Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [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 | Punishment , by several indications swift and far-reaching , has been meted out for incompetence , not insubordination . |
| 6 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 … . |
| 8 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 9 | ‘ And that would have been ironic , would n't it , now he 's been posted back to HQ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Compromise had , as he put it , been crushed out of existence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That such behaviour occurs for series and parallel resonant circuits has already been pointed out in section 5.7 . |
| 14 | As has been pointed out in Chapter Two , an integrated education programme should be based on the views of all the people participating in the various educational processes , but the final success of a given course depends , to a large extent , on the motivation of the students . |
| 15 | It has been pointed out by Gospel that ‘ managers ’ themselves can not be defined simply as being either employers or employees , since for the majority of them their role is ( simultaneously ) of a dual nature : |
| 16 | It has been pointed out by Ochshorn that Jesus ' message is evidently addressed basically to men . |
| 17 | The Socialists have been plunged back into gloom . |
| 18 | The old control tower has been pressed back into service , but this time using mobile equipment . |
| 19 | Blackburn Rovers ' Scottish defender , who has only one B cap to his name , has already been pencilled in as replacement for Richard Gough who was sent off in Switzerland this week . |
| 20 | Several of the planks , including those that had given way under Harry 's weight , had without that beam 's support simply been hanging out in space , resting like a seesaw over the previous beam but otherwise supported only by the tight fit of each plank against the next . |
| 21 | Racedown seems to have been given up without regret ; what was important was ‘ Coleridge 's society ’ . |
| 22 | Everything has always been referred back to mother . |
| 23 | But now ‘ job ’ cars are going diesel completely , because from next year all cars must be cat-equipped if they are petrol vehicles , and so the price differential has been ironed out between petrol and diesel , since ‘ cat ’ cars are more expensive than non-'cats ' . |
| 24 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 25 | A threatened school teachers ' strike was averted in November , but not before a meeting of school students in support of their teachers had been broken up by riot police . |
| 26 | Diplomatic relations with the USA had been broken off after World War II , following Albanian suspicions that attempts were being made to subvert the communist regime of Enver Hoxha , who had taken power in 1944 ; relations with the Soviet Union were severed in 1961 following ideological disputes . |
| 27 | His eyes were red-rimmed and sagging , his nose a mass of pustules , and his teeth had been blacked out with enamel . |
| 28 | GREEN Card actor Gerard Depardieu 's eldest son , Guillaume , 22 , has been roughed up in jail while awaiting trial on drug charges , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 29 | However you organise your checking routine , it is crucial to present written work which has been checked over for spelling . |
| 30 | It will be observed that in those cases there was no statutory period after cessation of trade during which jurisdiction continued , and the court was therefore faced with a stark choice between saying that the jurisdiction ceased immediately active trade was suspended , or saying that it continued until the business had actually been wound up by payment of the debts . |