Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 2 | Inside there is a piscina and in the bedrooms can be seen the outline of old windows that have been filled and plastered over . |
| 3 | ( In the police and civil service an estimated 80 per cent of Albanian employees had been dismissed or had resigned . ) |
| 4 | Ung Phan , Minister of Communications , Transport and Posts , had been dismissed and arrested along with five Army and Foreign Ministry officials . |
| 5 | Lorry driver Bill , 51 , of Merthyr Tydfil , South Wales , said yesterday : ‘ I was in so much pain I could n't dress myself after I had been examined and needed a wheelchair . ’ |
| 6 | So our boards , sails , operating methods , safety boats and staff have been examined and approved by the highest UK national authority . |
| 7 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 8 | He 's been stopped and told not to write to us . |
| 9 | Any coach leaving the city at this time of night should have been stopped and searched anyway . |
| 10 | The day before , while driving his car , he had been stopped and charged with some trivial traffic offence . |
| 11 | She had been stopped and killed while cycling home from Byss to Hilderbridge late on the previous night . |
| 12 | ( c ) It may be argued that a person has been stopped and searched by consent . |
| 13 | The attacks continued after ibuprofen and cimetidine had been stopped and recurred three days later , after chemotherapy in conjunction with intravenous dexamethasone , metoclopramide , and oral dexamethasone . |
| 14 | The room had been vandalized — viciously so ; but it was equally apparent that it had been furnished and cared for at a level totally different from the other rooms . |
| 15 | Soon this mood of despair evaporated under the influence of serene letters from Helen , who flourished among the intimate circle of artistic Bohemian young people — including the poet Charles Dalmon and the actor Franklin Dyall — who lived in Hammersmith and spent a great deal of time at Mrs Logan 's large house which had been furnished and decorated in William Morris style . |
| 16 | No. 7 Charlotte Square has been furnished and decorated in the style of the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Er , as far as I know all the forms that were allocated to me have been versioned and distributed out to everybody , so I should have lots of version forms . |
| 18 | In her essay ‘ Sculpture in the Expanded Field ’ , 5 art historian Rosalind Krauss explored ideas about categories in ways that might be useful to this discussion about textiles : ‘ over the last 10 years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture : narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends , large photographs documenting country hikes … categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity , and display of the way in which a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything ’ . |
| 19 | A Thai bronze figure of the Walking Buddha , which had been catalogued as dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and estimated at £25,000-£30,000 , turned out to have been made within the last 150 years . |
| 20 | All objects have been catalogued and vetted by Chinese experts and the results discussed with experts from Brussels , Paris and Hong Kong , the names of whom Mr van Halder would not disclose . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , many of the largest US purse-seiners had been re-flagged or sold to foreign investors . |
| 22 | 1 Where the person bringing an action to recover land , or some person through whom he claims , has been in possession of the land , and has while entitled to the land been dispossessed or discontinued his possession , the right of action shall be treated as having accrued on the date of the dispossession or discontinuance . |
| 23 | It is obvious that the genes themselves had not been blended and passed through the F1 generation to the F2 generation unaffected . |
| 24 | Much of this secretive internal trading is conducted at sur lattes stage , when the wines have undergone secondary fermentation , thus Champagnes which have been blended and rendered sparkling by one firm end up being sold under the label of another . |
| 25 | They 've been joined and need time to separate again into two complete people ; if they 're torn apart too soon there 's a spiritual bleeding . |
| 26 | They profess wholehearted support for clean coal technology , but , by forcing British Coal to search for private sector money , the potentially world-beating topping cycle developments at Grimethorpe have been delayed and delayed . |
| 27 | The planning process has been delayed and made more expensive by the need for constant negotiations between authorities responsible for two separate parts of a process which was intended in the Town and County Planning Acts of 1968 and 1971 to be fully integrated . |
| 28 | The calculation of additional financing costs may also be carried out on a comparative basis , comparing what the costs would have been had the project not been delayed and disrupted compared with actual costs . |
| 29 | He had had a long and tiring journey , flights from Frankfurt , Heathrow and Glasgow all having been delayed or cancelled . |
| 30 | In despair John Pringle accepted a blackmail deal which , however irksome , seems to have been honoured and left him unmolested afterwards . |