Example sentences of "been [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face had been hidden in the darkness , yet she thought she would recognise him if they met again . |
| 2 | ‘ We did not accept his resignation because we felt he had already been dismissed in the summer , ’ Lawrie Hargrave said . |
| 3 | The violent repercussions of the second decree have been examined in the case-study of Roslavl' in the Smolensk guberniia . |
| 4 | Yesterday , Crawford Beveridge , SE chief executive , said the issues raised in the documents had been examined in the audit . |
| 5 | Paragraph ( a ) has already been examined in the context of the mental element in the offence , and will not be considered further . |
| 6 | These expressions have been italicized in the diagram above . |
| 7 | The ruling , the first occasion on which a constitutional amendment had been overturned in the court , marked a defeat for Ershad . |
| 8 | Since its formation these founding companies have been joined in the Quality Scotland Foundation by other like-minded organisations , all keen to promote a quality-conscious attitude not only in their own businesses but throughout Scottish life . |
| 9 | For this reason an additional agent has been hypothesised in the pathogenesis of CLO . |
| 10 | The report by the two umpires had been delayed in the post , we were told . |
| 11 | Standing there in shade , I observed the man and woman who had also been eating in the hotel emerge with their child . |
| 12 | His workshop seems to have been situated in the basement of his house , with his office on the ground floor . |
| 13 | They charged Dad with obstructing the police , and claimed that all our injuries had been sustained in the struggle . |
| 14 | This helped the police , who had been demoralised in the past when , time and again , they would arrest terrorists only to find that they were released in government amnesties aimed , in vain , at regaining the trust of alienated Sikhs . |
| 15 | But since 1949 , the Chinese bedroom was used as a furniture store.Pieces of furniture had also been stacked in the family chapel for the past forty years . |
| 16 | A groan went up that Charlie reckoned must have been heard in the middle of Edinburgh . |
| 17 | Counsel then appearing for the petitioner does not seem to have appreciated that the cancellation issue had been heard in the course of the trial of the preliminary issue and finally decided by the Court of Appeal on 4 October 1991 . |
| 18 | Of greater interest to The Times was the attendance of the King at the match for the first time and the fact that a cuckoo had been heard in the vicinity of the Crystal Palace . |
| 19 | Although comprising only ten airframes , the collection gives a fascinating glimpse at some early Soviet designs of which little has been heard in the West . |
| 20 | But this time , the voices were not in the distress of agony that had been heard in the reception area . |
| 21 | She 'd been waitressing in the dining-room for breakfast and lunch . |
| 22 | Mr Ajello stressed that the election campaign would not begin until all army and Renamo troops had been gathered in the assembly points and disarmed , and a new national army put together from both sides . |
| 23 | It has not been recognized in the East . |
| 24 | He and his men had been resting in the farm when they saw Sharpe 's ignominious flight . |
| 25 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 26 | Her eyebrows had been plucked in the manner of the thirties , thin arches high above the natural line of the brow . |
| 27 | While moral suasion had been favoured in the War ( in preference to rationing ) as a means of restricting domestic demand , and had for a time been partially successful , as peace returned it lost much of its impact . |
| 28 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 29 | Dr Kekedo explained that progress for women has been limited in the workplace despite legislation for equal rights since independence 16 years ago . |
| 30 | DON OSLEAR has been sacked in the middle of cricket 's great ball-tampering scandal . |