Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] in [pron] " in BNC.

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1 When Margaret returns once more to Helstone , educated in reality by the industrial north , she is still grieved to find that it has disappeared and that a new one , tidy and respectable , has been built in its place .
2 Sufficient has been written in your columns about the latter match so I will not repeat the facts .
3 Marani has been assisted in his efforts by a highly distinguished panel of scholars including Giulio Carlo Argan , Antonio Paolucci , John Pope-Henessy , Craig Hugh Smyth and Giovanni Testori .
4 Now a new method has been developed in which badgers can be trapped , and tested on site , the results being available immediately .
5 For example , if you worked with a seed head , you could show a sample of the plant from a side view and another viewed from straight on , a stem and some leaves with a tiny piece of root attached to create a very attractive design , but only do this if the plant has been grown in your garden or in that of a friend .
6 Shaun , five , has been locked in his own lonely world since he was 18months-old .
7 Shaun , five , has been locked in his own lonely world since he was 18months-old .
8 ‘ By reason of the words published on 17 September 1989 and the words and graph published on 24 September 1989 the plaintiff council has been injured in its credit and reputation and has been brought into public scandal , odium and contempt , and has suffered loss and damage .
9 No case has been observed in which this strip contains such material and fails to announce the fact .
10 If A has been disturbed in his possession by a trespass committed by B , or even if B has deprived A of possession , A's claim to legal protection or redress against B can not be met by B's plea that C and not A is the true owner .
11 Too much hope , to much sacrifice , has been invested in it .
12 Energy in one form or another has been invested in it to get it up there .
13 ‘ Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing . ’
14 Part of the progress that has been made in our area has been the establishment of the Shropshire training and enterprise council .
15 Everything wears the face of despatch ; every article of our produce becomes more valuable ; and the hinge upon which all these movements turn is the reformation which has been made in our public roads .
16 ‘ I trust some progress has been made in my absence . ’
17 This strong international potential may well be one of the reasons why Philips has been joined in its CD-I initiative by partners such as Sony and Matsushita .
18 Until payment of the damages , however , the plaintiff retains his property in the goods and may exercise all his rights as owner even after judgment has been given in his favour .
19 The bovine gall bladder model has been studied in our laboratory and we have shown that there are striking similarities in the composition of bovine and human bile apart from cholesterol concentration , which is five times less in cattle compared with human bile ( unpublished data ) .
20 Vickers , one of the most trusted Royal writers and a regular contributor to Harpers & Queen , has been absorbed in his subject since the age of twelve .
21 Now that the Croatian Commission has been confirmed in its role , and the archaeologist who first put pressure on the government in Belgrade to put in the claim has become Minister of Culture , we may begin to see some of the evidence they say they have collected .
22 Last week it admitted its 400th member , the Swedish-owned United Securities Fondkommission , the first time that level has been reached in its 300-year history .
23 Since then the effigy has been displayed in his highly decorated sarcophagus , dressed in sumptuous clothes embroidered with gold and silver thread and studded with precious and semi-precious stones .
24 A moral climate has been created in which collective responsibility has become unfashionable .
25 A curd which has been soaking in its own whey makes an acid cheese ( which explains the often sharp taste of Eastern Mediterranean white cheeses which are sometimes stored in whey ) .
26 What hinders that you should put off all dispute until you are there , and hear all that has been discovered in your absence ?
27 The Blackrag Madonna nods as he speaks , then whispers to a scrap of a follower who has been hiding in her robes throughout the interview .
28 Nonetheless , perhaps one answer could be the drive and determination for which Clavell has been noted in his subsequent career .
29 An eighty five year old woman has been attacked in her bed by two men who then ransacked her house .
30 The origins of Gdansk go back to the 10th Century and its historic centre has been preserved in its ancient style .
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