Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , the obituaries have been pencilled in as Liverpool have brought in younger strike partners . |
| 2 | And here 's an interesting thing I learned from the Independent on Sunday last weekend : as its correspondent David Lister put it , ‘ An international competition to find the best of the worst new verse has been wound up because poets on both sides of the Atlantic can no longer distinguish between ‘ good bad ’ poetry and ‘ bad good ’ poetry . ’ |
| 3 | This had reportedly been watered down after Russia threatened to veto a proposal to suspend the FRY from all UN bodies , demanding instead that it be merely excluded from the General Assembly . |
| 4 | I have gipies coming up from Somerset into my county division because they have been moved on because Somerset is designated . |
| 5 | Patient 4 who had been operated on before referral received additional radiation therapy . |
| 6 | As it is , the only problems that clearly disturb him — as opposed to confuse him — are the nightmares and habitual sleepwalking he 's been tormented by since childhood , long before the recreational drug use kicked in . |
| 7 | There is a curious contradiction here between Shedlock 's remark that the manuscript seems to have been copied up as Purcell completed the various numbers and his observation that it contains the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival — ; or , to be more precise , labelled ‘ new ’ where it appears in the 1693 word-book . |
| 8 | Such certification could only have been dreamed up as window dressing to exonerate the Agriculture Departments in circumstances where damage could have occurred . |
| 9 | Of course these ticket stocks could have been used up as Day Returns as no rate was quoted on the ticket . |
| 10 | The centre has been closed down while repairs are made . |
| 11 | ‘ A large number of properties have been closed down as landlords pull out because they can not afford to upgrade them , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Raymond Starr , Director of Child Care and Family Services , confirmed that his agency had been called in because Orkney Islands Council did not have the resources to deal with a case of this kind . |
| 13 | A search for what was thought to be a body has been called off after police found an aircraft cargo net . |
| 14 | But some pantomime has been called off because Snow White |
| 15 | Alan McLeary 's proposed £400,000 transfer to Wimbledon following a six-match loan period has been called off because Dons manager Joe Kinnear has been told he must sell first . |
| 16 | BEN Jones , an elderly lawyer and nutmeg farmer , has been sworn in as Grenada 's prime minister after the death of Herbert Blaize , who had ruled the southern Caribbean spice island since the withdrawal of US invasion troops five years ago . |
| 17 | Fergus Aherne of Ireland and the Welshman Gary Jones have been brought in as replacements for Gary Armstrong and John Jeffrey in the Barbarians ' team to play the All Blacks on Saturday . |
| 18 | Even the bricks are Dutch , having been brought back as ballast from Holland after the Lambton coal had been disgorged from their boats . |
| 19 | Some patients with chronic liver disease may have been followed up as outpatients and may not have been admitted to hospital during the study period and , thus , these too would not have been identified . |
| 20 | He appears to have been ruled out although Eoin Jess WILL lead the attack despite Italian media suggestions that he 'll be left out . |
| 21 | The sad thing is that if all the OAPs and others who genuinely ca n't afford the extra withheld that portion of their poll tax , my God , would n't we have been pounced on as lawbreakers and worse and dealt with ten times faster than the poll tax rebels who withhold purely for so-called political reasons . |
| 22 | This canon did not appear by chance ; it must already have been worked out when Borodin began the movement 110 bars previously . |
| 23 | The twenty workers who build his houses have been taken on because Les knows them personally and can vouch for their reliability . |
| 24 | Large caverns had been fitted out as barracks and guard room , and these were a hive of activity as the base personnel stumbled from their beds to snatch weapons , rushing into the tunnels half-dressed . |