Example sentences of "been [verb] [art] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This particular evening we 'd been to see the latest Lloyd Webber musical and I was high on the music , treading on air … ’ |
| 2 | It has been given the lowest efficiency target in the country by the Government 's new Passenger 's Charter . |
| 3 | But the scale of the tragedy exposed by Michael Buerk and his BBC camera crew , and the response it provoked in the no-bullshit , energetic , passionately caring rock musician Bob Geldof meant that old-world attitudes towards the plight of helpless peoples have been given the biggest jolt since the anti-slavery campaigns of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Brintons company has been manufacturing the finest quality of woven carpets for over 200 years , and it is a private company which specializes in producing Axminster and Wilton carpets in which enters a high percentage of wool / . |
| 5 | Once sample preparation has been completed the simplest analyses may be performed on the largest particles . |
| 6 | Just Top service : Stockton trained Edwin Taylor has been nominated the best trainee waiter in Britain the second consecutive year a trainee with the Middlesbrough based Hotel and Catering Training Company has won the award . |
| 7 | Endoscopic ultrasound has been considered the best procedure for assessing the preoperative staging of oesophageal carcinoma but few studies have considered its efficacy in evaluating the response to chemo or radiotherapy . |
| 8 | Trevor 's daughter Tracy was the star of the evening , and has been voted the best raffle ticket-drawer we have had ! |
| 9 | She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th . |
| 10 | Had not John of Gaunt been reckoned the richest man in the kingdom ? |
| 11 | Jesus once said that those who had been shown the greatest mercy by God were the ones who loved him the most . |
| 12 | The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament . |
| 13 | I , for one , have been called the dumbest person in Britain . |
| 14 | Chunnel cynics think the high profile of the rabies defences is meant to draw attention away from the real hazards of what 's been called the longest crematorium in the world |
| 15 | She was very religious and may have been considering the best approaches to make . |
| 16 | Retailers have effectively redefined ‘ debt ’ as ‘ credit ’ — a move which has been dubbed the greatest marketing coup of all time by the National Association of Citzens Advice Bureaux ( NACAB ) . |
| 17 | Retailers have effectively redefined ‘ debt ’ as ‘ credit ’ — a move which has been dubbed the greatest marketing coup of all time by the National Association of Citzens Advice Bureaux ( NACAB ) . |
| 18 | Clearly , while an increasing proportion of the population have been buying their houses , working-class people have been buying the cheapest housing on the market . |
| 19 | The result has been to reward the biggest airlines , which incidentally go to the most attractive places for leisure travel , and to destroy the small carriers which go to a limited number of places . |
| 20 | The floor was paved with marble flagstones , black and white so it looked like a chessboard , and on this had been laid the thickest rugs from Persia , India and Turkey . |
| 21 | His education was placed in the hands of a series of military tutors , and before the pathetic little boy was seven he had been appointed the youngest corporal in the Prussian Army and made to congratulate his father on his thirtieth birthday in full uniform . |
| 22 | All the gardens have been chosen by local inspectors , and 80 have been awarded the highest accolade of a two-star rating . |
| 23 | Few strategists would gainsay the primacy of the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — upon which the sovereignty of the realm depends ; though , paradoxically , the United Kingdom has usually been so secure behind its sea walls that Home Defence has been accorded the lowest allocation of resources . |
| 24 | So far you have been finding the highest number that can be divided into each example without leaving a remainder . |
| 25 | The National Trust has been left the largest bequest in its history by Mrs Helena Levy , the widow of leading philanthropist , Kenneth Levy . |