Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [vb pp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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91 Nothing has been decided either way . ’
92 An intelligence officer in Malaya , Captain Patrick Heenan , has been named this week as the traitor who guided Japanese bombers onto British airfields , allowing a rapid advance and the fall of Singapore .
93 The FBI has been summoned several times to tackle problems the local police could not handle .
94 What you see now has been rebuilt several times , although the medieval foundations still exist .
95 TREVOR FRANCIS has been promised more cash for new players despite Sheffield Wednesday 's debts of around £2 million .
96 Trevor Francis has been promised more cash for new players , despite Sheffield Wednesday 's £2m debt .
97 He has been pursued all year by race fan Newman and his Chicago business partner Carl Haas .
98 Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense .
99 But if no decision has been taken either way , then the court should be free to decide on the merits , making the best decision for the future , though of course taking into account strategic consistency . "
100 In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) .
101 Notwithstanding problems of this kind there has been undoubted improvement in VDU design and it has been speculated that trade union pressure for high design standards has been a major stimulus to companies marketing their products on the basis of user acceptability . "
102 The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it .
103 Also in Germany it has been claimed that cartelisation ( reflecting the later date , and a particular mode , of industrialisation ) gave rise to strongly structured employers ' organisations which attained an authority over their members that was never to exist in the smaller diversified and undercapitalised industrial enterprises in France ( Maurice and Sellier , 1979 ) .
104 ARBROATH has been dealt another jobs blow .
105 Perhaps the reason is that she has been persuaded that teacher approval , and whatever other more tangible extrinsic rewards may follow , are in short supply and to gain what she needs she must not simply ( or even necessarily ) improve but also get ( or merely stay ) ahead of others .
106 A new formative assessment for third year students has been introduced this year — namely , an integrated workbook assignment .
107 Finally , a work-based Certificate in Funeral Directing has been introduced this year .
108 Though the theory of a third hand — the interpolator of the epitomist of Jason — has been propounded several times — and even recently by Diego Arenhoevel in his excellent book Die Theokratie nach dem I. und II .
109 British Rail tell us that the 6.30 Aylesbury to Marylebone train service has been cancelled this evening , while the buses continue to operate a trouble-free service .
110 British Rail tell us that the Banbury to Paddington train , which was due to arrive at Oxford at three minutes past seven , has been cancelled this evening , but I 've nothing disadvantageous to report to you from the buses .
111 British Rail tell us that the three minutes past seven train , due into Oxford at three minutes past seven that is , that travels from Banbury to Paddington , has been cancelled this evening .
112 In this article the word ‘ word-processor ’ has been used many times .
113 In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet .
114 He looks promising and has been used this season as a replacment for Wallace .
115 In the past it has been alleged that consent was often less than genuine , the person believing that he had no option but to allow the police the right to enter the premises and search .
116 It has been suggested that sister parties within the Socialist International are not allowed to compete with one another .
117 It has been suggested that alienation from others ( both staff and patients ) on the ward often precedes suicide ( Morgan and Priest 1984 ) .
118 It has been suggested that Methodism generally produced an attitude of mind and sense of resignation as well as the habits of order and " industry " which combined to reinforce in the proletariat the necessary submission to the disciplinary imperatives of industrial capitalism .
119 The mechanism is unknown , although it has been suggested that activation of tumour necrosis factor ( TNF ) may be responsible .
120 It has been suggested that acetylation probably inactivates the drug , as is often the case with hepatic metabolism of drugs .
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