Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will not rest until the death has been avenged and the murderer punished , when it will fly to the Afterworld and inform the victim of his murderer 's fate . |
| 2 | Now that the Apple Computer Inc v Microsoft Corp lawsuit has been defanged and the only thing standing between Bill Gates and world domination is the Federal Trading Commission — see page three : there may be more truth than not in the observation that Microsoft wants IBM to have OS/2 so they ca n't be accused of being a monopoly . |
| 3 | The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality . |
| 4 | The ANC demanded " total and verifiable " evidence that hit squad activities had been stopped after a prominent black lawyer was killed on Feb. 15 by a booby-trapped tape-recorder posted to his Soweto home . |
| 5 | At the time there were widespread rumours of an Establishment plot and stories circulated that the trial had been stopped because the protracted Guinness saga was becoming an embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 6 | By 1898 national interest had been aroused and the British Institute of Undertakers was formed , succeeding where the United Company of Undertakers had failed 160 years previously . |
| 7 | Some protestors demonstrated against her Dresden visit ; wartime bitterness had earlier been aroused when the Queen Mother on May 31 unveiled a statue in London to Sir Arthur " Bomber " Harris , wartime head of Bomber Command , and when German plans were disclosed ( but subsequently cancelled ) to commemorate officially on Oct. 5 the 50th anniversary of the development of the V2 rocket technology on the island Oie off Peenemünde on the Baltic coast . |
| 8 | Now , that decision has been overturned although the appeal judges spoke of strong mitigating factors in the case . |
| 9 | The first count of the declaration stated that the plaintiff had commenced action against the defendant in the Court of Exchequer to recover two sums of £700 and £1,300 , respectively , issue had been joined and the hearing was to take place on December 7 , 1844 ; that the defendant , on December 6 , 1844 , promised the plaintiff that , if he ( plaintiff ) would forbear prosecuting the proceedings until December 14 , the defendant would on that day pay the money with interest and costs ; that the plaintiff , relying on this promise , forbore prosecuting the action until the day named but that the defendant did not pay the money or costs . |
| 10 | The election of a mayor had been delayed since the resignation of a candidate originally elected on Feb. 9 ( an independent supported by the HDUR ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Gilding the lily ’ PLANS to rename Scarborough Technical College the Yorkshire Coast College of Further and Higher Education have been delayed while the Yorkshire Coast 's other colleges at Redcar and Bridlington are consulted by North Yorkshire County Council . |
| 12 | Although the military authorities soon vacated the school to move into Doncaster Racecourse across the road , the re-opening of the school had been delayed and the Christmas holidays had to be cut to make up for the loss of time . |
| 13 | Indeed , when the film came out in 1971 , it was preceded by a clever advertising campaign suggesting that release had been delayed because the makers felt the movie was too dangerous for general viewing . |
| 14 | The airport 's opening has been delayed because the island is subsiding . |
| 15 | THE disciplinary hearing of a senior council official accused of gross misconduct has been delayed until a legal dispute is settled , writes John Smith . |
| 16 | PLANNING consent for a combined Elim church and community centre has been delayed until the applicants change the plans to improve the ‘ bland and unattractive appearance ’ of the scheme . |
| 17 | It had a peak of over 31,000 contracts on 5 October 1990 when sterling joined the ERM , the announcement of which had been delayed until the main London cash markets closed . |
| 18 | How the latter will be achieved remains to be seen , but it has been mooted that a surcharge should be levied on tropical timber , to be paid by the market , which could be used to undertake research into ways of achieving and ensuring tropical forest survival . |
| 19 | In the early stages of the planning of the New York show , it had been mooted that the pictures from the Russian , French and American institutions could be lent to each musem in turn . |
| 20 | Can I assist here ? the motion that has been mooted and the amendment has been proposed the amendment has been accepted the question now is whether what the the motion has been made and uh it is a matter for you to go to your suggested that certain members be allowed to speak at the end of the day it is a matter for you to decide uh control of the who is allowed to speak on that particular motion as amended of course |
| 21 | The majority of their lordships rejected this argument and held that it had been intended that a customer who accepted the offer by buying four gallons would thereby become entitled in law to have a World Cup coin . |
| 22 | It had never been intended that the flimsy structure should support such a weighty assembly , so with a creaking and a cracking and much shouting and swearing down it went in a flurry of legs and arms and broken planks and red Australian dust . |
| 23 | Enough to know that her righteous indignation would fade under the realisation that no malice had been intended and no real harm done . |
| 24 | The first is that of the relationship between theory and practice , about which much has been heard since the Second World War as higher education has been used more and more as an entry route by professions seeking higher status . |
| 25 | It seems to me a matter of the highest possible importance that where a quasi-judicial function is being exercised , under such circumstances as it had to be exercised here , with the result of depriving people of their property , especially if it is done without compensation , the persons concerned should be satisfied that nothing unfair has been done in the matter , and that ex parte statements have not been heard before the decision has been given without any chance for the person concerned to refute those statements . |
| 26 | It has long been recognized that a variety of structural divisions have generated more or less distinct cultures and sub-cultures , whether based on class divisions , age , gender or religion . |
| 27 | Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme . |
| 28 | IT has long been recognized that the electrical conductivity of the lower continental crust is anomalously high . |
| 29 | Going back to the early thoughts of the RHA on the matter in the mid-1970s , it had been recognized that the reduction in the hospital populations meant that there would be competition for any savings between the hospitals themselves and district services . |
| 30 | In the absence of formal evidence , this claim can not be checked , but it has always been recognized that the choice of Gloucester to head the government was an obvious possibility for the dying king . |