Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [conj] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are aware that a number of incidents have been reported but sweet FA seems to have been done about it . ’ |
| 2 | The inside door was chained , bolted and locked and had not been opened since old Mr Stott , the caretaker , had been buried with the key . |
| 3 | On the subject of the Pierre Matisse purchase he noted that less than half the collection had been sold but that Sotheby 's had recouped both the cost and associated taxes already . |
| 4 | Personal computer manufacturers like Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp have been touted as potential OEM customers for NeXTStep 486 since details first emerged , but Jobs has nothing in writing yet . |
| 5 | The talks between Electronic Data Systems Corp and British Telecommunications Plc about a possible alliance have cooled , the Wall Street Journal believes : rather surprisingly , the paper says that British Telecom had been considering buying 25% of General Motors Corp 's Class E shares , which simply pay dividends tied to the computer services subsidiary 's performance ; it had been assumed that British Telecom would not be interested in holding a significant minority interest in an automaker just to cement an alliance with one of its subsidiaries . |
| 6 | It 's just been announced that three Oxford University students have been suspended for a year after a friend died at a drink and drugs party . |
| 7 | M4 MURDER VICTIM IDENTIFIED The man whose body was found early on Monday morning by the M4 exit road at Theale , Berks , has been identified as 44-year-old William Sweet , a photographer from Paddington , London . |
| 8 | One Albanian had been killed and two Serb soldiers wounded when ethnic Albanians apparently attacked Serbian headquarters in Pristina , the capital of Kosovo , on Nov. 11 . |
| 9 | Casualty figures released by the US Defence Department on Jan. 9 stated that 220 Panamanian civilians and 314 members of the FDP had been killed and 124 FDP members wounded . |
| 10 | On the wave of redundancies which has hit London hard since Christmas , Mr Ainslie noted that sufficient cost-cutting had now been achieved but that Mrs Brooks would be taking that area in hand . |
| 11 | Experts claim that at least two million US jobs have been lost because Latin America can no longer buy North American products — nor European ones for that matter . |