Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [det] [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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Surely , then , word would have been heard of some of them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A substantial amount of prospecting may have been undertaken in some of the areas , but not necessarily for the deposit styles mentioned above . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Screen metaphors have been developed for each of these areas to make location in the system a graphical attribute . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In fact , I may have been lulled by that into an unwise bravado . |
| 13 | Some thought will already have been given to this in deciding how many priorities will be tackled in the coming year . |
| 14 | The duchess being bride to the heir presumptive , with the princes gone , any issue of hers would have been regarded by many as rightful sovereign of the realm . |
| 15 | Well , fortunately , new ground has been broken by some of our novelists , ground which can be husbanded by new writers . |
| 16 | It was later revealed that Ramos had not been consulted over either of the decisions , both of which he later reversed . |
| 17 | Other refined carbohydrates , such as white flour and white rice , like sugar , have been stripped of most of their vitamins , minerals and fibre content and should be replaced with unrefined staple foods such as listed in the Personal Food Audit . |
| 18 | About 60 responses have been received on each of the documents . |
| 19 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 20 | Biogeographers investigating landscape change on the most recent time scale have also resorted to documentary and field evidence because palynology may not be sufficiently reliable at this scale for the studies which have been completed including those of the outer Leeward Islands ( Harris , 1965 ) , the southwest of the United States and the vegetation of Barbados 1627–1800 ( Watts , 1966 ) . |
| 21 | The woman had rubbed herself vigorously with the leaves , and presumably the man had been exposed to some of the plant 's irritant oil remaining on her body after washing . |
| 22 | Besides , she had been caught like that by a man once before . |
| 23 | This has now been modified to that of SARFU representative , whatever that means . |
| 24 | The effect of that has not been forgotten by either of the main parties . |
| 25 | There was a particularly high demand for the dental and ophthalmic services which had not been included in many of the pre-war insurance schemes . |
| 26 | The fee structure has not been included in either of these letters and is discussed in paragraph 0502.5 and section 4 of the handbook . |
| 27 | Metal borrowings , which have a major effect on the profitability of our businesses , have been slashed in half as a result of the process . |
| 28 | References have been confined to some of the more significant primary sources and to secondary sources that readers may find particularly interesting or readable . |
| 29 | But , even though it discouraged optimism and ruled out the possibility of progress , it did not weigh too heavily on medieval historians , particularly because the year 1000 which had been awaited by many with a mixture of hope and trepidation , had passed without any sign of the world coming to an end . |
| 30 | The Left Coalition has so far ruled out linking up with the conservatives again — the improbable alliance of last June has been blamed for much of their drop in support — but has already hinted that it would be willing to support a national unity government as proposed by the New Democrat leader Mr Constantine Mitsotakis . |