Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the gambling stories may have been exaggerated to cover up some story of compromising letters and blackmail , and the matter is obscure . |
| 2 | It is clear , for example , that there are still striking regional variations in the use of custodial remands , in spite of the Bail Act 's attempt to structure the decision-making process , which might have been expected to iron out some of the more extreme disparities . |
| 3 | But the usaf says with the end of the cold war it 's been decided to pull out all staff . |
| 4 | Finally given the schedule , the detailed room description , and these architectural considerations , ( amongst others ) an attempt has been made to draw up some exemplar plans and two of these are illustrated . |
| 5 | Recently a major new canal has been made to cut off some of the tributary rivers . |
| 6 | Moreover , experiments on pigeons have been thought to rule out that possibility . |
| 7 | Zaria , a relatively new old friend , had been persuaded to stay over that Sunday night as I had convinced her I was missing my faithful feline companion Springsteen , who was back in Hackney guarding the flat we shared . |
| 8 | Although recently the Association has been enabled to take on some 250 full-time archaeologists , there is still an acute shortage . |
| 9 | Not only do these shatter on hard impact , but the edges have been known to nip off any parts straying outside when an incoming kick is struck home . |
| 10 | Maggot farm odours , to mention but one source , have been known to spread over several miles and affect up to 20,000 people . |
| 11 | ‘ The plants are sometimes wrongly labelled and boxes of mixed plants have been known to come up all the same colour . ’ |
| 12 | This is news to me ; the widespread cattle mutilations across the American midwest in the past two decades are variously blamed on cultists , aliens or government experimentation , but , as far as I am aware , no actual proof has ever been found to back up any one of these hypotheses . |
| 13 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , at the end of a year when insufficient Terminal courses had been provided to use up all available Ministry grant , he commented that ‘ we may find it increasingly difficult to resist a reduction in the number of tutor-organisers we now employ , let alone claim a further appointment , if additional Terminal courses are not successfully organised in both established and new centres ’ . |
| 14 | I am now part of a small multi-cultural group which has been asked to take on this task . |
| 15 | I 've been asked to straighten up all the lampshades . |
| 16 | Certainly the first signs from other areas in which the Government have been allowed to carry out such schemes show that there will be considerable problems for transport users when the changes are introduced . |
| 17 | The canals of the area had been allowed to deteriorate over many years and for many months of each year could not carry full loads . |
| 18 | Elizabeth had introduced her system of fines for those who did not conform to the state religion , and the Roscarrocks had been forced to sell off all but this last small bastion of the Old Faith , perched on the edge of Cornwall . |
| 19 | But at that time she herself had been determined to find out all there was to know . |
| 20 | HEIs have been tempted to take on more research than perhaps they should have done . |
| 21 | A special cadre of judicial officers , the taxing masters , has been established to carry out this process . |