Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already discussed the improbability of the entire aircraft , its crew and its troops disappearing totally over land ; though , of course , had it come down in enemy-occupied territory , nothing might ever have been known of the matter if all the occupants had perished , and certainly not if any survivors had been disposed of ( which , given the purpose of their mission , would have been highly probable ) . |
| 2 | However , as I could now see , a vast area behind the shops had been cleared of housing and turned into an enormous shopping centre . |
| 3 | Several lists have been made of useful hints . |
| 4 | Schools have been accused of neglecting economic and industrial understanding and its relationship with social standards ; partnerships have the opportunity to improve the quality of this aspect of the curriculum . |
| 5 | Just as schools have been accused of creating pupils with learning difficulties , it is possible to argue that schools create disruptive pupils . |
| 6 | ‘ Our clients have been informed of the situation by letter and I would like to reassure them that their holidays and their money are safe . ’ |
| 7 | It also assumes that there has been no hidden export of Leicestershire 's residents to cheap ( and possibly nasty ) nursing homes elsewhere in Britain , a practice that some other health districts have been accused of . |
| 8 | Apart from the vandalism problems they 've had , where whole trainload of cars have been stripped of the radios . |
| 9 | Video pictures have been released of a man who tried to snatch a baby girl from her pushchair . |
| 10 | The Regional Secretaries have been advised of the position and regularly updated on the position . |
| 11 | Recently , methods have been devised of producing ever-more complex chips , and the modern trend is toward very large scale integration ( VLSI ) chips , on which there can be more than 10,000 components on a single chip . |
| 12 | Savings have been disposed of in order to meet the growing gap between income and expenditure . |
| 13 | Just as the governmental structure has been modified in response to political demands , so the responsibilities of government have grown as greater social and economic demands have been made of it . |
| 14 | It also reports that ‘ Labour supporters have been accused of a hate campaign against the Tory candidate challenging Neil Kinnock in Islwyn , Gwent . |
| 15 | This happens when the murderer has maintained pressure until death ; the vessels have been emptied of blood and the heart stops beating before the hands are removed . |
| 16 | This is the first time that books have been disposed of in this way . |
| 17 | If not , the ratification of Maastricht should not be taken as a signal that the Europe of the past few decades has been assured of perpetuity , but rather that a redefinition of its ambitions is overdue . |
| 18 | The defendants had been accused of orchestrating an illegal scheme to boost the value of Guinness shares above their normal market levels , at the time of Guinness 's ultimately successful takeover bid for the Distillers Company in 1986 . |
| 19 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 20 | Though the making of contracts with crews had been required of shipowners and masters for more than a century , these had , it seems , been corrupted by the inclusion of conditions which even the courts regarded as outrageous . |
| 21 | Some reformers have been accused of either exaggerating or misunderstanding contemporary developments . |
| 22 | Many defendants have been fined of more than a thousand pounds , simnplky because they earned reasonable salries . |
| 23 | Parents have been warned of a two-month delay for pelican lights at Southmoor , Cumbria . |
| 24 | It does not believe that all parents have been informed of their rights under the Act and it is critical of the lack of training for parent governors . |
| 25 | National prejudices have waned ; stereotyped " feudalism " has been demolished ; Carolingian government has been newly appraised ; reassessments have been offered of Louis the Pious , of the Vikings , even of the ninth-century Frankish nobility . |
| 26 | Five companies have been accused of ignoring dangerous faults on the platform . |
| 27 | Various criticisms have been made of McClellan 's ideas , and some of these are reported in his chapter ‘ Critique and counter-critique ’ . |
| 28 | Recent criticisms have been made of several aspects of this approach . |
| 29 | A number of methodological criticisms have been made of these studies which cast serious doubt on the validity of their findings . |
| 30 | However , despite an increase in collaborative ventures criticisms have been made of this form of organisation . |