Example sentences of "been [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restrictions on footballers in Eastern Europe playing abroad have gradually been eased as Poles , Soviets and others have come to regard the export of players as a useful means of acquiring hard currency . |
| 2 | Babe-obsessed boys like Bill and Ted , Wayne and Garth and MTV 's Pauly Shore might once have been dismissed as metalhead wastoids , but now they 're big box office in a country seemingly intent on celebrating the stupidity of its youth . |
| 3 | Some of those who have recorded human rights violations have been dismissed as trouble-makers and on occasion have themselves been threatened , tortured and killed . |
| 4 | Haider had been dismissed as governor of Carinthia in June 1991 for praising the Nazis ' employment policies [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 5 | Saadi , whose family dynasty had effectively run the province for over 40 years , had been dismissed as governor by President Carlos Saúl Menem in April 1991 and the province had been placed under a federal government trusteeship , following widespread evidence of official involvement in corruption and drug trafficking [ see p. 38144 ] . |
| 6 | A few days earlier Ouedraogo had been dismissed as secretary-general of the Organization for People 's Democracy-Labour Movement ( ODP — MT ) , the dominant grouping within the Front , reportedly for having displayed " serious failures of principle and party policy " . |
| 7 | For example , if the existence of successor in title had been relevant , the F.C.C. 's determination would , said Lord Reid , have been binding whether right or wrong . |
| 8 | When it had been examined and test-flown by the manufacturer 's pilot prior to the revalidation of the microlight 's Permit to Fly both wingtip adjusters had been set at the neutral position with no apparent need for any change . |
| 9 | Simon Cope of London-based commercial agent Gerald Eve , which is marketing the scheme jointly with Sanderson Townend & Gilbert , said : ‘ There has been as reasonable amount of interest in the past , and marketing has occasionally been stopped while discussions have taken place , but there are serious discussions going on at the moment . ’ |
| 10 | Not all the items have yet been catalogued and work is in progress on this but much of the Witt material is in handlist form and other material can be found in the catalogues of previous Courtauld exhibitions . |
| 11 | Five banks : Midland ; Security Pacific National ; Chemical Bank ; Mitsubishi Finance International and Barclays have been joined as respondents and Mr Chadwick represents all but Barclays . |
| 12 | Although this plan had the endorsement of Serbian leaders including Slobodan Milosevic , the President of Serbia , the troop dispatch had been delayed because Milan Babic , leader of the self-proclaimed " Serbian Republic of Krajina " within Croatian territory [ see p. 38685 ] , rejected the idea of the deployment of UN forces in ethnically mixed areas of Croatia , conceding only that they should be stationed on the front line between Serbian and Croatian forces . |
| 13 | The release of the results had been delayed as UNITA , with preliminary results indicating its defeat , made allegations of irregularities and threatened a resumption of guerrilla war . |
| 14 | They had become engaged in 1882 , but the marriage had been delayed until Freud was able to support her and a family . |
| 15 | Atkins felt that Peterborough 's first goal , which came in the first minute of the second-half , should have been disallowed because Cambridge goalkeeper John Vaughan had the ball kicked out of his hands by sliding Peterborough midfielder John McGlashan . |
| 16 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 17 | But investigations into the leaking of sensitive material from Washington had narrowed down to Maclean as chief suspect , and it seems that Burgess was detailed , probably by Philby , who was still in Washington , to warn him and organize his escape , although it does not seem to have been intended that Burgess should go too . |
| 18 | All of the documents considered so far have been intended as items for discussion or guidance to schools and local authorities . |
| 19 | Improved business optimism , reported in the previous survey , has not been sustained and expectations of rising business volumes were not fulfilled . |
| 20 | It had been recognized that Liberals had been more adept at handling the press because they were more ready to stoop to newspaper practices , as Sandars had reported in 1909 : |
| 21 | It has long been recognized that reading can provide young pupils with the chance to develop a general ‘ feel for the language ’ . |
| 22 | It has long been recognized that Pausanias gave a Herodotean dress and added some comments of his own to what must ultimately be a third-century B.C. account of the Celtic attack ( O. Regenbogen , P.-W. , s.v . |
| 23 | It has also been recognized that Porter may not be correct in supposing that cost-leadership and differentiation policies should always be mutually exclusive . |
| 24 | His natural mother had been traced and Dr Hadjipapas had been arrested . |
| 25 | The mysterious Mr Kipper has never been traced and Susie is presumed dead . |
| 26 | They signed Gorman from Sligo Rovers last summer , but his first team appearances have been limited since Joey Cunningham 's return from injury . |
| 27 | Cultivation grants for non-pasture land in the UK under development plans have been withdrawn and drainage reduced from 70% to 50% since December 1984 . |
| 28 | This year , grass grown on the mica has been conserved as silage for winter feed , and acceptable yields of wheat and barley grown on sand . |
| 29 | Large boulders stood out beside the path as grey blobs in the featureless sheets of pale grass , and flat stones had been placed as bridges across the burns , their backs hollowed by the tread of feet through the centuries . |
| 30 | Of course that should have been altered when inflation became serious , but it was n't . |