Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The struggle for Cyprus had been eased by British acceptance of the Sovereign Base concept , though the Zurich Agreement between Greece and Turkey , which enabled Britain to grant Cyprus its independence , was not signed until February 1959 . |
| 2 | Gen. V. Dovgan , a senior military-industrial administrator , had been dismissed and stripped of his rank after it had been revealed that he informally approved the sale of the tanks to ANT , and Deputy Aviation Industry Minister Anatoly Bratukhin had been dismissed for gross violation of arms export regulations . |
| 3 | Wirral Tory claims that the situation is a result of Labour councillors backing a ‘ ca n't pay , wont pay ’ campaign have been dismissed by Labour leader Coun Dave Jackson . |
| 4 | Gavin , since been dismissed by local government union Nalgo , was a full-time union official representing thousands of council employees . |
| 5 | Although Summers presents government and law enforcement in America as having been riddled with clandestine behaviour , from the amount of material he gathered he would seen to have demonstrated the effectiveness of the Freedom of Information Act . |
| 6 | She sat back , visualising the scene as the mud in the sample had been examined by remote control , and the virus isolated . |
| 7 | The entire Barnes collection has been examined by National Gallery conservators , and the National Gallery has agreed to arrange for the tour 's transportation and insurance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | On the one hand as was mentioned at the outset of this chapter and in Chapter 2 , the physical relationships which determine rates of soil erosion have been examined within natural science disciplines of hydrology , agricultural engineering and agricultural botany . |
| 13 | The attempt had been strengthened by the respect and admiration for Russian arms that had been aroused by Russian resistance on the eastern front . |
| 14 | The interior was still waiting for its first clean and the upholstery felt as if it had been textured in buff nicotine . |
| 15 | Forty per cent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years . |
| 16 | In his day , works on Evolution had been catalogued under Pre-Adamite Man . |
| 17 | In ( h ) you will see yellow has been blended into pale lilac and in ( i ) pale lilac has been rubbed into French blue . |
| 18 | The team has been joined by full-time translator Sarah Hutton , whose specialities are Dutch and Russian . |
| 19 | Like all Chinese bikes , it is an all-purpose workhorse : so strong it will probably go on and on , until like most other bikes on the road its seat leather is worn right through and every part has been patched by street-corner bike repairers . |
| 20 | It has been delayed pending final clearance . |
| 21 | Research director Ulrich Seiffert was anxious to put an end to rumours that the engine had been delayed by chronic friction and vibration problems . |
| 22 | Both indices have weakened somewhat in recent months , however , a pattern consistent with the view that recovery has been delayed by political uncertainty and will occur once the election is out of the way . |
| 23 | EXPLORER Sir Ranulph Fiennes ' polar trek has been delayed by bad weather . |
| 24 | The appointment of the Cabinet had been delayed by intense rivalry for places between Samakkhi Tham and Chart Thai . |
| 25 | Long service awards for trio of Terriers THREE part-time soldiers with nearly 70 years in uniform between them have been honoured for long service . |
| 26 | Observers suggest that readers lured by promotions such as the October British Airways offer have been stabilised by added value supplements such as the fashion supplement Visage , launched in the same month . |
| 27 | The Ministry of Agriculture statement said that the warning had been intended as preventative advice . |
| 28 | These settings must have been intended for private use since Calvin objected to polyphony in church , but when the Lutherans adopted them , using Ambrosius Lobwasser 's translation of Marot-de Beze ( Leipzig , 1573 ) , their congregations undoubtedly sang the tunes . |
| 29 | ( b ) The property must have been intended for private use , occupation or consumption . |
| 30 | But all the time there would be this comforting regularity beneath the surface ; the sound of rattling dice would have been banished from fundamental physics . |