Example sentences of "been [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence in the present case Mr. Dennis had not been divested of his interest under the joint tenancy when his wife died . |
| 2 | In such a situation the true owner may have been divested of his claim against the wrongdoer under section 8(2) ( d ) but if not , he might still be entitled to sue by virtue of his title . |
| 3 | Proletarianisation has occurred in Latin America because the peasantry have been dispossessed of their land or because their land has become insufficient to support a family . |
| 4 | A capital intensive fruit plantation in the valley floor of a central American Republic can ‘ cause ’ soil erosion on hillsides which are being cultivated by peasants who have been dispossessed of more suitable land for cultivation . |
| 5 | In the western United States travellers encountered the native Americans , the Indians who had so often been dispossessed of their lands and livelihoods by the railway companies . |
| 6 | In May Justice Minister Kinkel announced that priority was to be given to the rehabilitation and compensation of victims of the SED regime , ahead of pursuing those accused of committing crimes or of assessing compensation claims of those who had been dispossessed of property by the regime . |
| 7 | In four of the illustrations the defendant appears naked after he has been mugged of his clothes . |
| 8 | The idea has been mooted of throwing our weight behind her version . |
| 9 | He 's Woodleigh 's cousin , and his heir , of course , unless that 's the older Horbury brother who ran off to Australia years ago and has never been heard of since . |
| 10 | Nothing further had been heard of her either in Finchley or at the Eastbourne club address . |
| 11 | By then Pastor Tokes had disappeared and has not been heard of since . |
| 12 | This did n't work , so he took the girl back to Sweden and nothing has been heard of them since . ’ |
| 13 | Almost nothing has been heard of Ben since he went went missing on Kos , although a British couple claimed to have seen him in August on the island of Lesbos . |
| 14 | Surely , then , word would have been heard of some of them . |
| 15 | It has interested me very much to learn from the Air Historical Branch of the Royal Air Force that after the war , since nothing had been heard of Warrant Officer Crane 's Stirling , its crew and S.A.S. passengers , a search was made of the Morvan region . |
| 16 | Henry II has never been heard of in Israel ( see chapter 3 ) . |
| 17 | Although sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of East Germany his sentence was commuted to one of life imprisonment , but he has never been heard of again . |
| 18 | The simple truth is that most captors of record fish were never heard of before their historical catch and have never been heard of since . |
| 19 | In true Argentine tradition , nothing seems to have been heard of him since . |
| 20 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 21 | Some of those who served with the Forces on the continent were brought close to areas where their families had lived , or where friends and relatives had last been heard of . |
| 22 | Other women came and went in his life after that , including Jan Parsons who would never have been heard of but for the sex-video scandal . |
| 23 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 24 | ‘ Little has been heard of her since Dead Rat , but she is believed to be in the South-Western United States . |
| 25 | I recently read an assessment report which stated , ‘ Her mother seems to have disappeared and has n't been heard of for six months . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's plenty seen with men 's own eyes that 's never been heard of in heaven , ’ said Davide . |
| 27 | And as far as I know , Hamadan has never been heard of again from that day to this . |
| 28 | To me , the fact that she has n't been heard of again in seventeen years puts a different complexion on it . |
| 29 | His particular work was to be a pioneer missionary — a planter of churches where ‘ Christ has not been heard of ’ . |
| 30 | Care should be taken when items are claimed to be damaged ‘ beyond economic repair ’ particularly if the confirmation is received from a firm which has not been heard of previously . |