Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States sent $65m ( £40m ) of military aid to Colombia , but this has been called inappropriate and is alleged to be more suitable for fighting Colombia 's left-wing guerrillas than the cocaine mafia . |
| 2 | This causes him to doubt himself , that is his worthiness in loving Estella as he now thinks because he has been called common and coarse . |
| 3 | Colour micronization — means the colour pigments and other powdery ingredients in the make-up , traditionally a large and irregular size and shape , has been made smaller and more uniform for a softer product texture and more even colour application . |
| 4 | The price of the ticket has been kept low and it is necessary to run raffles to defray expenses . |
| 5 | A tiled Victorian fireplace has been kept intact and makes a pretty additional feature . |
| 6 | Colour is another consideration and here it has been kept pale and cool . |
| 7 | This animal has been ripped open and partly eaten ( by the Carrion ) . |
| 8 | In view of the degree of homology this cDNA has been named ICAM-3 and is predicted to encode a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily with five C2 domains . |
| 9 | Extremely profitable multinational companies sell size 10 clothes along with diets , cosmetics , ‘ Dallas ’ , beauty contests , gyms and junk food to First Nation/Third World cultures , where fat has been considered beautiful and healthy . |
| 10 | We might imagine a single-seater plane crashing in the desert because the pilot has been taken ill and died . |
| 11 | " She 's just told me her sister has been taken ill and she has to go and look after her . |
| 12 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 13 | Women who work in community are particularly at risk , housing wardens and particularly home care assistants , who work in some of the worst inner city areas are very often called out at night to attend someone who has been taken ill and yet no thought is given to the potential danger they could be facing in carrying out their job or what , to or what preventive measures can be taken . |
| 14 | Erm , now this a a castle which I 'm sure has been photographed thousands and thousands of times . |
| 15 | The powerboat world has been left high and dry this summer by a big red boat named Flippin Shytalk … its call sign is P69 … the only number that reads the same upside down … but the Oxfordshire crew that run and race her are on the very top of their sport at the moment … |
| 16 | French state and technocentric-inspired planning have had great successes in both telecommunications and space ; but the British have had their acknowledged successes also — most notably in the broadcasting field , where a traditional consensual policy has been modified step-by-step and channel-by-channel down the decades since 1922 . |
| 17 | Failing to set the handbrake is sometimes detected when it is too late i.e. when a vehicle has been parked unattended and has then begun to move and run away downhill , perhaps resulting in an accident . |
| 18 | Italian law provides an interesting comparison because the inquisitorial model has been found wanting and has been recently altered to include adversarial elements . |
| 19 | Vacuum ( strictly , low pressure : 10–15 mm Hg ) impregnation has been found consistent and satisfactory for most sediment types . |
| 20 | The opal allotoca , a two-inch fish species thought to be extinct , has been found alive and well in a large Mexican cattle pond . |
| 21 | , A blind , underground-dwelling spider species long thought to be extinct , Troglodiplura lowryi , has been found alive and well under the Nullabor Plains desert in South Australia . |
| 22 | Ask for this claim to be investigated , and find out whether anyone has been found responsible and brought to justice . |
| 23 | Like he 'd been cut open and died and I put my hand in all among his intestines . ’ |
| 24 | A court official admitted : ‘ The records should not have been made public and it is understandable people get upset . ’ |
| 25 | Where the main constructive waves are swell waves which may have been generated hundreds and even thousands of kilometres away and travelled on as free waves , it is quite likely that the local resultant wind has a far smaller part in the orientation of coastal forms . |
| 26 | She would have been kept busy and occupied , and well away from the sight , smell and temptation of food . |
| 27 | At that point the nurses would have said well , yes we can see the reasons because we 're nearly doctors as well , and the administrator would have been left high and dry . |
| 28 | ‘ Panic ’ should have been produced heavy and hard , lush and deep . |
| 29 | The North Sea Oil bonanza — money that should have been spent encouraging and harnessing the potential of young people to live in a new , modern world — was instead squandered paying them to stay on the dole and to stay away from schools , colleges and training . |
| 30 | One error and he would have been torn loose and hurled overboard to be smothered by the driving spray . |