Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If not , the ratification of Maastricht should not be taken as a signal that the Europe of the past few decades has been assured of perpetuity , but rather that a redefinition of its ambitions is overdue . |
| 2 | More recently use has been made of machine readable dictionaries and thesauri to obtain semantically-based groupings of words ( e.g. ( Alshawi , 1987 ) , ( Amsler , 1981 ) ) . |
| 3 | Considerable use has been made of actuality , especially in BBC regional weekly , review programmes , and there has been a reasonable amount of committee coverage . |
| 4 | Mention has been made of M. Spencer Ell the auditor , who gave generously of his services and bequeathed the Club a substantial legacy . |
| 5 | If it has been made of lead , then I would also have suggested that it was a pommel . |
| 6 | In the space of four weeks , not only has the car been broken into , but the Health Centre has been robbed of computer hardware for our new cardiovascular screening programme , I have been threatened with violence in my consulting-room for refusing to prescribe opiates and my home has been burgled at 5.00 am by a seventeen-year-old wielding a club hammer . |
| 7 | Diphda is of type K , and is obviously orange ; it has been suspected of variability , but is awkward to estimate , because there are no suitable comparison stars anywhere near it . |
| 8 | Now that Argo Navis has been dismantled , Hydra is the largest constellation in the sky , but it has only one bright star , the reddish Alpha or Alphard , nicknamed the ‘ Solitary One ’ because of its isolation ; it has been suspected of variability , though officially the magnitude is given as constant at 2.0 . |
| 9 | It has been suspected of variability , but at present , at least , the magnitude seems to be steady at 3.1 . |
| 10 | Whatever may be true of the world , and , as follows from what has been said of necessitation , our conception of an effect is not a conception of an event that occurs if a usual background exists , or an event which follows on something required for it , but might not have occurred , or a merely probable event . |
| 11 | A WIFE accused of punching a woman who had an affair with her husband has been cleared of assault . |
| 12 | A JILTED woman who rang her ex-boyfriend up to 36 times a day has been cleared of phone pest charges because she was in love . |
| 13 | A farrier has been cleared of ill-treating a horse following claims that he allowed his apprentice to hit the animal around the head with a broom handle . |
| 14 | The loom under suspicion has been cleared of involvement as they are now back at work , fit and well ! |
| 15 | This is the Roman road from Malton to Whitby and has been cleared of vegetation and exposed to show its structure . |
| 16 | The local financial system has been drained of liquidity , interest rates have gone up and the stockmarket has been falling . |
| 17 | Noel Rogers has been convicted of drink driving 4 times . |
| 18 | It 's the second time van driver Martin Clarke has been convicted of drink-driving . |
| 19 | He has been convicted of car crimes 16 times and had one charge pending at the time of our discussions three months ago . |
| 20 | For example , knowing someone has been convicted of theft might influence one 's reactions and attitudes to that person . |
| 21 | He has been convicted of crime , and we shall assume for the moment that he has not behaved himself within the meaning of these words . |
| 22 | After it has been emptied of radioactivity , the cone-shaped plastic insert is removed from the bottle . |
| 23 | But it is n't because of some secret triumph of racism it 's because the claim he 's making has been emptied of meaning . |
| 24 | Well it has been suggested of course that the people do experience personality changes when their behind |
| 25 | The SADF has been accused of involvement in ivory smuggling in the past , notably during the Angolan and Namibian wars , when the local elephant population was devastated . |
| 26 | A 17-year-old youth has been accused of assault . |
| 27 | The Welsh Office has been accused of complacency over food poisoning outbreaks in a damning new report by an all-Party Commons committee . |
| 28 | The family has been told of delay after delay . |
| 29 | We all know what has happened since the Health Service has been starved of money . |
| 30 | Intact chromosomes can be lifted out of cells for genetic studies ; plant protoplasts ( cells devoid of their cell walls ) can be persuaded to grow into whole plants and much has been learned of plant metabolism by grafting experiments — for example the grafting of tomato tops to potato tubers demonstrated the energy storing capacity of tubers , although the — hybrid was of little practical value hybrids of potato and tomato cells have also been grown . |