Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring . |
| 2 | In Great Britain there is no such force , and the gap has been filled in recent years by a militarization of the police force . |
| 3 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 4 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 5 | On the second day Smith was palpably out lbw but went on the score 42 ; Mujtaba was given out when the ball seemed to hit his boot ; and Gooch , I believe , should have been given out three times in the second innings . |
| 6 | In this case the excitation sequence has been jumped back two steps ( = half the total sequence of four steps ) and the step counter contents must be adjusted . |
| 7 | He had been let down several times , they had done all sorts of things without asking him , and sometimes he only found out what they 'd been up to when the papers rang for comment . |
| 8 | Since this work has been carried out other dictionaries have also become available . |
| 9 | Their death sentence for murder has nearly been carried out three times . |
| 10 | On the other hand Labour 's commission will start to develop proposals only after a broad social and economic ‘ audit ’ of the population has been carried out this year . |
| 11 | He 's been made up this morning , he 's had a big tax rebate , fifteen hundred quid ! |
| 12 | We have been written off all season , but we must keep believing . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Pozsgay has been written off many times . |
| 14 | Skipper Adams was equally guarded , but said : ‘ We 're playing good football and we have n't been turned over this season . |
| 15 | Civilian patients had been turned out three days earlier , as the hospital prepared to receive wounded from the Eastern theatre of war . |
| 16 | But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here . |
| 17 | They had already been hauled up eight times , the first during the summer of 1981 , and had been fined a total of £23,200 . |
| 18 | Special recruitment drives have been organised , " model agreements " governing when and under what conditions temporary workers might be used , and " casual workers " charters ' have been drawn up Some unions , notably the electricians , have gone further , establishing local registers of ( otherwise ) unemployed members from which employers have to draw when filling the temporary positions enterprise level agreements have permitted them to create . |
| 19 | Heavy losses are not new to this big Courage League Two club , but the full measure of their plight has been spelt out this week by Mr Hampson . |
| 20 | Where Newco acquires Target , this does not of itself terminate any contract of employment between Target and its employees , but it is with a view to rationalising the business after it has been bought out that Target may decide to terminate certain contracts of employment ; Newco may also be seeking to vary the terms of employment of certain directors and employees . |
| 21 | It was from Jimmy that she heard the worrying news that Vasey 's had recently been bought out some months ago by the giant Massingham Engineering . |
| 22 | Back in the car G. repeats that the day has been typical except we have n't been called up on the radio and he 's been called up twenty-nine times in the last month . |
| 23 | She was on her own : Dr Neil had been called out some time ago to attend a woman in childbirth , and Matey had gone to visit an old friend in St John 's Wood , and she was the sole mistress of the doctor 's house in Vetch Street . |
| 24 | On Saturday , he had been tied up all day in the stable , but had taken a walk round the Broad over the lunch hour . |
| 25 | In France the direction des consulats et des affaires commerciales which had been set up some years earlier was reorganised in 1882 . |
| 26 | ‘ The head of our company is most displeased with Mr Goode and me , ’ Cave said in June , talking on the telephone to an Iranian who was unenthusiastic about weapons prices that had been marked up 300 percent ; ‘ He said if they do n't want to deal , break it off . ’ |
| 27 | They 've been brought up different way have n't they . |
| 28 | It 's the first time he 's been brought out this way as far as we know |
| 29 | The following story concerns the sighting of a Deltic seen clearly entering Hadley Wood South tunnel , bearing the number 55020 Nimbus , even though the locomotive had been cut up seven months previously . |
| 30 | Bosnia is in worse condition now than had it been split up last year . |