Example sentences of "been [verb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , being , a cunning old devil and a bit of a peeping tom , ( a purvoyeur ) , he knew where every valuable had been hidden and late one night he removed everything leaving the holes empty . |
| 2 | The appearance in the Tripoli courtroom of the two suspects , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , disproved persistent US suggestions that they had been hidden or even executed by the Libyan authorities . |
| 3 | Mr Gould moved on to Brussels , where his anti-EEC inclinations — which have been hidden though never abandoned in recent years — became entrenched . |
| 4 | Given that the recognition of the significance of portal hypertension in portopulmonary hypertension is recent , it is possible that other cases of PBC associated primary PHT have been dismissed as merely associated with liver disease . |
| 5 | Yet the Africanness of those wars has meanwhile been obscured by the outbreak in Europe of tribal fights that would once have been dismissed as typically African . |
| 6 | Another unexpected disappearance from the scene was that of the defence minister himself , Adnan Khairallah , the President 's cousin , reported early in 1989 as having been dismissed and later to have died in a helicopter crash . |
| 7 | Victory was all too easy in this lopsided match and if this had been a boxing contest it would have surely been stopped after barely a quarter of the game had elapsed . |
| 8 | Both carburettors have been overhauled and then ret up on a crypton machine . |
| 9 | It also dates 1st century and could have been intended as either a key or a knife handle ( although the fact that it has a circular socket favours its use as a key handle ) . |
| 10 | While the referendum had not been intended as legally binding by the government , on the strength of the result the Supreme Council on Feb. 11 adopted a constitutional law proclaiming Lithuania " an independent democratic republic " . |
| 11 | Well we 've been targeting as well |
| 12 | A number of ancient suture zones representing previous plate collisions have been recognized but only a few of these , such as the Urals and the Appalachians formed 300 to 250 MaBP , are major relief features at the present day , most having been extensively eroded and covered by later sediments . |
| 13 | As many as 60 political parties were believed to have been legalized or freshly created during the 13 months following the publication in December 1989 of the draft joint constitution for a unified Yemen . |
| 14 | We have therefore sought only one in-depth interview with each family so far , about six months after the positive screening test ; any other direct contact with the families has been limited and only when sought by them . |
| 15 | But some children do relapse into bedwetting once the alarm has been withdrawn and so re-treatment may be necessary in about one-third of children ( Turner 1973 ) . |
| 16 | I find her difficult to handle and my soundings are that she is deeply unpopular in Fleet St. She is also said to be extremely bitter about the way she has been treated and evidently stands to make millions from various lawsuits . |
| 17 | He said the figures , ‘ implied that everyone removed from a hospital waiting list has been treated when blatantly that is not the case . |
| 18 | What is now required is a large scale , well co-ordinated research programme on the products from all known kilns , many of which have been excavated but never published . |
| 19 | Martinsville , USA : The three industrial products businesses within Courtaulds Films , covering dyed films , vacuum coating and coating/laminating , have been decentralised and now operate as closely linked but separate businesses . |
| 20 | Charles , who had been criticized as increasingly authoritarian during her 10 years in office , dismissed opposition complaints by claiming that " we have always realized that elections do n't throw up the best people " . |
| 21 | The crisis of resources in public education has also brought to a head questions about the relevance of the present curriculum , which has been criticized as too academic and élitist , and the rigidity of the education system generally . |
| 22 | The company 's timetable for evaluating the results of the tests has also been criticized as too tight . |
| 23 | Consequently , many proposals which are approved have , because of these checks , been highlighted as apparently contrary to approved local policies and local views . |
| 24 | Lesion studies have their own problems of interpretation , while other methods which might conceivably be used to establish cerebral dominance , such as dichaptic stimulation and the dual-task technique , have not been validated nor widely adopted in experiments with large numbers of left handers . |
| 25 | ‘ But a meeting has been arranged and hopefully the accountants can clear it up . ’ |
| 26 | The Russian Ministry of the Interior reports that , in the first six months of this year , 2,211 crimes in that field have been registered and about 10,000 works of art stolen from State museums and private collectors . |
| 27 | [ No shares or other securities of the Company have been registered or otherwise qualified for sale or resale under Federal or State laws in the United States of America or Canada . |
| 28 | In Britain alone , it has been calculated that about 200,000 people may be bitten by dogs each year . |
| 29 | Relative organ size his been calculated as before . |
| 30 | A complete set of software tools to aid the physical mapping of a genome has been developed and successfully applied to the genomic mapping of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe . |