Example sentences of "[been] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier funding difficulties [ see p. 37583 ] , had been eased in December 1990 with the successful raising of over £560,000,000 through a rights issue in Paris and London . |
| 2 | The man picked up a small portmanteau that had been hidden in shadow by the rail , and with one last sweeping look across the quay , climbed on to the gangplank . |
| 3 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 4 | The skeleton , that of a woman in her twenties , appears to have been hidden in woodland near Chewton Mendip , Somerset , for years . |
| 5 | The two men , both facing terrorist charges , escaped after producing a gun , which had been hidden in one of their shoes , as they were being escorted back to the prison 's secure unit from attending mass in the chapel . |
| 6 | His face had been hidden in the darkness , yet she thought she would recognise him if they met again . |
| 7 | For decades his complete diaries have been hidden in K-G-B files in Moscow — now they 're about to be serialised in the Sunday Times . |
| 8 | ‘ We did not accept his resignation because we felt he had already been dismissed in the summer , ’ Lawrie Hargrave said . |
| 9 | If your employer fails to renew a fixed-term contract , you are deemed to have been dismissed in law . |
| 10 | The Court then decided that the Tribunal 's decision was perverse , because there was no material from which to conclude that the hypothetical man guilty of misconduct would not have been dismissed in the same way as was S. Her appeal was dismissed and leave to appeal to the House of Lords was refused . |
| 11 | In Brown v Rentokil Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 4 , the EAT ruled that an employee who had been dismissed in accordance with sickness absence rules when she was away from work because of pregnancy-related illness , was not discriminated against . |
| 12 | Seven players have been dismissed in the latest intercontinental group stages and last night the organising committee of four officials each from Italy and England , chaired by Bristol City 's Leslie Kew , held a crisis meeting in Pisa . |
| 13 | Even the work of scribes writing centuries after the Conquest has been dismissed in this way , seemingly mainly because it is variable , and not because we can ( usually ) know whether the scribe was a first-language speaker of Anglo-Norman , or whether it would have been relevant if he had been . |
| 14 | On these occasions those temporary workers recruited were ex-employees — those who had been dismissed in recent downturns and who had been unable to find a new job . |
| 15 | Charges of human rights abuses brought against Leigh and 39 other officers had been dismissed in August 1986 when they invoked a 1978 amnesty law [ see p. 34988 ] . |
| 16 | Mihai Lupoi , who had been dismissed in February 1990 as Minister of Tourism in the provisional NSF government [ see p. 37251 ] , applied for political asylum in Switzerland on July 5 . |
| 17 | In June Hubert Ingraham , another former minister who had been dismissed in 1984 [ ibid. ] , was elected leader of the opposition Free National Movement ( FNM ) after the death on May 9 , 1990 , of its former leader Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield [ for whom see also p. 35373 ] . |
| 18 | Ernst Verdieu , the Minister of Social Affairs , and Smark Michel , the Trade and Industry Minister were dismissed on June 14 and replaced respectively by Myrtho Céleston and Jean François Chamblain ; the Justice Minister , Bayard Vincent , had been dismissed in late May and replaced by Karl Auguste . |
| 19 | The Defence Ministry announced on July 16 that 71 members of the armed forces had been dismissed in the last year for human rights abuses and drug trafficking . |
| 20 | Yoma 's brother Emir Yoma , a presidential aide , had also been dismissed in January after he was implicated in corruption charges . |
| 21 | The following day the Supreme Soviet 's Presidium appointed as acting RIB chair the former chair of the USSR State Bank , Viktor Gerashchenko , who had been dismissed in August 1991 for alleged complicity in the coup . |
| 22 | Law and Order Minister Hernus Kriel announced on Aug. 27 that 13 police generals had been dismissed in a reorganization of the SAP . |
| 23 | Similar campaigns have been waged in areas affected by other endemic treponematoses with considerable , if not equal , success . |
| 24 | And though the protracted battles between Congress and the Bush administration which have been waged in recent years are unlikely , Clinton 's proposals could be changed significantly by Congress prior to enactment . |
| 25 | There was optimism at the beginning of February that the violence which had been waged in Azerbaijan and along its borders with Armenia with such ferocity in the previous month [ see pp. 37168-70 ] might be ended by peace talks between the leaders of the Azerbaijan Popular Front and Armenian Pan-National Front which began in Riga ( the Latvian capital ) on Feb. 1 . |
| 26 | Defeated presidential candidates Ion Ratiu ( Christian Democratic National Peasants ' Party — CDNPP ) and Radu Campeanu ( National Liberal Party — NLP ) listed irregularities in the process and complained that the campaign had been waged in an atmosphere of violence ; both , however , stated their intention to participate in the new parliament . |
| 27 | The violent repercussions of the second decree have been examined in the case-study of Roslavl' in the Smolensk guberniia . |
| 28 | The enemy 's base , a disused farmhouse , has been examined in great detail by an earlier reconnaissance patrol and everyone knows , in theory at least , how to reach it and What to do on arrival . |
| 29 | To base a property tax on anything other than capital values would be perverse — even if alternatives like imputed rents and floor-space footage were inherently sensible , which they are not — and ways to compile and update the necessary data have already been examined in detail . |
| 30 | The possibility of a dramatic reduction in the size of the armed forces has been examined in ‘ Options for Change ’ , a paper prepared for Margaret Thatcher last year by Alan Clark , the defence-procurement minister , and still covered in secrecy . |