Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |
| 2 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 3 | Finally , it should be pointed out that one of the grounds on which under section 432 the Secretary of State may appoint inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs of a company is that ‘ the company 's members have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs which they might reasonably expect ’ — whether or not that information is such that they have an express statutory right to be told it . |
| 4 | When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son . |
| 5 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 6 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |
| 7 | She was beginning to attract attention in dramatic roles but had never been given such an opportunity for anguished emotion , and she rose to it whole-heartedly . |
| 8 | The arch of Porta Romana ai Bastioni , to give it its full title , was built in 1598 to commemorate Margherita of Austria leaving the city on her way to marry Philip III of Spain , although the ramparts into which it was fitted had been erected half a century before . |
| 9 | A police Rover had been parked half-on the pavement , along with a couple of officers ' cars . |
| 10 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |
| 11 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 12 | It 's only once all these preparations have been done that the family concentrate on decorating their own home . |
| 13 | But a heroic act of rescue , splendidly documented , has been done all the same . |
| 14 | However , the following month the Dalai Lama met with United States President Bush in Washington , although on previous visits to the USA he had not been granted such a meeting ; China made a strong protest to the USA . |
| 15 | It is widely believed that if Labour 's national executive had acted on his report in the mid-1970s about the need to root out Militant Tendency from within the party , then the movement would have been saved all the subsequent turmoil in the 1980s , by which time Militant had gained a grip . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
| 17 | It was difficult , even though she had been told all the problems of Gesner , to continue to hold oneself together in the face of such blatant hatred . |
| 18 | They have been handed all the debt recovery work of Westminster City Council in one of the biggest steps by a local authority in the contracting out process . |
| 19 | We would n't have chosen to move back into town at this time , but having been offered such a good space , we did n't want to turn it down . |
| 20 | But this time the door had been closed all the way , and she could n't make out what was being said . |
| 21 | We were in a small courtyard into which had been crammed half a dozen hutches and garden-shed-type constructions . |
| 22 | He told a news conference at the club 's White Hart Lane ground : ‘ I 've been threatened , spat on , chased after and have been called all the names under the sun . |
| 23 | The other reason for looking for an approximate solution is that once it has been found such an approximate solution can then be worked upon and modified to give a much better solution . |
| 24 | Could we have been hoodwinked all the way ? |
| 25 | But he had been woken half an hour earlier . |
| 26 | If however , there was no open way remaining , then the rising main must have been brought all the way up to the top of the shaft . |
| 27 | A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ? |
| 28 | Ginguene 's most valuable next sentence suggests that the director 's baton had been waved all the time : it ‘ indicated by its strokes the end of each so-called bar and , by the various signs that it traced in the air , the various interpolations or divisions of that bar . ’ |
| 29 | The project director , Marilyn Standley , commented : ‘ The building is being designed to reflect the personality and concerns of the company and its staff , and we are delighted at having been awarded such a high environmental score . ’ |
| 30 | In the hall hung the amputated blade of an oar : inscribed in gold lettering on its black scoop were the names of a college eight , each of whom had been awarded such a trophy in sun-ridden pre-war days ; the item seemed impossibly exotic . |