Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember seeing an early plan ( of the Bois de Boulogne ) on which the rivers and other parts of the park had been painted green , in watercolour , by the august consort of the Emperor . |
| 2 | This is not to deny that the opportunity has been made available to question these developments or to call a halt to them . |
| 3 | The CO had been given another obvious cue . |
| 4 | The money had been made available ; that was not the problem . |
| 5 | In a bid to keep the action secret , the case has been called Anonymous I v Anonymous II . |
| 6 | The case has been made that neutralisation is potentially attractive only to relatively minor states that by virtue of their strategic position or symbolic political value have become or threaten to become the focal points of contests for control or dominant influence between principal regional or global rivals . |
| 7 | Yet at 1130 hrs that morning a Corps Commander 's Conference had been held at 5 Corps HQ [ Kp 217 ] at which one of the main topics discussed had been " the Evacuation of the Cossacks to the Russians " and under this heading the decision had been taken that : " Divs will be prepared to shoot at Cossacks to enforce the evacuation plan . " |
| 8 | But already the decision has been given all party support in the House of Lords . |
| 9 | The prisoners have been held incommunicado for eighteen years . |
| 10 | The certificate has been granted interim VQ status by the Employment Department for funding and is available in LCCI approved Centres . |
| 11 | When all the nasties had been driven extinct , there was no way in which any of the nice strategies could be distinguished from Tit for Tat or from each other , because they all , being nice , simply played COOPERATE against each other . |
| 12 | Increased trade with third countries due to this effect and also the induced trade following from the increase in growth stimulated by the creating of the CU have been called external trade creation . |
| 13 | According to the BMJ article , the drug had been considered appropriate in some hospitals for occasional use on children . |
| 14 | The rules have been changed this season to give fans of Second Division sides the opportunity to see first-class opponents . |
| 15 | Seasonal conditions which inhibited or prevented travel on the roads have been made much of by historians , but the mushrooming growth in scheduled services after 1760 is testimony to a substantial improvement in this respect . |
| 16 | The building had been set alight by the killer . |
| 17 | I would agree with that , Chairman , but I think that it should be so considered that the building 's been built first . |
| 18 | The route had been reopened two weeks previously following an attack in January when two people were killed . |
| 19 | Maggie was tempted to that particular plot , for the story had been told that way so many times , and it is very hard , at moments of crisis , to re-cast the language and the shape of old stories . |
| 20 | And er the story 's been told many many times that Lloyd George advised them , I 've forgotten the name of the old man , but his wife was buried in the churchyard , and his family wanted to bury him next to her , but they wanted the nonconformist |
| 21 | N.W. the level had been driven 110 fathoms , and was almost to a sump sinking down from Taylor 's above . |
| 22 | Turning off from the north-south highway some twelve miles north of the Makaa , the track leading to the cabin had been made first by loggers and then improved by a quarrying company some forty years ago . |
| 23 | But the vote has been declared invalid because fewer than half the parents took part in the ballot . |
| 24 | The following sentences have been partially transcribed , but the vowels have been left blank . |
| 25 | She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing . |
| 26 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 27 | His trousers were still on , but the zip had been torn open , and there were few parts of his body tha– were not covered in bruises . |
| 28 | The point is not , as sometimes supposed , that the sovereign had been made divisible . |
| 29 | Tamas had led in a first round of polling on Dec. 9 , but the result had been declared void because the turnout did not reach the necessary 50 per cent [ see p. 37130 ] . |
| 30 | But the court heard that after the defendant had been left alone on the ward with Katie for about ten minutes , she had turned blue and stopped breathing . |