Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [v-ing] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who know , think it a matter without interest , so that again and again in my enquiries , when some touch of colour has been given illuminating the ways of life among the people who are above the need for help , it has been cut short by a semi-apology : ‘ But that is not what you want to know about ’ … |
| 2 | If the Certificate of Search discloses that a resolution has been made adopting the provisions of the Clean Air Act , that 's an advantage to a buyer as a measure of protection against pollution . |
| 3 | ‘ Since the judgment of Thorpe J. , the former matrimonial home in Victoria has been sold leaving the parents with a financial shortfall . |
| 4 | The package is still being refined , and five local authorities have been involved with formal evaluation feeding back information from a core sample of 200 children who have been assessed using the schedules . |
| 5 | He would assume that I had been detained scrubbing the floors of the kitchens at Grindlewood Park . |
| 6 | A leaflet has been compiled outlining the problems caused by excessive amounts of iron in groundwater ( a common occurrence ) , and remedial actions that can be taken . |
| 7 | My father described to me how the Guides had arrived and gone straight into action after marching day and night from the Punjab ; how Nicholson had been killed leading the troops as they stormed the ramparts of Delhi . |
| 8 | It would , of course , be far fetched to compare the plight of the French fighting the Japanese in Vietnam with that of the Polish Home Army who had been destroyed fighting the Germans in Warsaw in 1944 although , in one respect at least , the failure of the proximate military power to lend assistance meant that others , who were more responsive to the plight of the Poles and the French , did what they could from a distance to help . |