Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier funding difficulties [ see p. 37583 ] , had been eased in December 1990 with the successful raising of over £560,000,000 through a rights issue in Paris and London . |
| 2 | The gap left by the withdrawal of the worst examples has been filled with Class 312s , and ex-London Midland 310s . |
| 3 | All the broken down buildings have gone , existing businesses have been hidden from 125mph prying eyes and replaced with pleasant trees and shrubs . |
| 4 | Massive speculation immediately arose over his death , particularly in the light of recent allegations that Maxwell and a senior Daily Mirror journalist , Nick Davies , had both had involvement with the Israeli secret intelligence service Mossad ; Davies had been dismissed on Oct. 29 on the grounds that he had lied in relation to a meeting which he was said to have had in 1985 with a United States arms dealer . |
| 5 | According to da Motta Veiga , he had been dismissed on Oct. 19 [ see p. 37773 ] for resisting pressure from Faria [ see also above ] to lend US$20,000,000 and to supply $40,000,000 worth of oil to the Voe Canhedo business group , which owned a 48 per cent stake in the newly privatized VASP airline formerly controlled by the state of Sao Paulo [ see p. 37710 ] . |
| 6 | Among changes to the Council of State Secretaries [ see p. 38994 for previous government changes ] Mohammed Lamin Kamara became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , replacing Ahmed Ramadan — Dumbuya who had been dismissed on Oct. 30 , . |
| 7 | Richard H. Truly who had been dismissed on Feb. 13 . |
| 8 | Justice Minister Abdehamid Mahi-Bahi was reported to have been dismissed on Nov. 14 by the President of the High Committee of State , Ali Kafi , and replaced by Mohamed Teguia , President of the Supreme Court . |
| 9 | Hanniah Lungu , hitherto Air Force Commander , was appointed Minister of Defence , succeeding Frederick Hapunda , who advocated a pluralist democracy and who had been dismissed on June 7 , officially for being " ineffective " in carrying out his duties . |
| 10 | Patterson had been dismissed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Planning in December 1991 after a scandal involving tax waivers for an oil company [ see pp. 38670-71 ] . |
| 11 | Mihai Lupoi , who had been dismissed in February 1990 as Minister of Tourism in the provisional NSF government [ see p. 37251 ] , applied for political asylum in Switzerland on July 5 . |
| 12 | The following day the Supreme Soviet 's Presidium appointed as acting RIB chair the former chair of the USSR State Bank , Viktor Gerashchenko , who had been dismissed in August 1991 for alleged complicity in the coup . |
| 13 | Charges of human rights abuses brought against Leigh and 39 other officers had been dismissed in August 1986 when they invoked a 1978 amnesty law [ see p. 34988 ] . |
| 14 | The relationship between pull-out torque and operating speed has been examined in Chapter 5 and some of the results from that analysis can be applied to the closed-loop control problem . |
| 15 | The idea of substitution has been examined in Section 2.4.2 , but the reader is reminded by an example . |
| 16 | In the extreme case , there is no mobility of labour at all ( as in Jones , 1971b ) , and the implications of such immobility for the incidence of the corporation tax have been examined in Section 6–4 , where we saw that implies that the return to capital definitely falls ( relative to p y ) as a result of the tax . |
| 17 | A county circuit court decision in July 1988 allowing the life support systems to be withdrawn had been overturned in November 1988 by the Missouri Supreme Court in a four-to-three decision . |
| 18 | FreeHand is still there but it has now been joined by Illustrator 88 . |
| 19 | There were widely held concerns over the funding of the mission , the dispatch of which had been delayed since November 1991 when the leaders of three of the four factions returned to Phnom Penh , the capital . |
| 20 | The first production versions of Audi 's Cabriolet were on show , although it does n't go on sale until April/May in Germany and the UK launch has been delayed until summer 1992 , when it 's expected to be priced at about £25,000 . |
| 21 | The signature of the agreement had been delayed from December 1989 , partly over the question of East German access to the Schengen area , it being finally agreed that border controls would apply only at East Germany 's borders with Poland and Czechoslovakia and not at the existing inter-German border . |
| 22 | But by the beginning of the Seventeenth Century , her character had been redefined by playwrights such as Chettle and Dekker as a harlot . |
| 23 | It had been intended at Vatican I to complement the papal definitions with something much wider , but pressure from Franco-Prussian conflict combined , maybe , with a lack of Roman interest in a larger agenda , prevented anything further from being said . |
| 24 | For a German observer who had been interned in Britain 1914-18 , ‘ the great secret of masculine psychology is that all men of all ages act and behave like schoolboys as soon as their individualities are merged in a crowd . ’ |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman 's point will no doubt have been heard by Ministers responsible . |
| 26 | In many instances Dwelly and others provide only the plant 's generic name , and where necessary the different species have been distinguished by qualifiers such as ( ‘ meadow ’ ) , ( ‘ marsh ’ ) etc . |
| 27 | The party 's previous secretary-general , Abdel Rahman Qasemlu and two other officials had been assassinated in July 1989 in Vienna [ see p. 36833 ] . |
| 28 | Dory Chamoun was unanimously elected as leader of the right-wing National Liberal Party on May 25 , in succession to his brother , Dany Chamoun , who had been assassinated in October 1990 [ see p. 37793 ] . |
| 29 | Uniate congregations had been legalized on Dec. 1 , 1989 , and 600 parishes had registered by January 1990 . |
| 30 | It was only recently that a police presence had been withdrawn from No. 22 after the Pitt deaths . |