Example sentences of "[coord] [been] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of people have ‘ disappeared ’ or been extrajudicially executed after being abducted by members of the security forces . |
| 2 | Once an action becomes defended there is to be a fixed period within which the parties will be required either to set the case down for trial , on the assumption that it has not been settled or been otherwise disposed of , or to report to the court . |
| 3 | Within a few weeks of the payout , Mr Curtis claimed , £1 million had vanished from their Inca Gemstones company , and been partly used for ‘ unlawful or improper purposes , ’ hidden from shareholders . |
| 4 | Joe had once taken Rose Macaulay to a Billy Graham revivalist , fundamentalist mass meeting and been utterly revolted by all the rabid emotionalism and the militant Christianity , and he reminded me what Graham had said about Kinsey : ‘ It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America . ’ |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I am very pleased that this operation , which has involved a whole range of bodies and been well co-ordinated by Scottish Natural Heritage , has been so successful . ’ |
| 6 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 7 | He talked about events in the Middle Ages as if they 'd happened-yesterday and been fully aired on the nine o'clock news . |
| 8 | After the exhibition of Canova 's work and related sculpture organised by the Fondazione Memmo at Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome , the nucleus of the show , including ten statues from the Hermitage , has moved to Venice and been greatly added to by further loans . |
| 9 | We have lived in Birmingham for 18 months and been totally absorbed in familiarising ourselves with our own local environment , and all I knew of Highgate , Sparkhill , Sparkbrook and Small Heath was where they are on a map . |
| 10 | In 1972 he had suggested independence as Ulster 's best course and been severely criticized by Paisley and others . |