Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biazon had been given much of the credit for the successful loyalist defence of Camp Aguinaldo during the December 1989 coup attempt [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 2 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 3 | The interim committee , which was established by a resolution of the board of governors in 1974 , has been given more of the responsibilities of the full board since its smaller number of members allows it to work more effectively . |
| 4 | Education in Britain has always been considered some of the best in the world . |
| 5 | And the chiller and the waterways and everything should all have been done all at the same time . |
| 6 | Nearly 600 years after the first building it was to suffer a most ignoble period for the old building , within whose walls had been seen some of the highest in the land , was to become a Workhouse . |
| 7 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |
| 8 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 9 | Mr Diplexcito , who has fought for three years to get a suitable house for his family — he has been offered several by the district and regional authorities — said : ‘ My wife and daughters will be staying with relatives , but I only have the car as a roof over my head . |
| 10 | An early book on techniques in geomorphology ( King , 1966 ) covered the range then available , specific manuals have been produced such as the US Geological Survey Techniques of Water Resources Investigations and the Technical Bulletins of the British Geomorphological Research Group , and an edited manual of geomorphological techniques ( Goudie , 1981a ) embraces the earlier developments . |
| 11 | Their so-called furnished accommodation had consisted of two old beds that had come from a second-hand shop , a brokendown settee , and a gas cooker that had probably been used all through the war . |
| 12 | The pre-civilisation human family , in existence before any kind of personal care replaced the primitive laws of survival , would , by its very nature have been spared many of the divisive burdens which break up modern family life . |
| 13 | So far , too , we 've been spared any of the gorier stuff they do here — and some of this stuff you just would n't believe . |
| 14 | No significant onshore placers are currently known but some offshore areas have been investigated such as the Mawddach estuary , near Dolgellau in North Wales , which was considered a prospect by RioFinex during the late 1960s . |
| 15 | It is clear that all around the world , Rottweilers seem to have been discovered all at the same time . |
| 16 | Had butterflies been colour-blind and bees without a delicate sense of smell , man would have been denied some of the greatest delights that the natural world has to offer . |
| 17 | Successive new syntheses have been published both of the history of the party and of the revolution , and with each edition they have tended to become more detailed , more finely nuanced , more subtle . |