Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perry was a thick-set , bull-necked man who looked as if he 'd been eased into his suit with a shoe-horn . |
| 2 | AT THE end of Mass , when the children had been dismissed to their schooling with Brother Paul , and only the choir monks were left as awed witnesses , Abbot Radulfus offered a brief and practical prayer for divine guidance , and approached Saint Winifred 's altar . |
| 3 | Like all British officials of the Egyptian Government I had been dismissed from my university post eighteen months before , and I was glad that the British Council was able to offer me a small post in Athens , instead of piece work in Cairo . |
| 4 | Workers say that at least one employee has been dismissed from his job without compensation because of illness caused by pollution from the smelter which also processes arsenic , cadmium and lead — well known to have adverse effects . |
| 5 | President Özal 's brother Korkut Özal , himself a prominent pro-Islamist , had publicly criticized Semra Özal 's move into politics , while the President 's cousin , Husnu Dogan , had been dismissed from his post as Minister of Defence in February , reportedly after voicing similar criticisms [ see p. 38022 ] . |
| 6 | In August Wojtowicz had been dismissed from his post and five people , including senior officials of state banks , had been arrested ; following the Art-B scandal the Sejm approved laws to tighten the central bank 's powers of supervision . |
| 7 | Just before the accident , he had snatched his favourite toy from his brother and had been stopped by his mother from hitting him over the head . |
| 8 | In such a situation the true owner may have been divested of his claim against the wrongdoer under section 8(2) ( d ) but if not , he might still be entitled to sue by virtue of his title . |
| 9 | Hence in the present case Mr. Dennis had not been divested of his interest under the joint tenancy when his wife died . |
| 10 | ( On Sept. 7 , at the end of a two-day debate for which the UK House of Commons had been recalled from its summer recess , the UK government had won a vote of confidence over its handling of the Gulf crisis , by 437 votes to 35 . ) |
| 11 | There were 180,000 guestworkers in East Germany including 40,000 Vietnamese as well as Mozambicans and Cubans ; 40,000 North Koreans had been recalled by their government when demonstrations threatened the old regime . |
| 12 | Proletarianisation has occurred in Latin America because the peasantry have been dispossessed of their land or because their land has become insufficient to support a family . |
| 13 | For much of time he been joined by his wife Joanne , who has worked tirelessly with the country 's zoo to help care for captive chimpanzees and a small collection of other African animals . |
| 14 | He should have been in bed , but it was breathlessly hot , and Richard , who was at home , had been irritated by his whining . |
| 15 | The elderly diabetic lady had just been tucked into her bed when the doors were opened for visitors . |
| 16 | The language of special education had long been tucked under my belt , but now I was faced with filling in timetables with terms such as ‘ DD ’ time — departmental duties , to the uninitiated — in other words , time when I was not actually in direct teaching contact with students . |
| 17 | Clinicians , most notably , have been guarded in their enthusiasm about becoming embroiled in management . |
| 18 | THE parents of murdered British safari girl Julie Ward , left , have been honoured for their campaign to bring her killers to justice . |
| 19 | He says because my father died early in 1937 he 's never been honoured for his work . |
| 20 | The man who produced the record ’ Telstar ’ by the Tornadoes in the sixties , has been honoured by his home town . |
| 21 | He told us that he had been persecuted by his family , psychiatrists and a public mental hospital ; that he was in imminent danger of being detained against his will in hospital in Japan ; that escaping from Japan was the only way to secure his freedom ; and that he wanted shelter and legal assistance under international refugee law . |
| 22 | Had there been any butterflies around they 'd have been stacked above his head three layers high , all waiting for a chance to land … |
| 23 | My wife telephoned to give me the news which had been heard by our daughter listening to the radio . |
| 24 | There was a single filing cabinet , but in all other respects the room could have been inhabited by his father , the colonial Bishop whose portrait hung over the marble mantelshelf . |
| 25 | It was obvious that the plane had been repainted before its journey and Whitlock suddenly wondered if it had been done to erase the memories of the previous regime . |
| 26 | Kali and Hades had been plucked from their midst as though by a giant hand and flung several feet away , almost cut in half by the point-blank blast of sawn-off twelve-bores . |
| 27 | The old man had been revered during his lifetime and even more so after his death . |
| 28 | Excavation has , unfortunately , been limited in its extent and scope , with only the 1912–13 and 1924–5 sites sampling the interior ; more recent work has been confined to the defences and the west gate and to a settlement complex in the rural-urban fringe east of the town . |
| 29 | Communist , socialist or social democratic parties linked to trade union movements have commonly been limited in their zeal to curb company donations to right-wing parties by their own command of substantial financial resources . |
| 30 | I have long been fascinated by his work . |