who had been expected to speak in favour of a party report recommending the approval of new mines on a case-by-case basis , made no contribution to the debate . |
| 22 | Have you ever been approached to appear in Dynasty or Dallas ? |
| 23 | That information is sent to tactical computers in control stations to produce guidance for artillery and missiles — the American army 's new tactical missile system has been designed to operate as part of such a set-up , hitting targets more than 100km ( 60 miles ) off . |
| 24 | Now you will be able to travel independantly and safely in the evening , and the time-table has been designed to coincide with performance times at The Playhouse . |
| 25 | While , historically , archaeology departments have been organised according to material — pottery , bone and metals — the new laboratory is organised by processes . |
| 26 | The Joint Working Party on Flexible Training has been meeting to consider in detail the arrangements for part time training at senior registrar level and the need for a formal scheme for other grades . |
| 27 | En route for Baghdad he met Mitterrand in Paris on Jan. 11 , EC foreign ministers and also Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar ( who had been seeking to mediate on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement ) in Geneva later that day , and King Hussein of Jordan in Amman that evening . |
| 28 | Many health authorities have been refusing to pay for treatment , arguing that divers should take out decompression insurance . |
| 29 | The GLOBAL method has been applied to solve for porosity , water saturation and the complex lithology . |
| 30 | No attempt has been made to deal in detail with the Act 's provisions , but they are a classic example of the Inland Revenue 's neurosis with tax avoidance and the use of the principle described in the Financial Times as ‘ Sodom in reverse ’ . |