Example sentences of "a [noun] have been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a contract has been agreed any new instructions and variations to the works potentially cost money ; if the client wishes to control costs it is essential that any such additions are controlled . |
| 2 | For several days he was at death 's door , and a grave had been kept ready in case the worst happened . |
| 3 | But it 's the first time a cell has been set alight since the brand new modern jail was opened . |
| 4 | The sitting-room was long , and looked as if a child had been let loose with buckets of primary colours . |
| 5 | Failing to set the handbrake is sometimes detected when it is too late i.e. when a vehicle has been parked unattended and has then begun to move and run away downhill , perhaps resulting in an accident . |
| 6 | The lad who made a big impact as a 16-year-old has been ignored this season . |
| 7 | At 0430 there are no civilians about , and if a bomb had been planted this would be an ideal time to detonate it . |
| 8 | A body has been reported stranded on the shore on the west side of Kernick Head . ’ |
| 9 | Polemis ( N.C. , 1974 ) the court held that if a person had been given insufficient time , an adjournment must be granted . |
| 10 | Requests for a postdoctoral fellow and for a technician have been refused two , and three times , respectively . |
| 11 | The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) . |
| 12 | A man serving life for murdering a policeman has been found guilty of beating up a prison officer at a high security jail . |
| 13 | In the meantime a jig had been prepared such that the tailplanes could be broken under loads not dissimilar to those they would meet in the air . |
| 14 | A door had been prised open . |
| 15 | A man 's been found guilty of kicking his ex-girlfriend 's dog to death at her home . |
| 16 | A man has been shot dead at his home in Lancashire after he and his family were held hostage by armed raiders . |
| 17 | A MAN has been found dead in a police cell at Greenock , Strathclyde Police said last night . |
| 18 | At the very top of the structure , at the point of the cone , a space had been left open to let in the light . |
| 19 | A WARNING has been given that some council buildings in Clwyd may have to close if maintenance is not carried out . |
| 20 | Strike , riot or civil commotion in respect of which a warning has been given prior to the date this insurance is purchased . |
| 21 | Once a baseline has been established daily weighing is the best guide to fluid gain or loss ( 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram ) . |
| 22 | A TEENAGE ballet dancer who was shot by a thug has been warned one more performance could blind her . |
| 23 | MEN who want children after having a vasectomy have been given new hope . |
| 24 | A bathroom had been laid open like a film set . |
| 25 | Arthur Machen describes in his autobiography how , walking in the hills above Caerleon , he came to a farm , once a Roman villa , where a stone had been found inscribed : ‘ Ave , Julia , carissima conjux ; in aeternum vale . |
| 26 | To protect the spirit of demilitarisation , a convention has been followed that defence spending will not exceed 1 per cent of GNP , and although this ceiling has been broken on a few occasions , the 1 per cent target has a symbolic significance . |
| 27 | In a few cases where a horn has been removed this can be proved by stating so or by an admission on the part of the defendant . |
| 28 | A nurse has been found guilty of assaulting a blind woman of eighty eight . |
| 29 | A company has been fined two thousand pounds for allowing almost fifty gallons of diesel fuel to pollute a river . |
| 30 | A debtor appears unable to pay a debt if the debt is payable immediately and either : ( i ) the petitioning creditor has served on the debtor a statutory demand in the prescribed form requiring him to pay the debt or to secure or compound for it to the satisfaction of the creditor , at least three weeks have elapsed since the demand was served and the demand has been neither complied with nor set aside ( s 268(1) ( a ) ) ; or ( ii ) execution or other enforcement action on a judgment has been returned unsatisfied in whole or in part ( s 268(1) ( b ) ) . |