Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of February all basic services had broken down or had been withdrawn and a mass evacuation of non-Bougainvilleans ( both foreigners and Papua New Guineans from other provinces ) was under way . |
| 2 | In total , 30 cm of ileum , 60 cm of jejunum , and the complete colon had been resected and an ileosigmoidostomy was performed . |
| 3 | The old political domination of governing bodies has largely been broken and a typical governors ' meeting is a business session not a social occasion . |
| 4 | One arm and one leg had been broken and an eye had been gouged out . |
| 5 | A couple of chairs , plastic with the appearance of cast-iron painted white , had been knocked over , a glass had been broken and an empty whisky bottle lay on what he would call , with his expertise , ‘ the pooldeck ’ . |
| 6 | Commoners have been consulted and a public report will be published , before the controversial Bill is put forward . |
| 7 | When the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , a series of inner area studies , commissioned by the government , had been completed and a White Paper , Policy for the Inner Cities , had been issued two years previously . |
| 8 | The first phase of the Trust 's Environmental Audit , announced in the summer 1990 issue of the magazine , has now been completed and a programme has been approved which should result in the principles of environmental protection being more firmly entrenched in the Trust 's activities . |
| 9 | At the present time , the development stage of the " persons " system has been completed and a number of reports and listings are produced for each location ; these include : strength return ( report ) nominal roll ( listing ) retirement lists ( listing ) etc The number of regular reports has deliberately been kept to a minimum to prevent managers from being besieged with information . |
| 10 | On the timing of negotiations on the prospective EC membership of those European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) states which had submitted applications , the meeting stated that official negotiations should not start until ratification of the Maastricht Treaty had been completed and a decision on the Delors II package had been taken . |
| 11 | Furthermore , it is necessary for a merger to have been completed and a dominant position created before Article 86 can be invoked . |
| 12 | Children 's entertainment has n't been forgotten and a child 's fair , including mechanical rides , swings and a roundabout will also be operating on the site . |
| 13 | As exhausted members gathered their breath after Brush 's super show the old maxim that an army marches on its stomach had not been forgotten and a superb hot supper was served , washed down with a lively cocktail of pints , shorts and anecdotes of events of old . |
| 14 | His mattress had been slashed and a machine used to feed him intravenously was broken . |
| 15 | We would advise that the policy has therefore been cancelled and a full refund of premiums for 1991 has been made to your mortgage account . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It has not been cancelled and a firm decision will be taken nearer the time , ’ she said . |
| 17 | On 16 October 1991 , after a hearing in chambers to consider wasted costs after the jury in a criminal trial had been discharged and a retrial ordered , Judge MacRae made an order against the appellant , H. , a barrister who had acted as defence counsel at the trial , disallowing ‘ such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the initial trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial … ’ under the provisions of section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , as inserted by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 18 | An announcement the same day on the national radio said that Traoré 's government had been dissolved and a 17-member National Reconciliation Council ( CNR ) formed under the chairmanship of Lt.-Col. Amadou Toumani Toure , commander of the parachute regiment . |
| 19 | Dust extraction plant had been installed and a vacuum cleaning system became operational . |
| 20 | If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch . |
| 21 | If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch . |
| 22 | But the caller — who used a recognised IRA code-word — did n't reveal which hotel had been targeted and a massive security operation got underway . |
| 23 | The much improved property in Roby Road , Liverpool 14 , has been rewired and a new roof has been fitted . |
| 24 | A well had been prepared and a brick-kiln built ; about 85,000 bricks had been burned . |
| 25 | It is only after much empirical data has been collected and a series of simple relationships , close to reality , have been established , that either precise hypotheses can be enunciated for testing or theory derived inductively from empirical data . |
| 26 | In order to excavate the site itself , a new road had been built and a viaduct constructed to carry it across the valley before it climbed through the wooded hillside to the rocky crag chosen for the location of the church which formed the heart of the project . |
| 27 | This can be a costly business , as since 1892 these volumes have been illuminated and a calligrapher may now charge £75 to £100 for an entry . |
| 28 | Churches have been vandalised and an altar built for the pope 's visit was burned down . |
| 29 | After the girl had calmed down enough to operate her scanning equipment , a number of hairline fractures had been revealed and a torn muscle . |
| 30 | The decision to operate in Devon had been made and a suitable ( thatched ) cottage to live in had been found . |