Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 2 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 3 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 4 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 5 | Any daily spread , you 've been given here a two page per day dairy . |
| 6 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 7 | For example , on a second camera pass a projector was run along with the Discovery model to project action within the craft , seen at the windows , the windows having been blacked out the first time . |
| 8 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 9 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 10 | That stuff 's only been dropped here a few days . |
| 11 | Any previous encounters will have been picked over a dozen times , the characters of the boys analysed in tedious detail , and interesting future possibilities considered . |
| 12 | A variety of cargoes , as diverse as Britain 's industries , has been carried on the inland waterways . |
| 13 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 14 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 15 | Maybe , she thought , she had been adopting entirely the wrong approach . |
| 16 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 17 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 18 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 19 | A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ He has been granted both a disabled facilities grant and mandatory renovation grant . ’ |
| 20 | I took , I took the cheque around on Monday , I had the , the last appointment on Friday and erm since I 've had the abscess , the tooth that 's got a crown on top , I think it 's been pushed up a little bit and my top teeth , the first two keeps catching was this |
| 21 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 22 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 23 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 24 | A court has been told how a former player with Swindon Town Football Club tried to blackmail his ex-chairman over tax-free payments to staff . |
| 25 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 26 | She has been offered only the statutory minimum of £4,715 in redundancy pay . |
| 27 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 28 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 29 | The first raider had been downed only a short while earlier by Archie McKellar , who saw the attacker crash into the Lothians . |
| 30 | As a result , one of the central policy priorities of government has been to strengthen significantly the academic infrastructure so that research and postgraduate training activities are adequate to meet the future needs of industry , especially in what have been termed ‘ exploitable areas of science ’ . |