Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If accountability had been enhanced , profligate councillors would have been dismissed from office and replaced by more prudent ones . |
| 2 | Other prospects include Cligga Head , a greisenised granite on the north Cornwall coast which has been examined by adits and drilling , and Redmoor , where drilling has shown a large , low-grade sheeted vein swarm up to 80 m wide and several hundred metres long . |
| 3 | He joins a general strike by those who have been dispossessed on Urras and tells them : ‘ ( on Anarres ) we have nothing but our freedom . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I 've always been fascinated by stamps and used to collect them when I was younger . |
| 5 | He has since been sacked by Nalgo and has debts of £10,000 . |
| 6 | " Thousand " and " hundred " have been treated as numerals and added together . |
| 7 | Some 60 letters written by Sir William Hillary to the Institution between 1824 and 1845 and now in the RNLI 's archives have recently been treated for preservation and placed in a presentation box — the cost being met from money raised by the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society . |
| 8 | The 21 year old had been treated for depression and had been prescribed tablets by his doctor on 15 occasions . |
| 9 | He has been plagued by injuries and has only started four first team games this season . |
| 10 | A regimen combining etoposide , adriamycin , and cisplatinum ‘ EAP ’ has been developed in Germany and applied to 145 patients with locally advanced disease . |
| 11 | Mini-Enterprise is already well established in many schools , having been developed within SCIP and promoted since Industry Year , by the DTI 's Mini-Enterprise in Schools Project . |
| 12 | As for the fuller versions of the migration , as preserved in Fredegar 's Chronicle and in the Liber Historiae Francorum , they may have been written in response to the origin legends of the Goths , which had been developed by Cassiodorus and preserved by Jordanes . |
| 13 | There is no standardized definition of child abuse that has been developed by researchers and accepted by welfare professionals . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , it is for these displays of nature 's most powerful forces at work that volcanoes are chiefly known , and in almost all primitive societies they have been regarded with fear and identified with deities and evil spirits . |
| 15 | Another 60,000 had been punished for misdeeds but retained their party membership , while a further 120,000 were still under investigation . |
| 16 | It 's the noise element which could yet be their finest asset : if baggydom has been polluted by feyness and undermined by limp-wristed disinterest , then there 's a huge gap in which hectic ( but tuneful ) arse-kickers can make their mark . |
| 17 | Some would have been formed into bomb-ketches and armed with mortars and howitzers . |
| 18 | They too had been consulted by FitzGerald and had responded favourably . |
| 19 | In the present case disclosure by Mr. and Mrs. Tully of their dealings and documents with the affairs and money of Abbey and its subsidiaries will enable the plaintiffs to complete their investigation and to trace the fate of moneys paid by Wessex and moneys which were received or ought to have been received by Abbey and to recover such moneys and to recover damages for any wrongful dealings with those moneys . |
| 20 | A mountainous enclave of about 4,400 square kilometres , Nagorno-Karabakh had originally been assigned to Armenia but had then been transferred to the jurisdiction of its traditionally Muslim neighbour . |
| 21 | All of these bodies had either been confined to MPs or had been expressions of ‘ Political Dissent ’ and had overlapped in membership , support and aims ; all had been shunned by most Methodists . |
| 22 | Five miles outside Machynlleth in central Wales the centre occupies a disused quarry which has been surrounded with windmills and filled with gleaming solarpanels . |
| 23 | You have been surrounded by speech and using it for most of your life . |
| 24 | If only he had not caught nits and been sent home from school , fallen in the beck , lost his shoes , been attacked by Rosie or injured his hand just because he was too cowardly to follow Buddie 's instructions . |
| 25 | It was in direct reprisal for their raid on British ships in Scapa Flow a few nights before when bombs had been dropped on land and killed one civilian . |
| 26 | Both men were typical members of the new class of civil servants , who had been educated at university and styled themselves " master " . |
| 27 | And , a point of critical importance , he himself had been educated by churchmen and shared , if not their institutional loyalty , then many of their aims and ideals . |
| 28 | After initial successes , Cunningham 's offensive had been outflanked by Rommel and brought to a standstill . |
| 29 | Each plant had been rolled in paper and wetted before being sealed in the bag . |
| 30 | One consequence of this boom was the large scale corporate invasion of the estate agency sector , a sector that had previously been dominated by mediumD and smallD sized firms . |