Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the head of the parade was a blue banner bearing the words ‘ Civil Rights March ’ , which had been carried on the Coalisland — Dungannon march . |
| 2 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 3 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 4 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 5 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 6 | ‘ I have always felt that it is a crying shame that the works of possibly the greatest writer of all time , William Shakespeare , have — purely for examination purposes — been pushed down the throats of school children . |
| 7 | He has started just two matches so far , having been pushed down the pecking order by the arrival of £2 million David Rocastle from Arsenal . |
| 8 | A KPMG spokesman said : " The environment has been pushed down the agenda of many private companies by other factors such as the recession and exchange rates . |
| 9 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 10 | A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area . |
| 11 | The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls . |
| 12 | She said how the old people 's sitting room had been livened up when a few pictures of old Barnsley had been hung on the walls . |
| 13 | A plaque had been hung on the gates : ‘ Fierce Dog — Beware ’ . |
| 14 | The Pakistan skipper had been drawn down the pitch by Tufnell 's flight . |
| 15 | Technological developments have been used down the ages to fragment jobs and de-skill workers , they claim . |
| 16 | There and in its environs , this week , have been played out the shows of Kenneth Baker as Kenneth Branagh , Michael Heseltine as Alvin Stardust , and Geoffrey Howe as Geoffrey Howe . |
| 17 | Fitted with an original 80hp Le Rhone rotary engine , ‘ A635 ’ has been shipped out the USA and flown successfully . |
| 18 | By law she is not allowed to smack the children and I can not understand , sometimes how she manages to stop herself when brand new wallpaper has been pulled off the wall and a clean coat of paint has been drawn on . |
| 19 | Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile . |
| 20 | This view shows the station still under construction and it will be seen that a temporary track has been laid up the ramp to Infirmary Road to enable materials to be offloaded . |
| 21 | Close inspection reveals that a strip of reverse grain timber has been laid down the centre in order to add strength — another old-fashioned idea and a good one , too . |
| 22 | There 's the nucleus of a very good side here , the young lads have been brought up the Lyall way . ’ |
| 23 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |
| 24 | Charges had been brought in the USA in July 1991 against BCCI 's founder , Agha Hasan Abedi , and BCCI 's former chief operating officer , Swaleh Naqvi [ see p. 38355 ] . |
| 25 | They must have been brought in the hope of some celebration to which the way had been lost . |
| 26 | In a discontinued action , the district judge has power , on taxation , to determine the scale of costs ( Ord 38 , r 4(7) ) and as to costs where an action is brought and tried in the High Court which could have been brought in the county court see s 19 . |
| 27 | A personal injury claim was commenced in the High Court when , in accordance with the High Court and County Court Jurisdiction Order 1990 , it should have been brought in the county court , a fact which the person bringing the case in the High Court knew or should have known . |
| 28 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
| 29 | The railway station has been re-sited down the line to make room for the town 's bypass . |
| 30 | After it 's been dished out the paymasters ride on to take the pay to the men cutting down the forest . |