Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 2 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |
| 3 | Indeed , had Sheffield referee John Key not been so lenient , Wright could have been dismissed two or three times over . |
| 4 | When all the evidence has been examined each representative will sum up his particular point of view , with the Attorney General having the last word . |
| 5 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 6 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 7 | But that rescue mission had been stopped dead by the presence of the twenty thousand Frenchmen encamped in Frasnes who had been sent by the Emperor to make sure that the allied armies did not combine . |
| 8 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 9 | then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another . |
| 10 | Publication of this long-awaited new guide has been delayed due to unforeseen production problems , outwith control of the publishers — the Scottish Mountaineering Trust . |
| 11 | Scheduled to begin on Aug. 30 , the talks had been delayed due to North Korea 's refusal , at an unofficial contact between foreign ministry officials prior to the talks , to respond to Japan 's repeated call for information about a Japanese woman known as Li Un Hye , who had allegedly been kidnapped by North Korea to tutor the former North Korean agent convicted of the 1987 bombing of a South Korean passenger plane [ see p. 35905 ] . |
| 12 | The production of up-to-date Class Lists has been delayed due to the tardy response of teachers to requests for current details . |
| 13 | THE eagerly-awaited reappearance of Champion hurdler Royal Gait has been delayed 24 hours until this afternoon due to the abandonment of yesterday 's meeting at Leopardstown . |
| 14 | Race officials claim the start of the run had been delayed 20 minutes to avoid the train but the race was running 10 minutes ahead of schedule . |
| 15 | Thurston , had arrived with a load of ammunition for the Beaufighters on 7th , but had been delayed three days in leaving again due to a heavy swell on the sea . |
| 16 | It has equally been mooted that postmodernism in the aesthetic realm — and I have argued that such postmodernism first surfaced in the Surrealism and more generally in the historical avant-garde of the 1920s — has been an important condition of formation of poststructuralism in the human sciences ( Huyssen 1984 ; see above , Chapter Three ) . |
| 17 | ‘ The old inter-club rivalries and jealousies have undoubtedly been banished this season and it will be good for the tournament and for English rugby if we can win it , ’ said coach Keith Richardson . |
| 18 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 19 | In that case the personal representatives of persons who were crushed to death at the Hillsborough Stadium claimed damages under the Law Reform ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1934 for pain and suffering alleged to have been sustained prior to their death . |
| 20 | Screams from a nearby interrogation block have been heard loud and clear at the desk of the duty sergeant at Castlereagh without causing anyone to intervene to stop the maltreatment . |
| 21 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
| 22 | Chances were that the shooting had n't even been heard this side of the block . |
| 23 | Many valuable drugs have been recognized first as poisons . |
| 24 | By the beginning of 1986 , when alternative facilities were being planned for the combined residual population of both St Wulstan 's and Powick , it had been recognized that |
| 25 | However , extracodes are usually distinguished by the fact that operation codes have been allocated to them at the computer hardware design level , either because they will be normal hardwired instructions in some models , or because an instruction requirement has been recognized that is uneconomic to implement in hardware . |
| 26 | It 's a little surprising , then , that similar phenomena had not been recognized prior to 1902 , since they must have occurred on numerous occasions in the past . |
| 27 | Promoted thereafter as a source of cheap and clean energy , neither of which has actually been realised some 40 years on , nuclear power is a source of considerable debate in the late 1980s because of its annihilation potential in the case of warfare and the problems that characterise waste disposal from nuclear power plants ( section 5.4.3 ) . |
| 28 | They have always been a club with potential , and that potential appears to have been realised this season . |
| 29 | He had been christened that morning and died the same afternoon . |
| 30 | Although there was an attempt to introduce some competition for BT , this has been limited due to the natural monopoly position of parts of the telecommunications industry . |