Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The country 's biggest bookseller W.H. Smith based in Swindon have been campaigning against any tax on books . |
| 2 | Bhutto also accused the government of " fabricating " an encounter on May 8-9 with Al Zulfiqar , a terrorist organization alleged by the government to be a militant wing of the PPP , but claimed by Bhutto to have been disbanded almost 10 years previously , in which seven members were reportedly killed , in order to justify its crackdown against the PPP . |
| 3 | All the soldiers who served in Bosnia have been told about the possibility of developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of the atrocities they have seen . |
| 4 | Many of the Officers and other ranks who landed on D-Day have been replaced by faces I have never seen before . |
| 5 | The variety discovered by Safarimoja has been dubbed ‘ mkukumkuku ’ — ‘ by force ’ — because its massive size makes it difficult to uproot . |
| 6 | The last two centuries have brought a variety of attempts in theology to cope with these questions , and both the alternatives bequeathed by Lessing have been followed . |
| 7 | A more equivocal comment that perhaps best sums up the evaluations that led to RCA has been made by Timmons ( 1980 ) : ‘ While these measures [ in soil conservation ] have seldom attained goals , increases in soil erosion were minimised and occasionally soil losses reduced . |
| 8 | Correspondingly , those who wavered towards God have been sent from Heaven to Earth , where ‘ they will be in a certain pain up to the end of the world , but at Doomsday they shall return to Heaven . |
| 9 | The number of people in the UK infected with HIV has been estimated to be up to 100,000 , of whom AIDS had been officially reported in 4228 , by January 1991 . |
| 10 | The waste reimported from Belgium has been stored at a tip in Gorleben , Lower Saxony , against the wishes of the state Environment Minister , former Greenpeace activist Monika Griefen . |
| 11 | Most movement is noted from June to September , and nestlings ringed in Sussex have been recovered on the Continent as early as June in the same year . |
| 12 | A Burgundian kingdom on the Rhine ruled by Guntiarius had been destroyed by the Huns not long before . |
| 13 | I jumped behind Joe to avoid being hit with the stick . |