Example sentences of "been [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , the major underlying conflict , stoked up by personality clashes between union leaders , has been between the industrial union ethos of the NUR and the continuing craft aspirations of ASLEF . |
| 2 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 3 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 4 | Littlewoods has been through the classic problems of succession for a company built by a single man . |
| 5 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 6 | We are often talking about young people who have been through the entire menu of alternatives to imprisonment before they are sent to a young offenders institution , formerly known as a detention centre . |
| 7 | ‘ This case has been through the due process of law , has been carefully considered at every stage and reviewed at frequent intervals . |
| 8 | Having watched Leeds from an early age when my father was a season ticket holder in the 60's , I have been through the good times and the bad times . |
| 9 | Well , I 've , I did n't look er erm I can see deficiencies in what I 've done now you 've been through the other |
| 10 | It could be about particular authors who 've been through the public-school system , or even about the way the system works at close hand . |
| 11 | Written by Sarah Daniels , it is being performed by Clean Break , a theatre company mounting professional productions performed by women who have been through the criminal justice system , including ex-prisoners , ex-probationers and those committed at some time to secure observation and psychiatric units . |
| 12 | Having been through the usual bass/guitar/drum formative years , they 've moved sideways to a shiny guitar/keyboard sound which draws on the good bits of the early '80s , without being retro . |
| 13 | His father said last night : ‘ I have been through the usual Foreign Office channels . |
| 14 | I think the one clear thing to come out from my study is that erm with very careful preparation and with adequate thought about teaching methods that a school can successfully go over to mixed ability teaching without any necessary impact on the standards of performance of the pupils , and this has really been justified recently in the O level results of pupils who have now been through the mixed ability system and finished their O levels in the school . |
| 15 | And this has really been justified recently in the ‘ O ’ level results of pupils who have now been through the mixed ability system and finished their ‘ O ’ levels in the school , and they performed well — in some areas better than the streamed pupils did previously . |
| 16 | Unlike North America the involvement of government in economic life has been through the increased regulation of the private sector ; in the U K it has resulted in the public ownership of the industries or utilities concerned . |
| 17 | Pat in EastEnders and Bet in Coronation Street who were both , I think , wonderful before they got married have really become very boring now that they 've got husbands , and Rita , of course , has been through the terrible chastening and disempowering experience of a ‘ film noir ’ femme fatale . |
| 18 | I 'm , I 'm an alternative medicine practitioner and I tend to get a lot of people who are depressed coming to see me , people who have been through the normal routes |
| 19 | Some of the delay is inevitably due to the way in which the applicant , having been through the preliminary investigation and the visit from the occupational therapist , considers the scheme proposed for him before proceeding to the formal application stage . |
| 20 | Would anyone like to take up the challenge of demystifying this article ; and how would Tania Guha herself ‘ rewrite ’ it if it were to be read by those ‘ others ’ who have not yet been through the intellectual sieve of the university hierarchy ? |
| 21 | Erm I must say I share Peter 's view here that the er location of the new settlement , whether in general terms or by district , has not been through the public consultation process . |
| 22 | Erm Ryedale District , as can be seen from the table supplied by Greater York , has taken the largest proportion of the Greater York housing element over the past ten years , as regards the proposed level of future housing growth suggested for the Greater York area , the District Council supports the figure in the structure plan , the Greater York study identified a number of sites around the Greater York area which could accommodate further development without compromising greenbelt objectives or adversely affecting the character of the settlements surrounding York , and within that part of Southern Ryedale within the Greater York area the identified sites were , by and large , incorporated into the Southern Ryedale local plan , which has recently been through the public enquiry , the District Council does not believe that a larger amount of land could be identified within Southern Ryedale , without compromising greenbelt objectives . |
| 23 | Sadly , though , we have in the past year been through the painful process of shedding a large number of jobs . |
| 24 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 25 | We 've been through the whole thing with adoption ! |
| 26 | Food which has been through the steaming mode has an appetizing colour , is cooked al dente ( still firm when bitten ) , and retains all the important nutrients , vitamins and minerals . |
| 27 | On the whole , they had either been through the English education system and had therefore a good command of English and a limited domestic register in their other languages , or they had been educated abroad and learnt their English as adults when they arrived in this country . |
| 28 | L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men , most of whom had been through the basic training course . |
| 29 | Despite having been through the regulatory mangle time again and time again , the group still has the potential to generate a lot of cash , and yields about 8 p.c. on forecasts for 1993 . |
| 30 | ‘ If it had not been for the Liberal Democrats , the government would have lost . ’ |