Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decision on his longer term future has been delayed until the end of the season . |
| 2 | Had he been interned until the end of the war in Tost or one of the other civilian camps , he would probably have faced no charges . |
| 3 | Politics-watchers guess that , had Rajiv Gandhi not been assassinated at the end of the general-election campaign two years ago , the BJP would have won roughly as many seats as Congress . |
| 4 | John Major told the Commons at Prime Minister 's Question Time that none of the 16 arrested at the factory , where 340 had been sacked at the end of January , had been a Timex worker . |
| 5 | The water company is under an obligation to enhance drinking water standards because of a European Community directive and is liable to be prosecuted by the UK government if the improvements have not been undertaken by the end of 1995 . |
| 6 | If your item of concern has been placed at the end of the agenda , the probability is that time will run out and you may want to get it moved forward . |
| 7 | A priority order form has been placed at the end of this section . |
| 8 | Eurotunnel , which is already in default of its credit agreement with the banks , has in effect been given until the end of the year to settle its differences with the contractors to permit ‘ a viable financing strategy to be put in place ’ . |
| 9 | Mr James was brought in by Eagle 's creditor banks — the group has debts of over £80m — and has been given until the end of next year to turn the business around . |
| 10 | A third secretary at the UK embassy was reported on July 21 to have been given until the end of the month to leave the country , accused of having " violated diplomatic norms " . |
| 11 | In 1991 the Philippines ' Senate had refused to ratify a renegotiated bases treaty , and the US military had been given until the end of 1992 to effect a complete withdrawal . |
| 12 | Britain 's packaging industry has been given until the end of the year to draw up plans for recycling 50-75 per cent of all packaging waste by the year 2000 . |
| 13 | If the merger has not been referred by the end of this period it is deemed to be cleared . |
| 14 | A separate section describing some of the famous warriors of Ulthuan has been included at the end of the army list . |
| 15 | Thus , in addition to an analysis of the results for each question in turn , a section of general comments on the above themes has been included in the end of each group of questions . |
| 16 | 75 per cent of subjects in this condition included a statement about the overall theme of the passage at the beginning of their recall protocols even though this information had actually been presented at the end of the passage and subjects were instructed to recall the passage verbatim . |
| 17 | Looking upwards , she saw that no window had yet been built into the end wall at the top of the stairs , and this lack of light helped to emphasize the Stygian gloom in which she stood . |
| 18 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
| 19 | A landing-stage has been built at the end of the path , but there is no boat , and on the far side stands a stone summerhouse , the door ajar . |
| 20 | After a stainless steel insert has been pushed into the end of the pipe , the pipe can then be pushed into the fitting with a slight twisting motion . |
| 21 | The first quarter deficit had been about 80,000 million roubles , although January and February had shown a 12,200 million rouble surplus , as concessions on social spending and tax cuts had been made towards the end of the first quarter . |
| 22 | Mr Richard Aiken , counsel for BBC Enterprises , had told the court that a decision on whether to continue the BBC Europe service should have been made at the end of November but had been deferred until a meeting of the directors on December 29 . |
| 23 | I would therefore hold that where there is a split trial or more accurately , in relation to a non-jury case , a split hearing , any party may appeal without leave against an order made at the end of one part if he could have appealed against such an order without leave if both parts had been heard together and the order had been made at the end of the complete hearing . |
| 24 | No breakthrough on the future of the republic after the referendum had been made by the end of the third round of talks on Feb. 27 . |
| 25 | Disturbingly , however , 27 patients who had been referred between August and December had still not been seen by the end of the study . |
| 26 | He confirmed that 150 beds should have been opened by the end of March . |
| 27 | The mansio was constructed in the Hadrianic period , following the evacuation of the nearby fort , but it seems to have gone out of use and been demolished by the end of the second century . |
| 28 | Waiting lists are longer than ever ; yet the day-surgery wards designed to cut them have been padlocked until the end of the financial year . |
| 29 | Both names — the Latin Ragusa and the Slavonic Dubrovnik — have been used since the end of the first millennium to designate the settlement which was established on a rocky site below the limestone cliffs of Mt Srdj ( 412 m ) , facing the island of Lokrum . |
| 30 | Supporters say they 're angered by the Kerslake deal — it 's not the first time , they claim , that Swindon 's best players have been sold with the end of the season in sight . |