Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way to Eric 's first hiding place there had been an uncomfortable few minutes when the doctor 's car , in spite of its prominently displayed red cross , had been stopped by a carabinieri patrol . |
| 2 | The fact that Margaret had been illegitimate , a war baby conceived between an Italian prisoner of war and an English landgirl , had no bearing on her name , although probably quite a lot to do with Margaret 's lack of maternalism , since she 'd been reared in a children 's home . |
| 3 | The Social Work ( Scotland ) Act of 1968 states that ‘ where a child has been notified that his case has been referred to a children 's hearing , he shall be under an obligation to attend that hearing in accordance with the notification , . |
| 4 | She tells me that Jamie has been caught in a drugs bust at the Cross Keys pub . |
| 5 | He had been caught in a women 's magazine praising Mrs Thatcher . |
| 6 | An attempted raid was also been reported at a solicitors office in Horsemarket . |
| 7 | The City Chambers have been booked for a cyclists ’ breakfast and we hope to encourage as many people as possible to bike to work that day . |
| 8 | Eddie Browning 's case has now been re-opened with a police inquiry . |
| 9 | A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association . |
| 10 | The idea has been expanded into a Peoples Show Festival and similar exhibitions , featuring over 200 different collections of tens of thousands of items , will be held at fourteen different venues from Cheltenham to Stoke on Trent . |
| 11 | Two fire-bomb attacks had previously been made against a police barracks and the court in Lecce , where the appeal was to be heard . |
| 12 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 13 | She is extremely distressed and has been seen by a police surgeon . |
| 14 | Chief Insp Malcolm Fordy confirmed that Alan Jackson , of The Bank , had been accused of a firearms offence , but police had been unable to serve a summons on him . |
| 15 | A community leader had to be removed from the area under police escort when it was alleged that she had been used as a police informer . |
| 16 | Before the Christmas break , we fitted in two more FIS downhills at Altenmarkt , on a course which had been used for a women 's world cup . |
| 17 | The four Synodontis could have been accommodated in a 36″ tank , accompanied by a few Congo Tetras rather than the Tinfoils . |
| 18 | Between the house and the barn is the smallest of the three buildings which has been reconstructed as a cattle byre ( animal house ) . |
| 19 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 20 | TAX incentives encouraging businesses to make donations to schools have been condemned by a teachers ' leader . |
| 21 | The four home countries ' teams have been invited to a pre-Games warm-up meeting in Sydney , where the Kenyans and Canadians will also compete . |
| 22 | And just finally , on Friday we are in to the we 've been invited into a bags competition , you know , that 's after the bags actually means bookmakers afternoon greyhound services , and we race that every Friday as you know erm anyway we 've been invited to erm a national championship involving the other bags tracks that erm involved in this erm and so we stage our two heats on Friday . |
| 23 | Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old . |
| 24 | Mr Chaskalson has long been known as a human-rights lawyer defending people charged under South Africa 's apartheid and terrorism laws . |
| 25 | ONE of the guns found in West Belfast recently had been stolen from a police inspector in 1988 . |
| 26 | Later , we read that ‘ nothing … shall prevent a constable delaying taking a person who has been arrested to a police station if the presence of that person elsewhere is necessary in order to carry out such investigations as it is reasonable to carry out immediately ’ . |
| 27 | His call for the establishment of a working relationship with environmentalists has been supported by a Fisheries Ministry spokesman . |
| 28 | It 's thought that the fire had been caused by a welders spark . |
| 29 | He was appalled at the thought of turning into a pub at five-thirty for a quiet drink and finding that it had been converted into a Poets ' Pub , ‘ reverberating , like an African village , with the roll of ‘ Drake 's Drum . ’ . |
| 30 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |