Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beryl has been recorded in micaceous pegmatites of the Moine schists in north-west Scotland ( Berridge , 1969 ) . |
| 2 | According to reports in some of the more scurrilous publications , the young American was deeply turned off by this close encounter with the ‘ world 's sexiest female ’ as Kylie has been voted in many teen surveys . |
| 3 | On some days the top of Pea Hill has been bathed in brilliant sunshine , while the valley of the River Wear ahead has been awash in a sea of grey , with tentacles of fog creeping outwards along hedges and gulleys into fields . |
| 4 | Lochranza has been ignored in recent years since the only crossing to Arran is now at Brodick . |
| 5 | Throughout his trials with the Sex Pistols , Richard Branson had been engaged in another , even more delicate negotiation , one which promised , at last , to provide the antidote to the enduring unhappiness over his broken marriage . |
| 6 | While Edward had been preoccupied in northern France , the English position in Aquitaine had deteriorated . |
| 7 | IF DAVID HOCKNEY had been born in 1837 instead of 1937 , he would have become an Olympian rather than a Californian . |
| 8 | ‘ No , of course there has n't , I 'd have known if Dana had been hurt in any way . |
| 9 | According to Jordanian officials Hafez had been recruited in early 1990 during a training course in Germany when he was approached by a female agent for Mossad ( the Israeli intelligence service ) posing as a US civilian . |
| 10 | The Fishing Temple at Sharpham in Devon has been let in this way for many years . |
| 11 | Members : 35 countries from northern , central and southern America and the Caribbean ; Canada formally joined the organization in January 1990 ; Belize and Guyana were admitted in January 1991 ; Cuba had been suspended in 1962 . |
| 12 | COMECON had been created in 1949 at Stalin 's instigation in an effort to co-ordinate the development of East European economies in the post-war period , without having resource to the Marshall Aid Plan being promoted by the United States . |
| 13 | The newest building in the centre of Qara Tappah had been built in 1934 . |
| 14 | After the July 1990 elections the state structure was changed to re-establish a standing parliament ( the Little Hural had been abolished in 1950 ) . |
| 15 | As Bishop Brinton said , it had been to restore a rightful heir to his kingdom and to defeat tyranny that the campaign in northern Spain had been fought in 1367 . |
| 16 | Russia had been mauled in 1915 and forced into general retreat , but she had not been destroyed . |
| 17 | It was the first time that 36-year-old Gilbey had been seen in public since being named as the man on the phone in the love-tapes scandal . |
| 18 | England had been swamped in recent years by publications of every sort on birds , and Gould was not the only one to feel the pressure of increasing competition . |
| 19 | ‘ It is clear that Professor Wybran has been assassinated in cold blood because he was a Jew , ’ it said . |
| 20 | The early essay on Levinas , dating from 1964 , shows the extent to which Derrida has been implicated in such questions from the first — though , contra Norris , he has always shown that the conditions of ‘ writing ’ that make ethics possible also makes them impossible . |
| 21 | Would Mr Amos have been pilloried in this way if the other person had been a female ? |
| 22 | Ernest had been killed in 1940 in an aircraft accident when on duty as a Drogue Operator . |
| 23 | The house in Mouncy Street had been known in this casual society as a place to go . |
| 24 | Rodolfo Salas , a leading member of the illegal Communist Party of the Philippines-Marxist Leninist , on May 14 was convicted of rebellion and sentenced to six years ' and a day in prison ; Salas had been arrested in 1986 [ see p. 34872 ] . |
| 25 | The first glass works in south Yorkshire had been erected in 1632 at Glasshouse Green , Wentworth , on the estate of Sir Thomas Wentworth , the great Earl of Strafford , but it had ceased production before the Civil War . |
| 26 | Crow Valley had been covered in several metres of ash and mud from Mount Pinatubo . |
| 27 | it is clear from the statement of claim that the er plaintiffs retained the defendants from about the ninth of September to act in relation to the purchase of this wine bar which was then known as er the plaintiffs were obtaining finance from the National Westminster Bank in order to purchase this business and the plaintiff Mr had been engaged in long standing discussions with his bank from the earlier part of nineteen eighty five with a view to er agreeing financing facilities for the purchase of the various opportunities that preven present themselves and er he will say and that he makes clear in his witness statement erm that he certainly had understood that from these negotiations the National Westminster Bank were prepared to provide the financing that he required to run this business . |
| 28 | A commission headed by B. P. Mandal had been established in late 1978 to investigate the conditions of the socially and educationally backward classes ( SEBCs ) . |
| 29 | But since Gide has been criticized in this respect it is something which needs to be addressed . |
| 30 | Southey had been born in 1774 above the draper 's shop in Wine Street , Bristol , belonging to his unsuccessful father . |