Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [det] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 A police Rover had been parked half-on the pavement , along with a couple of officers ' cars .
5 Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time .
6 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 .
7 It 's only once all these preparations have been done that the family concentrate on decorating their own home .
8 But a heroic act of rescue , splendidly documented , has been done all the same .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 But this time the door had been closed all the way , and she could n't make out what was being said .
14 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 .
15 Could we have been hoodwinked all the way ?
16 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 .
17 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 ?
18 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 . ’
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