Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | ‘ Nor would you , mate , ’ Parks said defensively , ‘ if you 'd been accused of murder . |
| 33 | His face was set and hard ; except for the muscle knotting in his jaw , he looked as if he 'd been sculpted of stone . |
| 34 | ‘ How did I get here ? ’ she asked , looking around a shabby but pleasant room , feeling so frail that she might have been made of china , china broken into a thousand pieces . |
| 35 | He could tell nothing from their faces ; they could have been made of stone . |
| 36 | They might have been made of stone . |
| 37 | I was out of my element , and the air itself could have been made of gold for all the use it was to me . |
| 38 | Considering the mess Hollywood might have been made of Triumph Of The Spirit ( Rocky in the Death Camps ? ) , we should be grateful this true life biopic about a Greek boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz and forced to fight for his captors ' entertainment has ended up the way it has dignified but dull , lacking any real historical punch . |
| 39 | Another member of the Pocket family , Sarah , ‘ a little dry brown corrugated old woman , with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells , and a large mouth like a cat 's without the whiskers ’ , toadies to Miss Havisham in the hope of a legacy , but is eventually left , according to Joe Gargery , only ‘ twenty-five pound per annium for to buy pills , on account of being bilious ’ . |
| 40 | Underneath this she wore black cotton trousers — ideally these should have been made of silk , but she felt sure no one would notice . |
| 41 | They were so still that they might have been made of granite . |
| 42 | And his young wife accompanied him with a sensitive mastery that could only have been born of love . |
| 43 | On the left is the Lobkovic Palace whose courtyard , if the nave originally planned had been built , would have been deprived of light . |
| 44 | If she had she might have been reminded of peau-de-soie — but certainly not rayon . |
| 45 | ‘ There was a risk the brain might have been starved of oxygen . |
| 46 | Suppose someone 's name is entered on the computer as having been convicted of prostitution in London and they report an assault in York or perhaps somewhere totally different . |
| 47 | Six people ( five Iraqis and a Jordanian ) were on May 19 sentenced by a martial law tribunal to prison terms of up to 15 years , having been convicted of collaboration with the Iraqi occupation forces in the first of a series of war trials [ see p. 38166 ] . |
| 48 | A Honduran drug trafficker , Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros , 45 , was on Jan. 16 , 1990 , in Los Angeles sentenced to life imprisonment , with no possibility of parole , having been convicted of cocaine smuggling on Sept. 6 , 1989 . |
| 49 | Having been cleared of theft , she is now being blamed for the museum 's low attendances . |
| 50 | The director of the prison was dismissed on July 24 and on the same day the Acting Commander of the Air Force , Gen. Hernando Monsalve , requested an immediate transfer , having been accused of incompetence over operations at the prison . |
| 51 | Miyazawa 's eventual success in the leadership poll was attributed to the support of the largest faction in the LDP , led jointly by Shin Kanemaru and by former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita , who remained a powerful force in LDP politics despite having been accused of involvement in the Recruit Cosmos financial scandal of 1987-89 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | The concrete paths had been cleared of snow and ice . |
| 55 | However , as I could now see , a vast area behind the shops had been cleared of housing and turned into an enormous shopping centre . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | William Joyce had been convicted of treason on the grand scale . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Two senior policemen were suspended after the Court of Appeal decided that a junior colleague had been convicted of robbery on fabricated evidence . |
| 60 | 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 ! |