Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The enemy 's base , a disused farmhouse , has been examined in great detail by an earlier reconnaissance patrol and everyone knows , in theory at least , how to reach it and What to do on arrival .
6 Although parts of this tradition have been examined in great detail , some of the most important aspects of it for this theme have received little attention .
7 Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York .
8 Magritte 's career has not been examined in such detail in Britain since Sylvester curated a smaller and more exclusive exhibition for the Tate Gallery in 1969 .
9 The role of these polymorphisms in a predisposition to alcoholic liver disease has now been examined in two studies .
10 This hypothesis has been examined in several studies looking at the PiZ phenotype and periportal α 1 AT granules in patients and controls , and no evidence to support involvement of α 1 AT in genetic predisposition has been found .
11 The accident records at these schools have been examined in considerable detail by the Departments of Highways and Education and the Police and four areas have been highlighted for further action and detailed investigation .
12 It is frustrating that so little pottery from settlements has been examined in this manner , although Brisbane ( 1981 ) has proposed a model for various modes of production that may be appropriate for such pottery .
13 The formation of a strategy for confronting the current crisis of accumulation in the world capitalist system will depend on the factors that have been examined in this chapter : the balance of social forces , class strategies and forms of political representation ; the broad historical character of the state ; and its internal composition , organizational interests , and dynamic .
14 To be fair to Lewis , he followed instructions more closely than in the past and jabbed his way in before breaking up Dixon , who had not been stopped in 15 fights .
15 This arrangement might well have been satisfactory , with some accommodation between the two sides being not too difficult to achieve , but for the rancour that had been aroused in recent years .
16 The interior was still waiting for its first clean and the upholstery felt as if it had been textured in buff nicotine .
17 I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns .
18 And the substance of my apprehension is to be found in the formidable dossiers of attainment which have been catalogued in numerous obituaries over the past week .
19 Kites have been flown in all cultures at all times .
20 Where towns have been joined in this way the whole built-up area is called a conurbation .
21 Gould had arranged to rendezvous with Gilbert in Sydney before leaving for England , but so eager was he to set sail with his precious cargo that when it seemed Gilbert might have been delayed in Western Australia , he left without seeing him .
22 1.21 The plaintiff 's rights in relation to medical examinations by the defendant 's doctor have been redefined in two cases .
23 Over centuries gypsies have been persecuted in varying degrees ; but now they are as much the victims of general trends and events taking place without regard to or for them .
24 The voices of rural families have seldom been heard in effective protest , and least of all in socialist states such as Tanzania and Mozambique , each of which have compelled large chunks of their rural population to live in communal villages against their will .
25 Frodo indeed laughs himself : ‘ Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth .
26 Movie memorabilia is nothing new but cries of blaX-ploitation have been heard in some quarters .
27 Our room appeared not to have been inhabited in living memory .
28 One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language .
29 That this energy under its various names appears to have been recognized in diverse cultures yet be almost totally ignored by orthodox science is in itself very interesting .
30 To the extent that social research more generally has retained an interest in social reform this has been redirected in various ways .
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