Example sentences of "been [vb pp] of [det] " in BNC.

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1 Surely , then , word would have been heard of some of them .
2 During this same period a far wider survey had been undertaken of all the fifty-nine party cells in the Poltava guberniia .
3 He has already been stripped of all his posts , but hardliners had been pressing for a public trial on criminal charges , though this looks unlikely .
4 ‘ At the alleged places of detention , ’ Mr Ahtisaari said , ‘ the facilities were found to have been stripped of all valuable material and not to have been inhabited for several weeks at least . ’
5 However , the long-planned Venus orbiting image radar , due to map the planet by the end of the decade , has been stripped of all but its mapping equipment .
6 This aircraft , V7101 , had been stripped of all possible equipment and guns , and had been painted blue overall .
7 Once a self- sufficient farmer , Ahmed Mahlim , 53 , has been stripped of all dignity .
8 Chancellor Norman Lamont has been stripped of all credibility here and abroad .
9 After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals .
10 There comes a time , for people like you and me , when the mind has been stripped of all that is mythic .
11 Other refined carbohydrates , such as white flour and white rice , like sugar , have been stripped of most of their vitamins , minerals and fibre content and should be replaced with unrefined staple foods such as listed in the Personal Food Audit .
12 If she does not , they will have the consolation of knowing that they did all and more than could have been expected of those unfamiliar with the assistance which the court can give in such situations .
13 It is plain that if the judge had been appraised of all these matters now before the court , he would have come to the same conclusion as we have , namely that the necessary intention had not been proved on the part of the appellants .
14 It is , however , possible that the experimental data would not be thought conclusive either ; most of the experiments that have been done of this type have been rather artificial ( Marsh 1985a ) .
15 Of course few quantitative studies have been done of this , but those that we have show pretty unmistakable results .
16 Nothing had been said of such matters during the interview : that , too , was the old Oxfordshire .
17 Ronny Johnsen — nothing more has been said of this in our press .
18 To date very little practical use has been made of such general relations because of the vast amount of experimental work required to test any but the simplest expansion in two or three terms .
19 The turning point came in July 1973 , when a White House official almost accidentally let it be known that tape recordings had regularly been made of all conversations conducted by the President in the White House .
20 We have now examined into Master Hussey 's means , and we are satisfied , ’ said the prince , very gravely and courteously , ‘ that even though no exact inventory has yet been made of all the property passing to you , Master Hussey , by your uncle 's will , yet you have certainly acquired assets which must be disposable , and of such a nature as to be very readily disposable .
21 ‘ There is pressure on me , but too much has been made of that .
22 A number of methodological criticisms have been made of these studies which cast serious doubt on the validity of their findings .
23 Recent criticisms have been made of several aspects of this approach .
24 Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life .
25 Too much has been made of this by Western critics .
26 I agree entirely with my hon. Friend , and so does every independent study and assessment that has been made of this matter .
27 However , despite an increase in collaborative ventures criticisms have been made of this form of organisation .
28 The many criticisms that have been made of this body of work will be recognised , but again we will be arguing that it has much to teach us , especially as regards incorporating an understanding of instinctive behaviour into an understanding of social relations and moral careers .
29 So , having been robbed of all convenient benchmarks , I 'm somewhat at sea .
30 ‘ ( The European Parliament ) … considers that , in the absence of palliative care correctly provided at both psychological and medical level , each time a fully conscious patient insistently and repeatedly requests an end to an existence which has for him been robbed of all dignity , and each time a team of doctors created for that purpose , established the impossibility of providing further specific care , the request should be satisfied without thereby involving any breach of respect for human life . ’
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