Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] of all " in BNC.
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1 | Do not tell me that Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalwolsey , renowned in the ranks of chivalry , has been deprived of all dealings with the female kind ? |
2 | 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 . |
3 | However , the long-planned Venus orbiting image radar , due to map the planet by the end of the decade , has been stripped of all but its mapping equipment . |
4 | Once a self- sufficient farmer , Ahmed Mahlim , 53 , has been stripped of all dignity . |
5 | Chancellor Norman Lamont has been stripped of all credibility here and abroad . |
6 | There comes a time , for people like you and me , when the mind has been stripped of all that is mythic . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | So , having been robbed of all convenient benchmarks , I 'm somewhat at sea . |
9 | ‘ At the alleged places of detention , ’ Mr Ahtisaari said , ‘ the facilities were found to have been stripped of all valuable material and not to have been inhabited for several weeks at least . ’ |
10 | This room had been cleared of all but two of the great packages . |
11 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
12 | It is plain that if the judge had been appraised of all these matters now before the court , he would have come to the same conclusion as we have , namely that the necessary intention had not been proved on the part of the appellants . |
13 | During this same period a far wider survey had been undertaken of all the fifty-nine party cells in the Poltava guberniia . |
14 | But Celia Palmer , who took her lover 's name when she moved in with him , had been acquitted of all the gravest charges ‘ hanging over her head this long time ’ . |
15 | This aircraft , V7101 , had been stripped of all possible equipment and guns , and had been painted blue overall . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Five men accused of staging a cock-fight have been cleared of all charges . |
18 | Although Scottish goalkeepers have been accused of all sorts of malpractices , troilism is rarely mentioned . |