Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 2 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 3 | The remains of water-mills have been consistently removed ; the weirs which hold up river levels have been dismantled ; and mill-ponds and mill-races have been filled with the dredgings . |
| 4 | Gradually , and despite the readiness with which the ranks of the baseej had been filled from the towns and villages , a sense of war-weariness was apparent in Iran ; in 1984 there were even newspaper reports of a loss of the will to fight in the ranks . |
| 5 | Det Supt Ron Coutts , heading the investigation , said the devices found in the evening had been hidden outwith the areas searched in the morning . |
| 6 | More than one appeal concerned solely with the scale rather than the principle of whether there should be any development , has been dismissed on the grounds that the site was unsuitable for any development at all . |
| 7 | Earlier in the season the prospect of a French Championship final between Toulon and Biarritz would have been dismissed with the words : C'est fou ! |
| 8 | ‘ So I struggled on when the best thing would have been to go into the reserves and get my confidence back . |
| 9 | The effect of passage through the primate gut has been examined in the tamarins in Amazonian Peru , where it was found that germination success rates were about 70% . |
| 10 | On the way to Eric 's first hiding place there had been an uncomfortable few minutes when the doctor 's car , in spite of its prominently displayed red cross , had been stopped by a carabinieri patrol . |
| 11 | He had been stopped by the police several times for driving too slowly . |
| 12 | ( nearly one in five ) had been stopped by the police in the street . |
| 13 | of drivers who reported never speeding , 8% had been stopped by the police ; this rose to 62% for those drivers who admitted to speeding regularly . |
| 14 | Mr Harris also said ‘ with absolute certainty ’ that any adverse findings by the JDS would have been overturned by the courts . |
| 15 | Two hundred thousand veterans had been recalled to the Eagles , the half-pay officers had been restored to their battalions , and the arsenals of France had been filled . |
| 16 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 17 | The coalition had been joined by the Peasants ' Party and the Peasants ' Alliance . |
| 18 | The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing . |
| 19 | In late August , however , only days before the body was due to be transported , Imelda Marcos announced that the burial had been delayed on the grounds that she would not submit the body of her husband to the " indignity " of being transported on the cargo aircraft which had been offered by the Philippines ' government . |
| 20 | As the terms accountability and democracy were redefined in the poll tax debates , so the concepts of ‘ justice ’ and ‘ active citizenship ’ have been redefined in the debates about public services . |
| 21 | As I crouched in the slit trench in the semi-darkness I could hear the odd British shell that had been intended for the Germans but had dropped short in the orchard explode with a terrific roar close at hand , causing a shower of dirt to fall from the roof of the trench . |
| 22 | Injections of " capital " from this source will probably differ wildly from one partner to the next and so , taking the generalised capital clause at its face value , adjustments to capital sharing ratios will appear to be taking place at annual intervals , whereas no change at all will have been intended by the partners . |
| 23 | One must look to the contract as a whole to identify the kind of goods that the seller was agreeing to sell and the buyer to buy … where , as in the instant case , the sale ( to use the words of s13 ) is " by sample as well as by description " , characteristics of the goods which would be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample are unlikely to have been intended by the parties to form part of the " description " by which the goods were sold , even though such characteristics are mentioned in references in the contract to the goods that are its subject matter . |
| 24 | Their veteran spokesman thundered occasionally from the back benches , but he 'd been banished to the backwoods by popular opinion . |
| 25 | Souness may have been banished to the stands , but it did not stop his side from assaulting the Russian goal as early as the second minute when Don Hutchison drove Steve McManaman 's cross over . |
| 26 | That should be less of a problem in the cup-tie atmosphere of Stamford Bridge , but £1.5 million Johnston and Serbian import Preki have still been banished to the reserves playing at lowly Mansfield . |
| 27 | He had been posted to the police in Asyut and had hated his time there . |
| 28 | Nonetheless cries of ‘ Kill them [ the Communists ] ’ have been heard on the fringes of the Leipzig demonstrations as protesters stormed the offices of the hated secret police . |
| 29 | But Lord Justice Woolf has written that , as a result of this case , usually it is not until the application has been heard on the merits that it can be decided whether the applicant has sufficient interest , and it is rare in cases which may otherwise be meritorious for leave to be refused on the ground of lack of standing . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've made it , ’ shouted Tommy , in a voice that might even have been heard by the Germans . |