Example sentences of "been [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For some years the three-cornered parish with its three Mass centres had been looking to provide a parish centre with meeting and function rooms and to locate the priests ' house onsite . |
| 32 | Ever since being given a large stalk of them at the end of last summer , I have been wanting to make a design from them . |
| 33 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |
| 34 | In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) . |
| 35 | Sufficient signatures had been collected to hold a referendum in the Crimea on independence from Ukraine . |
| 36 | The prison in Matagalpa had been built to hold a maximum of 600 , and in January 1989 there were 530 occupants . |
| 37 | Soon after Haig-Thomas had left us we passed a shrine to Sheikh Husain ; the white-washed dome with four turrets had been built to commemorate a place where the saint had lived alone for years , praying and fasting . |
| 38 | The airstrip itself had been built to serve a golf and diving resort that a consortium of Dutch and American businessmen had planned to build on Straker 's Cay , but the money had run out before the hotel or marina had been built and all that was left of their grandiose plans was this pinkish runway made of compacted coral and a few abandoned cement mixers which rusted forlornly where the hotel 's swimming pool was to have been built . |
| 39 | It must have been built to fill a space that was left after the five houses had been completed . |
| 40 | They were coming to the end of the motorway — which went nowhere , after the fashion of the country , having been built to please a politician it was said — and both of them knew a bar . |
| 41 | To process the order , the company would have to take labour off current projects that have been costed to yield a contribution of £5/hr . |
| 42 | The referendum had been organized to offer a choice between six different options , plus the existing status quo , ranging from full independence to incorporation as a state of the USA . |
| 43 | In Byelorussia , which was widely regarded as retaining one of the most conservative republican leaderships , it had been decided to allocate a quota of reserved Supreme Soviet seats for official organizations ( a practice applied in the March 1989 elections to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies but since labelled undemocratic and abandoned for national elections — see p. 36978 ) . |
| 44 | It has been decided to recruit a number of ‘ volunteer ’ Area Organisers to keep records of classes int heir area and Pat hopes that you will co-operate with them in giving fullest details of your classes so that communications can be improved both within the Society and with the public . |
| 45 | After it has been decided to make a record , these departments , together with the artist 's manager and the A&R staff , discuss the release date . |
| 46 | In addition permission has been granted to interview a sample of these patients together with their Responsible Medical Officers . |
| 47 | Permission has been granted to erect a monument in Green Park , close to Canada Gates , London . |
| 48 | Conditional planning permission has been granted to build a bowling centre at the Scorpion club , Colburn , near Catterick Garrison . |
| 49 | OUTLINE planning permission has been granted to build a library on the corner of Smithfield Street and Hillsborough in Lisburn . |
| 50 | In spite of specialization , the general outline of the discovery of many recent drugs is remarkably similar and indeed has been said to follow a text-book pattern . |
| 51 | Arrangements have been made to plant a tree in Regent 's Park , in the vicinity of Molly 's tree close by St. John 's Hall , on Tuesday 25th March at 11.00 a.m . |
| 52 | Provision has been made to include a general , but we do not specify that the general should be a particular Orc or Goblin warlord , the chieftain of a powerful tribe , or any given individual . |
| 53 | Provision has been made to include a general , but we do not specify whether this is the Emperor , an Elector Count , the Reiksmarshall of the Reiksguard , or whoever — any of these individuals can and have taken command of Imperial armies during the history of the Empire . |
| 54 | An attempt has been made to submit a Design Change ( DC ) which references modules to which the submitter does not have access to . |
| 55 | Philip Tickner reported on planning applications , saying that the request to convert a barn at Pingleston into part living accommodation had been refused , and that application has been made to replace a bungalow at Godsfield , with a four bedroomed house . |
| 56 | Plans have also been made to hold a domino drive on April 3 at 7.30pm . |
| 57 | Owing to her advanced pregnancy and Stephen 's frequent absences on business , no efforts had been made to appoint a governess for Victoria . |
| 58 | By a series of Acts ranging from 1907 to 1960 exceptions had already been made permitting a man to marry his deceased or divorced wife 's sister or half-sister , his niece by marriage or his aunt by marriage ; and a woman may marry her deceased or divorced husband 's brother or half-brother . |
| 59 | However , although only a minority affected by it develop microcephaly and other conditions associated with mental handicap , it is common and attempts have been made to develop a vaccine which would prevent potential damage . |
| 60 | He said the US authorities were paying a substantial part of the costs incurred by the wives in preparing their legal challenge , but no provision had been made to meet a costs order in favour of Cherwell council . |