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Example sentences of "been [verb] [coord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	So our boards , sails , operating methods , safety boats and staff have been examined and approved by the highest UK national authority .
2	The day before , while driving his car , he had been stopped and charged with some trivial traffic offence .
3	( c ) It may be argued that a person has been stopped and searched by consent .
4	The room had been vandalized — viciously so ; but it was equally apparent that it had been furnished and cared for at a level totally different from the other rooms .
5	Soon this mood of despair evaporated under the influence of serene letters from Helen , who flourished among the intimate circle of artistic Bohemian young people — including the poet Charles Dalmon and the actor Franklin Dyall — who lived in Hammersmith and spent a great deal of time at Mrs Logan 's large house which had been furnished and decorated in William Morris style .
6	No. 7 Charlotte Square has been furnished and decorated in the style of the eighteenth century .
7	All objects have been catalogued and vetted by Chinese experts and the results discussed with experts from Brussels , Paris and Hong Kong , the names of whom Mr van Halder would not disclose .
8	Meanwhile , many of the largest US purse-seiners had been re-flagged or sold to foreign investors .
9	It is obvious that the genes themselves had not been blended and passed through the F1 generation to the F2 generation unaffected .
10	Information has been gathered and shared among consumers , linguists and public service personnel by working alongside each other , listening and discussion .
11	One important norm concerning childspacing intervals has long been recognized and observed by many traditional societies , especially in sub-Sahara Africa .
12	Carpal tunnel syndrome has recently been recognized and added to the list of prescribed industrial diseases but only when linked to vibrating hand tools .
13	Precedents which have been distinguished and confined to their own particular facts .
14	As the vehicle is 30 years old they have probably been repainted or changed in the past unless your L.R. was a fire engine .
15	Put another way , she had been plucked and prepared for meetings like this as carefully as a goose is dressed for the oven .
16	One suggestion has been that the Government would agree to amendments in December 1991 , with the reservation that these would not be binding upon the United Kingdom unless and until they had been ratified and approved by the United Kingdom parliament .
17	Approximately 950 households have now been traced and interviewed with ESRC .
18	Since this tactic came into operation in September 1987 all founding members of the banana trade union movement have been assassinated or subjected to assassination attempts .
19	This is an understandable fear and must be met by the provision of cast-iron safeguards , such as they have in Holland where , under the beneficent tutelage of Dr Admiraal , voluntary euthanasia has been legalized and practised with considerable success for several years .
20	ACAS has had a troubled life and its powers have been limited and subjected to greater ministerial control by the Employment Act 1980 .
21	After he had been withdrawn or expelled from St John 's College , Grace sent him to the local government school , Highlands North .
22	On Jan. 30 the Agence France-Presse news agency reported that some 20 Moslem clerics had been arrested in recent weeks and that a 40-year-old preacher had been sacked and condemned to 80 lashes in December after he had used his Friday sermon to insult the leaders of a Saudi women 's association .
23	Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs .
24	1820 Alter all the labour of " obtaining pint and choppin standard measure out of Stirling castle , which have been proven & marked by the Dean of Guild of Stirling as correct , some of members of this meeting ventured to say that these jugs are composed of tin , and easily dimpled , whereas they are composed of the strongest sheet copper tinned within to prevent corrosion .
25	Those which have survived have , not unnaturally , been altered and added to in a greater or lesser degree and entirely Romanesque examples are not numerous .
26	The graves contained the bodies of up to 200 policemen , many of whom had been blindfolded and shot in the back of the head , who were presumed to have been amongst the 600 captured by the LTTE on June 11 [ see above ; pp. 37529-30 ] .
27	On Oct. 19 the United Kingdom and US embassies in Ankara investigated allegations by a group of Christian evangelists who claimed that they had been blindfolded and tortured at a police station in Ankara .
28	He was a distant cousin to James IV but his father had been exiled to France so he had been reared and educated in the French fashion .
29	Their birds are eligible for the ‘ Golden Triangle ’ , an assurance that guarantees a turkey has been reared and produced with utmost care by an independent farmer .
30	Most achondrites are ‘ breccias ’ — rocks that have been crushed and recemented with angular fragments ( clasts ) lying in a finer-grained matrix , Before the Antarctic programme , two of the more common types of achondrites were classified as eucrites and howardites on the basis of the number of source rocks among their clasts and on the magnesium content of their pyroxine minerals ( Mg , Fe , Ca ) 2Si206 , — pyroxenes are the most abundant iron magnesium silicates in igneous rocks .