Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the language barrier , which has been eased by the general acceptance of English everywhere except in France , British and Continental military staffs have practically no shared operational experience or traditions . |
| 2 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 3 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 4 | Since 1982 , the burden of CGT has been eased by the welcome introduction of index-linking . |
| 5 | I reflected that I was not sure if I had ever been filled with the Holy Spirit , let alone spoken the word of God boldly . |
| 6 | And if we 've been filled with the Holy Spirit , then we should have the evidence to go with it . |
| 7 | Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy announced on Oct. 16 that the Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff and the Commander of the Development Forces of the army had been dismissed following the late delivery of fuel to the capital . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The following day , the Committee issued a manifesto expounding its justification for the rising , and appointed General Franco — who , it will be remembered , had been dismissed by the legitimate government of the nation — as chief of the Armies of Morocco and southern Spain . |
| 11 | Subsequently , on Feb. 17 , it was reported that a long-range airforce division with nuclear capacity had put itself under Ukrainian jurisdiction , and that its commander , who had been dismissed by the long-range Air Force Commander , Col.-Gen . |
| 12 | The Minister will no doubt refer to the OECD report , which appears to have been dismissed by the hon. Gentleman . |
| 13 | But the British professional classes had been examined by the academic team of Lewis and Maude in 1952 , who found cause for concern that taxation had reduced the differentials between the professions to such an extent that they feared their quality might not be maintained . |
| 14 | But I have read and enjoyed ‘ pornography ’ , just as I have been aroused by the pictorial depiction of sex — and I refuse to feel guilty for it . |
| 15 | All the interviewees were asked what moved them to experiment with heroin in the first instance The largest group ( 33 per cent ) first tried heroin out of curiosity which , in most of the cases , had been aroused by the previous use of other drugs . |
| 16 | In all three Baltic republics , and in the southern republic of Moldavia ( which like them had been annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 ) , separatism was the dominant election issue . |
| 17 | Mohinder Amarnath , the all-rounder who angered the Indian selectors last year by labelling them a ‘ bunch of jokers ’ , has been recalled to the Indian team for the three-nation Sharjah Cup cricket tournament from 12 to 20 October . |
| 18 | Fulham defender Jeff Hopkins has been recalled to the Welsh squad for the World Cup qualifier against The Netherlands as a replacement for Kevin Ratcliffe . |
| 19 | IT MIGHT not be Ireland 's biggest or most lucrative export but thousands of shamrocks , carefully sealed in air-tight bags immediately after being picked , have been flown from the Emerald Isle to the Irish in Britain in time for St Patrick 's Day celebrations today . |
| 20 | Resort , according to one report , has been blended into the natural landscape ‘ almost to the point of camouflage ’ . |
| 21 | Mr Louis-Dreyfus , who has taken a 15 per cent stake in the new company , has been joined by the UK-based investment company , Coatbridge Holdings with 15 per cent whilst an unnamed investment fund , which is advised by the US money-center bank Citibank , has taken 19.9 per cent . |
| 22 | His return had been delayed by the same blizzard that had almost prevented Judith leaving Manhattan , and put him beyond the deadline Klein had set . |
| 23 | All of a sudden they realised they had been tricked from the very beginning . |
| 24 | The Southport woman is one of many people believed to have been tricked by the 38-year-old Glaswegian who masterminded a sting from a car showroom in Rufford , near Ormskirk . |
| 25 | In acts chapter two and verse thirty two , this Jesus , God raised up again to which we are all witnesses , therefore , having been exulted to the right hand of God , and having receiving from the father the promise of the Holy Spirit , he has poured forth this which you both see and hear . |
| 26 | Quinn , they would say , was standing still , having been overhauled by the main group but able to see what had happened up the road , shaking his head in disbelief and murmuring ‘ No … no … no . ’ |
| 27 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that the government had signed an agreement the previous week to pay compensation to Jews living in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union who had been persecuted by the Nazi regime and had thus far been unable to claim compensation under a West German agreement dating from 1952 . |
| 28 | More important , he set about gathering the Wordsworths into the Quantock fold , hastening a visit which must in any case have been intended for the near future . |
| 29 | He has been banished from the real world , we do n't allow him to even glimpse at it any more . |
| 30 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Representatives fulfilled a commitment made in 1988 [ see p. 37081 ] when they voted that $20,000 should be paid to each of 62,000 Japanese-Americans who had been interned during the Second World War . |