Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the head of the parade was a blue banner bearing the words ‘ Civil Rights March ’ , which had been carried on the Coalisland — Dungannon march . |
| 2 | In a final report , which has not yet been made public the Atlanta group concludes that seven babies died of deliberate overdoses and that another 2 I deaths could have been avoided if the hospital had been better equipped to spot trouble . |
| 3 | It has been seen how the Thatcher Governments have been busy in turning the taxation of wealth into a voluntary tax . |
| 4 | Fitted with an original 80hp Le Rhone rotary engine , ‘ A635 ’ has been shipped out the USA and flown successfully . |
| 5 | There 's the nucleus of a very good side here , the young lads have been brought up the Lyall way . ’ |
| 6 | Charges had been brought in the USA in July 1991 against BCCI 's founder , Agha Hasan Abedi , and BCCI 's former chief operating officer , Swaleh Naqvi [ see p. 38355 ] . |
| 7 | Finally , long after her ‘ spot ’ had been and gone , Deborah arrived , hot and flustered having been shunted down the Thames from London Weekend on a boat with a troupe of belly dancers all making last minute adjustments to their costumes , or lack of them . |
| 8 | Other techniques may also have been taken over the Atlantic by the conquistadores and , though lost from view of Spain , preserved in South America ; tremolo and on-the-box percussion , both used by King , are two of these . |
| 9 | Second , the axial spin rate of the Earth 4600 Ma ago can be estimated using the principle of conservation of angular momentum by giving the Earth all the present angular momentum of the Moon plus the orbital angular momentum of the Earth and the Moon around their centre of mass : the Earth spins nowhere near fast enough to have spun off lunar material and no very plausible means have been suggested whereby the Earth-Moon system could since have lost the necessarily copious amount of angular momentum . |