Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem of lack of time has been eased to some degree by the setting up of communal kitchens like those in Lima , Peru . |
| 2 | Pressure on the finances has been eased by Euro Disney 's deferring its base management fee for 1992 and 1993 , due to the Walt Disney Company in America . |
| 3 | The struggle for Cyprus had been eased by British acceptance of the Sovereign Base concept , though the Zurich Agreement between Greece and Turkey , which enabled Britain to grant Cyprus its independence , was not signed until February 1959 . |
| 4 | Those who have been filled with all the previous beatitudes of Christ now overflow in mercy to those around them . |
| 5 | They thought it normal for tea to come out of the fridge or the oven in a tinfoil box with a peel-back lid , although they did remember for weeks afterwards Lucy 's occasional cordon-bleu phases , when the house had been filled with heart-warming smells , and different kinds of food had appeared out of saucepans on top of the oven , and other dishes inside it . |
| 6 | Assume next that an urn has been filled with 1000 identical marbles . |
| 7 | Assume next that an urn has been filled with 1000 identical marbles . |
| 8 | The triangular market place was tightly packed with such properties and much of the original space had been filled with permanent buildings where once only stalls had been allowed . |
| 9 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 10 | The two men , both facing terrorist charges , escaped after producing a gun , which had been hidden in one of their shoes , as they were being escorted back to the prison 's secure unit from attending mass in the chapel . |
| 11 | More than 70 per cent of adult Albanians have been dismissed on ethnic grounds from jobs as various as toilet cleaners , museum curators and power plant directors . |
| 12 | And the pressures are probably much greater within the public sector , if only because of the difficulty of obtaining further employment in the public sector if one has been dismissed for disciplinary reasons . |
| 13 | Gen. V. Dovgan , a senior military-industrial administrator , had been dismissed and stripped of his rank after it had been revealed that he informally approved the sale of the tanks to ANT , and Deputy Aviation Industry Minister Anatoly Bratukhin had been dismissed for gross violation of arms export regulations . |
| 14 | Ernst Verdieu , the Minister of Social Affairs , and Smark Michel , the Trade and Industry Minister were dismissed on June 14 and replaced respectively by Myrtho Céleston and Jean François Chamblain ; the Justice Minister , Bayard Vincent , had been dismissed in late May and replaced by Karl Auguste . |
| 15 | On these occasions those temporary workers recruited were ex-employees — those who had been dismissed in recent downturns and who had been unable to find a new job . |
| 16 | In June Hubert Ingraham , another former minister who had been dismissed in 1984 [ ibid. ] , was elected leader of the opposition Free National Movement ( FNM ) after the death on May 9 , 1990 , of its former leader Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield [ for whom see also p. 35373 ] . |
| 17 | Even the work of scribes writing centuries after the Conquest has been dismissed in this way , seemingly mainly because it is variable , and not because we can ( usually ) know whether the scribe was a first-language speaker of Anglo-Norman , or whether it would have been relevant if he had been . |
| 18 | In the 1980s , Rothenberg explored the human form , which had been dismissed by early minimalists as having no new means of expression . |
| 19 | In John Hart 's case , his appeal to the House of Lords against the decisions of the High Court and the Court of Appeal would have been dismissed by four to one , had proceedings as related in Hansard not been allowed as evidence . |
| 20 | Wirral Tory claims that the situation is a result of Labour councillors backing a ‘ ca n't pay , wont pay ’ campaign have been dismissed by Labour leader Coun Dave Jackson . |
| 21 | Gavin , since been dismissed by local government union Nalgo , was a full-time union official representing thousands of council employees . |
| 22 | The KPNLF , which has about 7,000 men , had until recently been dismissed by military analysts as a badly organised force more interested in black-market activities across the Thai-Cambodia border than military operations . |
| 23 | On May 16 two white mine officials were killed in clashes at the nearby President Steyn gold mine , where black miners had been dismissed after first being attacked by their white colleagues for wearing ANC emblems . |
| 24 | And though the protracted battles between Congress and the Bush administration which have been waged in recent years are unlikely , Clinton 's proposals could be changed significantly by Congress prior to enactment . |
| 25 | The ECM being essentially free and unregulated is governed by the principles of competition while most domestic money markets have been riddled with monopolistic elements and restrictive practices , e.g. credit ( loan ) allocation rules , which sought to secure a privileged position for certain vested parties such as government borrowers and domestic banks . |
| 26 | The Youth Training Scheme has , from its inception , been riddled with racist practices . |
| 27 | Although Summers presents government and law enforcement in America as having been riddled with clandestine behaviour , from the amount of material he gathered he would seen to have demonstrated the effectiveness of the Freedom of Information Act . |
| 28 | In the sample design programme , the effect on sampling errors of clustering the sample — usually in wards or polling districts — has been examined for different types of questions and for different population subgroups . |
| 29 | Some vertical agreements , such as exclusive distribution and exclusive purchasing , have been examined under this framework . |
| 30 | She sat back , visualising the scene as the mud in the sample had been examined by remote control , and the virus isolated . |