Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [det] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son . |
| 2 | Finally , it should be pointed out that one of the grounds on which under section 432 the Secretary of State may appoint inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs of a company is that ‘ the company 's members have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs which they might reasonably expect ’ — whether or not that information is such that they have an express statutory right to be told it . |
| 3 | A police Rover had been parked half-on the pavement , along with a couple of officers ' cars . |
| 4 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |
| 5 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 6 | It 's only once all these preparations have been done that the family concentrate on decorating their own home . |
| 7 | They have been handed all the debt recovery work of Westminster City Council in one of the biggest steps by a local authority in the contracting out process . |
| 8 | But this time the door had been closed all the way , and she could n't make out what was being said . |
| 9 | Could we have been hoodwinked all the way ? |
| 10 | If however , there was no open way remaining , then the rising main must have been brought all the way up to the top of the shaft . |
| 11 | A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ? |
| 12 | Ginguene 's most valuable next sentence suggests that the director 's baton had been waved all the time : it ‘ indicated by its strokes the end of each so-called bar and , by the various signs that it traced in the air , the various interpolations or divisions of that bar . ’ |