Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So far the Yugoslav civil war has been waged mainly by activist minorities plus the professionals . |
| 6 | Punishment , by several indications swift and far-reaching , has been meted out for incompetence , not insubordination . |
| 7 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 … . |
| 9 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 10 | ‘ And that would have been ironic , would n't it , now he 's been posted back to HQ . |
| 11 | He found that the clause which had been heard immediately before testing was usually recalled completely accurately . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It seems likely that documents that have hitherto been limited largely to Board discussions will shortly be made more widely available to staff . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This has not been publicised elsewhere to date , and that is the one redeeming feature of this otherwise unwelcome and ill-considered arrangement . |
| 16 | The event had also been publicised well in advance . |
| 17 | As a result , reliance has been placed mainly upon case law to map the contours of the current prohibition . |
| 18 | Her sense of its deliberate concealment was overwhelmingly strong-it had been placed out of sight , but in a place where its owner could easily put his hand on it . |
| 19 | Again , tiger teeth found in Bornean caves are believed to have been placed there by man and not to indicate the former presence of the animal on that island . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) The character in this closeup is speaking direct to camera , so she has been placed centrally in frame . |
| 21 | Leaving his cry wafting after him , he disappeared in pursuit of a housemaid who was busily removing all the clean antimacassars that had only just been placed lovingly in position for the oil-bedaubed heads that would shortly be resting on them . |
| 22 | She claims she could have been treated soon after birth , but has suffered a lifetime of pain and disability . |
| 23 | These are judges who accept ‘ no grovelling on the part of prisoners ’ , even those who play on having a relative in the RUC ( and we did come across a policeman who believed that his brother had been treated leniently in court as a result of this connection with the force ) . |
| 24 | Eleven of them had been treated previously with size 10 French plastic stents for a mean duration of 15 ( 2–36 ) months . |
| 25 | Eleven had been treated previously with plastic endoprostheses . |
| 26 | You 're soft on those who 've been treated badly by life — and if you 're not very careful it might well be you . ’ |
| 27 | Cases frequently come to light in which submissive children have been treated literally like household slaves , often into late middle-age , by domineering parents . |
| 28 | Compromise had , as he put it , been crushed out of existence . |
| 29 | As has already been pointed out in section I .2 , practical redistributional measures are not costless , so that it is in all probability more efficient to tell the telephone company it has to bear the expense of maintaining rural telephone boxes than to fund these separately . |
| 30 | That such behaviour occurs for series and parallel resonant circuits has already been pointed out in section 5.7 . |