Example sentences of "been [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was promoted to the Chair in Accountancy and Finance and a number of vacancies in have been filled or are in the process of being filled . |
| 2 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 3 | I think there was a corner in the market that had n't been filled and we were there to do it . |
| 4 | Inside there is a piscina and in the bedrooms can be seen the outline of old windows that have been filled and plastered over . |
| 5 | The Preamble to the new recommendations acknowledged the changes : " Some important gaps in knowledge have been filled and new issues have emerged to challenge the international community . |
| 6 | More than 400 district council seats have been filled and although support for Alliance has improved , the anticipated fall in support for the DUP did not materialise . |
| 7 | It will not rest until the death has been avenged and the murderer punished , when it will fly to the Afterworld and inform the victim of his murderer 's fate . |
| 8 | Yesterday police were still combing the area for any similar devices which may have been hidden and for further clues . |
| 9 | The scratches had been hidden and it now shone like new . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( In the police and civil service an estimated 80 per cent of Albanian employees had been dismissed or had resigned . ) |
| 13 | A few days later the sergeant called to say that the fingerprints on the envelope were not those of the gardener who had been dismissed and that the poor , wronged man had been given back his job . |
| 14 | Second , other employees who had gone to the canteen on commencing a shift had not been dismissed and none of them knew that they risked that penalty . |
| 15 | Many of them have had their terms and conditions reduced , some have been dismissed and they now have no one to turn to as they have turned their back on the Trade Union which is their only guarantee of protection ’ . |
| 16 | Gen. V. Dovgan , a senior military-industrial administrator , had been dismissed and stripped of his rank after it had been revealed that he informally approved the sale of the tanks to ANT , and Deputy Aviation Industry Minister Anatoly Bratukhin had been dismissed for gross violation of arms export regulations . |
| 17 | Ung Phan , Minister of Communications , Transport and Posts , had been dismissed and arrested along with five Army and Foreign Ministry officials . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments about the policies that we have been pursuing and economic prosperity in the Province , where we have seen advances in recent years . |
| 20 | Now that the Apple Computer Inc v Microsoft Corp lawsuit has been defanged and the only thing standing between Bill Gates and world domination is the Federal Trading Commission — see page three : there may be more truth than not in the observation that Microsoft wants IBM to have OS/2 so they ca n't be accused of being a monopoly . |
| 21 | Joni records that , at their first meeting , ‘ after an endless stream of compliments on the execution of my work ’ , Berenson , who had purchased from Torrini an ‘ Alberto Aringhieri in prayer ’ ( fig.2 ) inspired by Pinturicchio 's celebrated fresco in Siena cathedral , ‘ singled out the Aringhieri for special praise , saying that he found it more skilfully done even than the original , which he had been to see and examined just before coming to my studio ’ . |
| 22 | At San Vicente Hospital , when I went to give birth , I met a young woman who had been coerced and she only had three children . |
| 23 | The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality . |
| 24 | When it had been examined and test-flown by the manufacturer 's pilot prior to the revalidation of the microlight 's Permit to Fly both wingtip adjusters had been set at the neutral position with no apparent need for any change . |
| 25 | A number of quartz-carbonate veins bearing copper , zinc , lead , silver and gold have been examined and massive volcanogenic sulphide mineralisation has been confirmed . |
| 26 | Lorry driver Bill , 51 , of Merthyr Tydfil , South Wales , said yesterday : ‘ I was in so much pain I could n't dress myself after I had been examined and needed a wheelchair . ’ |
| 27 | He went on to report that on the previous Saturday , Field 's case had come before Mr.Justice Heath ; three of the four witnesses had been examined and there had been no evidence to prove that the deceased had received blows on her stomach , the diseased state of which organ caused her death . |
| 28 | So our boards , sails , operating methods , safety boats and staff have been examined and approved by the highest UK national authority . |
| 29 | The case law upon this point has already been examined and should be referred to for the purposes of the discussion which follows . |
| 30 | The C. and A.G. , after satisfying himself that the vouchers have been examined and certified as correct by the accounting department , may , in his discretion and having regard to the character of the departmental examination , in any particular case admit the sum so certified without further evidence of payment in support of the charges to which they relate … ‘ |