Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 2 | She 'd been robbed of words , had no speech to tell him to stop this glorious torture , could only groan deep in her throat as his questing fingers flickered over one nipple , bringing it to prominent life even through the material of her leotard . |
| 3 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 4 | ‘ Nor would you , mate , ’ Parks said defensively , ‘ if you 'd been accused of murder . |
| 5 | His face was set and hard ; except for the muscle knotting in his jaw , he looked as if he 'd been sculpted of stone . |
| 6 | For example , the final black-hole state is independent of whether the body that collapsed was composed of matter or antimatter , and whether it was spherical or highly irregular in shape . |
| 7 | He took the tube from a drawer , and when the desk-top had been cleared of papers the plans were spread open . |
| 8 | It had been cleared of papers ; the typewriter was covered and the chair pushed firmly into place . |
| 9 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
| 10 | The anger was triggered by a clash between photographers and bodyguards outside a toy store that had been cleared of shoppers so that Jackson could go on a shopping spree . |
| 11 | The night seemed light , the moon was scudding between white clouds , showing up the white world beyond the drive that had been cleared of snow . |
| 12 | The concrete paths had been cleared of snow and ice . |
| 13 | However , as I could now see , a vast area behind the shops had been cleared of housing and turned into an enormous shopping centre . |
| 14 | Constructed in a hexagon shape , it had been built of logs , now darkened with age . |
| 15 | He was reported to have said that the killing was ordered from prison by a Jihad leader Sawfat Abdel Ghani , who had been convicted of involvement in the killing of al-Mahgoub . |
| 16 | It was later revealed that Mr Argles had employed a boy who had been convicted of offences against young children . |
| 17 | William Joyce had been convicted of treason on the grand scale . |
| 18 | By a curious twist of fate Kuzmitch later defected to the CIA by which time Blake had been convicted of spying , one of the charges being that he contravened the Official Secrets Act in November 1951 while still in captivity . |
| 19 | Bilzerian had been convicted of securities fraud by a federal jury in New York on June 9 , following evidence from Boyd Jefferies , a Los Angeles stockbroker convicted for securities fraud in the Ivan Boesky affair [ see pp. 36017-18 ] , who had been fined $250,000 and placed on probation for five years in July 1989 . |
| 20 | Two senior policemen were suspended after the Court of Appeal decided that a junior colleague had been convicted of robbery on fabricated evidence . |
| 21 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 22 | The Libyan Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation Secretary Ibrahim Bashari claimed on April 27 that the air embargo had led to the deaths of " hundreds of children " who would otherwise have received medical treatment abroad or who had been deprived of vaccines which had to be imported . |
| 23 | Fury returned as he thought how he had been cheated of glory by a treacherous piece of turf , when it had not even been his turn to lead ! |
| 24 | It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life . |
| 25 | The PRD , whose supporters proclaimed their candidate Cristóbal Arias as the rightful new state governor , produced copies of every PRD ballot paper in an attempt to prove that Arias had been cheated of victory by the PRI in the July 12 state elections in Michoacán , home state of the PRD 's founder , Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano [ see pp. 39000-01 ] . |
| 26 | Pardy was right and he could n't prove handwriting , because the letter had been formed of scraps of newsprint in the classic way . |
| 27 | He had resigned from his political offices in September 1990 [ see pp. 37719-20 ] after evidence had been uncovered of irregularities in the city budget and of personal tax evasion . |
| 28 | In May Justice Minister Kinkel announced that priority was to be given to the rehabilitation and compensation of victims of the SED regime , ahead of pursuing those accused of committing crimes or of assessing compensation claims of those who had been dispossessed of property by the regime . |
| 29 | It has interested me very much to learn from the Air Historical Branch of the Royal Air Force that after the war , since nothing had been heard of Warrant Officer Crane 's Stirling , its crew and S.A.S. passengers , a search was made of the Morvan region . |
| 30 | Prof Catford said two studies had been undertaken of family doctors ' attitudes to health promotion and their own health . |