Example sentences of "[been] [verb] of [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 2 | Chancellor Norman Lamont has been stripped of all credibility here and abroad . |
| 3 | Once a self- sufficient farmer , Ahmed Mahlim , 53 , has been stripped of all dignity . |
| 4 | It is , however , possible that the experimental data would not be thought conclusive either ; most of the experiments that have been done of this type have been rather artificial ( Marsh 1985a ) . |
| 5 | Nothing had been said of such matters during the interview : that , too , was the old Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | The turning point came in July 1973 , when a White House official almost accidentally let it be known that tape recordings had regularly been made of all conversations conducted by the President in the White House . |
| 7 | A number of methodological criticisms have been made of these studies which cast serious doubt on the validity of their findings . |
| 8 | Recent criticisms have been made of several aspects of this approach . |
| 9 | Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life . |
| 10 | I agree entirely with my hon. Friend , and so does every independent study and assessment that has been made of this matter . |
| 11 | However , despite an increase in collaborative ventures criticisms have been made of this form of organisation . |
| 12 | The many criticisms that have been made of this body of work will be recognised , but again we will be arguing that it has much to teach us , especially as regards incorporating an understanding of instinctive behaviour into an understanding of social relations and moral careers . |
| 13 | ‘ ( The European Parliament ) … considers that , in the absence of palliative care correctly provided at both psychological and medical level , each time a fully conscious patient insistently and repeatedly requests an end to an existence which has for him been robbed of all dignity , and each time a team of doctors created for that purpose , established the impossibility of providing further specific care , the request should be satisfied without thereby involving any breach of respect for human life . ’ |
| 14 | Although Scottish goalkeepers have been accused of all sorts of malpractices , troilism is rarely mentioned . |
| 15 | Indeed , all three contenders for the leadership had been accused of such involvement at one point or another : Watanabe 's staff had been deeply implicated in the Recruit affair , and Mitsuzuka had been linked with other scandals involving illegal fund-raising activities for the LDP . |
| 16 | I have been accused of many things , but never of being a papal legate . |
| 17 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 18 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 19 | The one disappointing feature was that the legal profession had not been notified of this event despite the Bar 's recorded interest . |
| 20 | In December 1969 , after Conservative protests had been disposed of that Parliament was being asked to reach a decision at an unnecessarily early stage ( a General Election was in the offing ) , both Houses agreed that the 1965 Act should not expire . |
| 21 | Lord Spens FCA , the former managing director of corporate finance at Henry Ansbacher , has been acquitted of all charges arising from his involvement in the Guinness takeover of Distillers in 1986 . |
| 22 | Advantage has also been taken of this facility by Czechoslovakia . |
| 23 | Another factor also should have brought the French staff to this conclusion : the great fortress , and its double defensive ring of 21 smaller forts , had recently been shorn of many guns for service elsewhere on the Western Front . |
| 24 | The LA has the power to revoke , suspend , curtail or prematurely terminate a licence if the holder has ( a ) broken any conditions attaching to his licence , or ( b ) been convicted of any offences which are of the type relevant to determination of the applicant 's fitness to hold a licence in the first place , or ( c ) been made bankrupt or gone into liquidation . |
| 25 | Concrete sleepers and 60-foot rails have been placed constituting several track panels , while the original platform at Swithland has been cleared of much undergrowth , with more sleepers placed in position . |
| 26 | Five men accused of staging a cock-fight have been cleared of all charges . |
| 27 | Once the flue has been cleared of all blockages , the smoke test might reveal cracks which have to be mended before a fire can be used . |
| 28 | As for ‘ le piston ’ , it is true that three senators have been accused of fraud , bribery and tax evasion in the past three years , but they have all been cleared of these charges by other senators . |
| 29 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 30 | As he stood on the tee with the green five hundred yards away , Kyle must have been thinking of another birdie , possibly an eagle . |