Example sentences of "a [noun] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but according to this there 's a payment been put in and she ai n't paid it . |
| 2 | ‘ But has a case been opened , old fellow ? |
| 3 | Well , just generally , we have n't restricted recruiting of care staff , in other words , unless we know there 's a decision been made about a residential establishment which there has n't been at present . |
| 4 | Has a deal been struck do you think , what 's in it for Saddam , what 's in it for Britain ? |
| 5 | Has a deal been struck ? and if a deal has been struck , what do you feel it might be ? and do you really mind , as long as these people have been released ? |
| 6 | He could neither move nor think , as if all power had at a stroke been cut off from both body and brain . |
| 7 | ‘ Never before ’ , wrote Joseph Husband , ‘ had such a car been seen ; never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence . ’ |
| 8 | She said now apparently they 've got a horse somewhere round here and she said when she came back there was this car about half hour later after they 'd left here a car been broken into . |
| 9 | Never before has a machine been allowed such a long and cosseted lead-time . |
| 10 | Has a plan been formulated to rectify any inequalities between units in the distribution of the nursing budget ? |
| 11 | In recent years the model 's exclusive focus on shareholder interests has to a degree been modified . |
| 12 | In some companies this role has to a degree been formalised through the creation of audit committees made up of non-executives , their function being to review the effectiveness of the company 's auditing procedures and to liaise with the auditors . |
| 13 | They would probably have passed the cottage of Tom and Dolly Hanks without being aware of it had not a window been thrown open unexpectedly . |
| 14 | She had walked down the stairs and for a moment been taken for , and almost become , Kettering 's wife . |
| 15 | This stance was not new but has for a while been taken by Nationalism Today . |
| 16 | Discourse analysts have for over a decade been probing the properties of what has come to be called the conversational ‘ turn ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Seldom has a bone been hyped as much as this one . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ There 's a Daimler been following us . |
| 19 | Well , when , when it comes to talking about er transport in a rural area and , and talking about transport in the Western Isles , er were not talking about buses or trains , were talking about ferries and , and planes and you just wonder when you hear some of the statistics erm from these companies just what sort of service they are at providing to local people , where your talking about ferries at arriving in , in port at half past eleven to half past twelve at night , that 's not a service for local people , I mean you hear about British Airways increasing their domestic fares to er , by seven per cent as of the beginning of April er you just have to ask is this a service been put up provided for er local people , and it just is n't . |
| 20 | Has a corrosion-inhibitor been added after cleaning out the system ? |
| 21 | For example , when dealing with the Vikings , a teacher might start with an account of the first Viking raid on Britain : Never before has such a terror been known in Britain . |
| 22 | However , had the existence of such a beast been discussed , it would have been firmly suppressed by the elder girls and not discussed again , but they would all have had their won fears nevertheless , although these would be of a more ‘ normal ’ manner — the fear would be rational — in its causes at least , although perhaps irrational in its proportions . |
| 23 | Oh no , oh no , oh there were all v very few and far be there may have been local strikes but , such as one day er a grievance been put in and the men struck work just for it . |
| 24 | Indeed , at no election since 1935 has a party obtained more than 50% of the votes cast , yet at only one election since that time has a government been returned without a majority of seats . |
| 25 | In the Labour Code , no legal obligation to provide nursery facilities has been included and only in recent years has a clause been added to the effect that the state will regulate the obligation of employers to maintain nurseries ( Art . |
| 26 | Their society has in a word been bowdlerised . |
| 27 | Questions such as , ‘ Has a word been inserted , removed or altered ? ’ , and ‘ Who made the alterations ? |
| 28 | The move is unprecedented : a substantial number of security force members have in the past been charged and convicted of terrorist-type offences , but never before has such a number been picked up for questioning at one time . |
| 29 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 30 | Erm there 's also a view been expressed that well if you 're going to have it it may need some more guidance than is presently written into it . |