Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appearance in the Tripoli courtroom of the two suspects , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , disproved persistent US suggestions that they had been hidden or even executed by the Libyan authorities . |
| 2 | Mr Gould moved on to Brussels , where his anti-EEC inclinations — which have been hidden though never abandoned in recent years — became entrenched . |
| 3 | Given that the recognition of the significance of portal hypertension in portopulmonary hypertension is recent , it is possible that other cases of PBC associated primary PHT have been dismissed as merely associated with liver disease . |
| 4 | As many as 60 political parties were believed to have been legalized or freshly created during the 13 months following the publication in December 1989 of the draft joint constitution for a unified Yemen . |
| 5 | What is now required is a large scale , well co-ordinated research programme on the products from all known kilns , many of which have been excavated but never published . |
| 6 | Lesion studies have their own problems of interpretation , while other methods which might conceivably be used to establish cerebral dominance , such as dichaptic stimulation and the dual-task technique , have not been validated nor widely adopted in experiments with large numbers of left handers . |
| 7 | [ No shares or other securities of the Company have been registered or otherwise qualified for sale or resale under Federal or State laws in the United States of America or Canada . |
| 8 | A complete set of software tools to aid the physical mapping of a genome has been developed and successfully applied to the genomic mapping of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe . |
| 9 | This last , where a new corporate identity has been developed and recently launched , is particularly important in international markets . |
| 10 | Ever since that time , the fate of the Musgrave family and the strangely beautiful glass goblet have been regarded as inextricably entwined . |
| 11 | What strikes him of a sudden , as he remembers this experience , is how it had been foreseen and marmoreally recorded by Virgil : as Virgil 's Aeneas left doomed Troy , carrying his household and ancestral gods , so Pound leaves the doomed Rome of fascist Italy , carrying in his haversack his gods — books by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and T. E. Hulme and Percy Wyndham Lewis . |
| 12 | His distinguishing marks were a duelling scar across his hand , and also a deformed thumb that had been broken and badly reset ; it gave the impression of a parrot 's bill . |
| 13 | Her nails had been manicured and lightly touched with colour , and her cheeks , slightly flushed , seemed somehow to add emphasis to the startling green of her eyes . |
| 14 | No text is returned when entries have been modified and subsequently discarded . |
| 15 | A bricoleur was a handyman who , by using bits of machinery or equipment , the original purpose of which had been forgotten or never known , was able to solve immediate mechanical problems . |
| 16 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 17 | The dominant culture may well be one that has been fostered or actively imposed by the Organisation in the person of its managers . |
| 18 | In the mean time , some of his lands had been occupied and doubtless protected by royalist kinsmen — by Roger de Clifford and by William de Beauchamp of Elmley [ q.v. ] , who had married one of Fitzjohn 's sisters . |
| 19 | Proposals to replace this path with a motor road have been considered but happily pigeon-holed . |
| 20 | They have been considered as directly related to cephalaspids . |
| 21 | In the opinion of many , the finest eighteenth-century French furniture set a standard of quality and craftsmanship that has never been equalled though much emulated , appearing in such widely divergent mutations as John Henry Belter 's high Victorian rococo revival to the sleek Art Deco refinement of Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann . |
| 22 | Power stations have been designed and successfully operated on the basis of that knowledge . |
| 23 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 24 | Faeces were collected in plastic buckets to which 10 ml of thiomersal solution ( 1:1000 ) had been added and immediately stored at 4°C . |
| 25 | Jeffrey had apparently either been rescued or cruelly done to death . |
| 26 | Once the basic approach had been decided and successfully implemented , the system could then easily be extended to cover all BAA employees . |
| 27 | Feelings have often run high , especially where learning opportunities are perceived to have been mismanaged or ineptly handled . |
| 28 | Briefly , briefly tonight er Reynolds and Major issued this statement which said all those claiming a serious interest in advancing the cause of peace in Ireland should renounce of or support for violence if and when such a renunciation of violence has been made and sufficiently demonstrated , new doors could open , do you think the I R A might well respond positively to that ? |
| 29 | When buying a property on a registered building estate or other development in respect of which the layout plan has been lodged and officially approved , make your search on Form 94B , when ( unlike other searches against part only of a title ) reference to the approved plan avoids the need to enclose a plan with your search . |
| 30 | In liberal democracies , there is , to varying degrees , a functional differentiation between legislative and executive tasks , although this has been seen as increasingly eroded by the growth of executive policy-making powers , whether de facto or statutory , and the emergence of policy-making ‘ communities ’ within the state administration . |