Example sentences of "been [verb] in [adj] [noun prp] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Courses have also been arranged in Eastern Europe with the help of the Know How Fund . |
| 4 | I still number some of them as personal friends all these years later , but at the time what struck me was their unbelievable competence and sheer quality compared with the wretchedly small scope they had been given in prewar Britain . |
| 5 | Depos had been formed in late May by two opposition parliamentary parties — the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) and the Democratic Party ( DS ) — and the Serbian Liberal Party and the New Democracy-Movement for Serbia . |
| 6 | The UUUC had been formed in early December to bring together Westite Unionists , Vanguard Unionists and Democratic Unionists for electioneering and propaganda purposes . |
| 7 | An independent user group has been formed in central London covering Lotus Development Corp 's Notes groupware product : the Lotus Notes User Group is to provide a forum for discussing strategic issues of using Notes in business , as well as application ideas and will maintain close links with the Worldwide Lotus Notes Users and Technologists . |
| 8 | THE Committee for Socialist Democracy , which has just been formed in riot-torn Timisoara , is the first sign of organised and coherent opposition in Romania since President Ceausescu became Communist Party leader almost 25 years ago . |
| 9 | Although the disagreements had been resolved in early March , continuing dissatisfaction in some quarters of the FKgP had been highlighted by the passage on March 18 of a vote of no confidence in FKgP parliamentary group leader Jozsef Torgyan , because of a speech he had made at a rally on March 9 attacking the voucher scheme . |
| 10 | They broke into the vehicle , which had been parked in Front Street , Sowerby , and stole sunglasses , cassettes and a bag containing sports equipment . |
| 11 | Reports of fighting in the strategic southern town of Malakal , the capital of Upper Nile province , which had been reported in late October as clashes between the rebel Sudan People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) and government forces [ see p. 39132 ] , were confused by conflicting accounts during November . |
| 12 | Around 500,000 hectares of forest are said to have been destroyed , and fires have also been reported in western Java and south Sulawesi . |
| 13 | Induction had been considered in one LEA , but a plan to use a local college 's advanced courses had not been implemented . |
| 14 | What has been happening in Latin America is that the growth of education has been much faster than structural change in society , with the result that some of the potential value of education for social mobility is lost . |
| 15 | The Economist of Oct. 6 reported that demonstrations had been organized in southern Bhutan between Sept. 19 and 23 by the outlawed Bhutan People 's Party ( BPP ) , most of whose supporters were members of the ethnic Nepalese community . |
| 16 | There are some TNCs that have been operating in Latin America , Africa and Asia for decades and have won enviable reputations as model employers . |
| 17 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 18 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 19 | The " Open Skies " policy had been proposed by the United States in December 1989 [ see pp. 37112 ] , and test flights had been made in eastern Europe [ see p. 37201 ] , but talks on its implementation had effectively been suspended in May 1990 after Soviet expressions of reservations over militarily sensitive areas [ see pp. 37267 ; 38255 ] and they had been reconvened only on Sept. 9 , 1991 [ see p. 38458 ] . |
| 20 | A number of his fellow Cheshires who have been serving in war-torn Bosnia were also honoured for their gallantry . |
| 21 | The so-called " Baker plan " had been accepted in early November by the Israeli Cabinet , on condition that the USA guaranteed the non-involvement of the PLO [ see p. 37051 ] . |
| 22 | The national church organization had long been accepted in central Europe : bishops were the crown 's natural advisers , the crown 's civil servants . |
| 23 | A policy of nothing less than ‘ state terrorism ’ had been adopted in Central America , the Middle East , Afghanistan and southern Africa . |
| 24 | John Moore continued his ‘ assault on dependency ’ in 1989 by arguing that real poverty has already been abolished in modern Britain . |
| 25 | A striking example of rural population mixing has been produced in northern Scotland by the North Sea oil industry . |
| 26 | ‘ That cabinet would have been used in that Granada programme about India , I think , yes Jewel in the Crown , that 's it , ’ he said vaguely during a guided tour of the warehouse . |
| 27 | The elections had been called in early October [ see p. 37724 ] after President Wojciech Jaruzelski , the last remaining communist head of state in eastern Europe except for that of Albania , had agreed to resign just over a year into his six-year term and to transfer power to a freely elected head of state . |
| 28 | In the past year , more than £6 million has been invested in new Edinburgh premises for HMSO . |
| 29 | Empirical Socialism may be supposed to have judged that that point had been reached in western Europe by the 1960s . |
| 30 | ( A different result has been reached in some US states , the blackmail statutes of which are couched differently , e.g. Iowa : State v Todd ( 1900 ) 82 NW 322 . ) |