Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had been warned of this , and was therefore able to take the extra engagements in my stride , and to enjoy the opportunity to visit varying institutions and talk to people of all positions on the academic scene . |
| 32 | The growth of liberal assumptions of free speech and tolerance meant that the anticlerical challenge came just when religion had been deprived of much of its legal protection . |
| 33 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
| 34 | I realized , however , that to do so after we had been deprived of half our rifles and whatever security the protection of the Government afforded us would be to invite almost certain massacre . |
| 35 | Nothing had been said of such matters during the interview : that , too , was the old Oxfordshire . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | During this same period a far wider survey had been undertaken of all the fifty-nine party cells in the Poltava guberniia . |
| 38 | But Celia Palmer , who took her lover 's name when she moved in with him , had been acquitted of all the gravest charges ‘ hanging over her head this long time ’ . |
| 39 | This aircraft , V7101 , had been stripped of all possible equipment and guns , and had been painted blue overall . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | If there was some other difficulty in obtaining all the required signatories to the election within the time limit and the Revenue had been notified of this and that each of the signatories had decided to make an election within the time limit , a late election will be accepted . |
| 42 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 43 | Indeed , all three contenders for the leadership had been accused of such involvement at one point or another : Watanabe 's staff had been deeply implicated in the Recruit affair , and Mitsuzuka had been linked with other scandals involving illegal fund-raising activities for the LDP . |
| 44 | In December 1969 , after Conservative protests had been disposed of that Parliament was being asked to reach a decision at an unnecessarily early stage ( a General Election was in the offing ) , both Houses agreed that the 1965 Act should not expire . |
| 45 | It is made all the more unfair by the fact that the institutions have been deprived of any real access to the water authorities . |
| 46 | Five men accused of staging a cock-fight have been cleared of all charges . |
| 47 | 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 ) . |
| 48 | Of course few quantitative studies have been done of this , but those that we have show pretty unmistakable results . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | However , despite an increase in collaborative ventures criticisms have been made of this form of organisation . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | A number of methodological criticisms have been made of these studies which cast serious doubt on the validity of their findings . |
| 53 | Recent criticisms have been made of several aspects of this approach . |
| 54 | As with all denizens of Fairyland , the glastyn may be perverse as well as benign by turn , and reports have been noted of those who have run amok , raping women and destroying crops if they have been slighted in any way . |
| 55 | Although Scottish goalkeepers have been accused of all sorts of malpractices , troilism is rarely mentioned . |
| 56 | I have been accused of many things , but never of being a papal legate . |
| 57 | Neither Mr Johnson nor his representatives have been notified of any positive test . ’ |
| 58 | They will not accept it as true that they murdered God , whereas we admit it and have been cleansed of that guilt . |
| 59 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |