Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 2 | The two men , both facing terrorist charges , escaped after producing a gun , which had been hidden in one of their shoes , as they were being escorted back to the prison 's secure unit from attending mass in the chapel . |
| 3 | In John Hart 's case , his appeal to the House of Lords against the decisions of the High Court and the Court of Appeal would have been dismissed by four to one , had proceedings as related in Hansard not been allowed as evidence . |
| 4 | The creamy bedroom carpet is echoed in the bathroom which has been furnished with some of the antique fixtures and fittings gleaned on Jake 's auction tours . |
| 5 | In recent years , the Shetland summer season has been tainted for many of us by the knowledge that thousands of our sea-birds have failed to raise any young . |
| 6 | His most important theme is the way in which , uniquely among imperial powers , British concepts of masculinity — not least as fostered in public schools — had been redefined by 1914 in the perceived interest of imperial administrative efficiency ‘ to mean not sexual prowess and maturity , but sexual restraint ’ . |
| 7 | The proposal for a new trading zone and for regional economic co-operation had first been mooted in 1989 by Turkey , which was responsible for convening this meeting . |
| 8 | " He 's been posted to one of those bloody awful oil-rigs in the North Sea , and he wo n't be back till Christmas . |
| 9 | Surely , then , word would have been heard of some of them . |
| 10 | The letter was thought to have been heard by one-quarter of the population . |
| 11 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 12 | The call had been traced to one of a bank of three public booths in Saffron Walden , a market-town in western Essex , just off the M11 motorway from London to Cambridge . |
| 13 | In little over a year since the British government gave its approval to CB , the Home Office has been inundated with six to eight thousand complaints of interference each month . |
| 14 | The capacity of the stadium has been limited to 17,000 with Dublin being allocated 10,000 , 5,000 to Wexford and the remainder set aside for neutrals . |
| 15 | We have been ripped off rotten with their metric and decimal . |
| 16 | She has previously been sacked from one of her schools because she slept with her pupils . |
| 17 | Until very recently , the SAAF has had the praiseworthy policy of flying as many of its historic airframes as possible , and the Oxford 's restoration has been undertaken with this in mind , or at the very least to allow the aircraft to ground-run . |
| 18 | A substantial amount of prospecting may have been undertaken in some of the areas , but not necessarily for the deposit styles mentioned above . |
| 19 | A telephone call reported a device had been placed on one of the SVR train-sets . |
| 20 | ROMANY KING * , a model of consistency who has been placed in all but one of his 21 races over fences , may prove the value bet in today 's Martell Grand National ( 4.0 ) at Aintree . |
| 21 | The drama of the succession , whether it should go to Curzon or to Baldwin , has always been treated as one of the great hairs-breadth decisions of British constitutional history . |
| 22 | As confirmation was not forthcoming , PW was unable to conclude whether Perfect Information was an associated undertaking at 31 March 1992 and should have been treated as such at 31 March 1991 . |
| 23 | ‘ If the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic had n't been crushed in 1920 by the Bolsheviks , it 's not yet clear who would be helping who now . |
| 24 | Several cases of serious criminal activity , including burglary and fraudu-lent use of BUF funds , have been commented upon both by academic studies and by more sympathetic observers like Henry Williamson . |
| 25 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 26 | Screen metaphors have been developed for each of these areas to make location in the system a graphical attribute . |
| 27 | The Census Offices in Great Britain are very concerned that the datasets should not be misused , and the registration procedure has been developed with this in mind . |
| 28 | In fact , I may have been lulled by that into an unwise bravado . |
| 29 | The acquirer may not have the time or be willing to make the inspections and will not want to accept the risk that some information may have been given to one of its employees or advisers who was unable at the time to appreciate its significance in relation to the transaction , or indeed may have been forgotten . |
| 30 | Some thought will already have been given to this in deciding how many priorities will be tackled in the coming year . |