Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appearance in the Tripoli courtroom of the two suspects , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , disproved persistent US suggestions that they had been hidden or even executed by the Libyan authorities . |
| 2 | Mr Gould moved on to Brussels , where his anti-EEC inclinations — which have been hidden though never abandoned in recent years — became entrenched . |
| 3 | Given that the recognition of the significance of portal hypertension in portopulmonary hypertension is recent , it is possible that other cases of PBC associated primary PHT have been dismissed as merely associated with liver disease . |
| 4 | Another unexpected disappearance from the scene was that of the defence minister himself , Adnan Khairallah , the President 's cousin , reported early in 1989 as having been dismissed and later to have died in a helicopter crash . |
| 5 | Both carburettors have been overhauled and then ret up on a crypton machine . |
| 6 | While the referendum had not been intended as legally binding by the government , on the strength of the result the Supreme Council on Feb. 11 adopted a constitutional law proclaiming Lithuania " an independent democratic republic " . |
| 7 | As many as 60 political parties were believed to have been legalized or freshly created during the 13 months following the publication in December 1989 of the draft joint constitution for a unified Yemen . |
| 8 | I find her difficult to handle and my soundings are that she is deeply unpopular in Fleet St. She is also said to be extremely bitter about the way she has been treated and evidently stands to make millions from various lawsuits . |
| 9 | What is now required is a large scale , well co-ordinated research programme on the products from all known kilns , many of which have been excavated but never published . |
| 10 | Martinsville , USA : The three industrial products businesses within Courtaulds Films , covering dyed films , vacuum coating and coating/laminating , have been decentralised and now operate as closely linked but separate businesses . |
| 11 | Lesion studies have their own problems of interpretation , while other methods which might conceivably be used to establish cerebral dominance , such as dichaptic stimulation and the dual-task technique , have not been validated nor widely adopted in experiments with large numbers of left handers . |
| 12 | [ No shares or other securities of the Company have been registered or otherwise qualified for sale or resale under Federal or State laws in the United States of America or Canada . |
| 13 | A complete set of software tools to aid the physical mapping of a genome has been developed and successfully applied to the genomic mapping of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe . |
| 14 | This last , where a new corporate identity has been developed and recently launched , is particularly important in international markets . |
| 15 | Ever since that time , the fate of the Musgrave family and the strangely beautiful glass goblet have been regarded as inextricably entwined . |
| 16 | What strikes him of a sudden , as he remembers this experience , is how it had been foreseen and marmoreally recorded by Virgil : as Virgil 's Aeneas left doomed Troy , carrying his household and ancestral gods , so Pound leaves the doomed Rome of fascist Italy , carrying in his haversack his gods — books by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and T. E. Hulme and Percy Wyndham Lewis . |
| 17 | His distinguishing marks were a duelling scar across his hand , and also a deformed thumb that had been broken and badly reset ; it gave the impression of a parrot 's bill . |
| 18 | Her nails had been manicured and lightly touched with colour , and her cheeks , slightly flushed , seemed somehow to add emphasis to the startling green of her eyes . |
| 19 | in calculating lost pension rights the correct approach is 1 ) apply the appropriate multiplier to the appropriate multiplicand 2 ) the appropriate multiplicand is the pursuers level of wage which would have been received if currently employed 3 ) allowing for all contingencies including the chance of obtaining a pension in the future the multiplier for a 48 year old was 6 4 ) the resulting figure should be reduced for the accelerated benefit bearing in mind that the pension would not have been paid before age 65 . |
| 20 | No text is returned when entries have been modified and subsequently discarded . |
| 21 | The lathe has been modified and now has an indexing system with a range of divisions with 16 , 32 or 60 stops . |
| 22 | A bricoleur was a handyman who , by using bits of machinery or equipment , the original purpose of which had been forgotten or never known , was able to solve immediate mechanical problems . |
| 23 | To the right of the two churches , down near the water , is the grotto itself , a humbler place though naturally not spared the apparatus of the cult : a statue of the Virgin , an altar , seats , a small and poignant row of crutches that have been discarded and now hang against the rock wall . |
| 24 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 25 | Later research suggests , however , that they were more common in the North-west than had been supposed and probably began in the South-east in the late sixteenth century , and has cast doubt on the validity of seeking to impose too rigid a geographical pattern on food rioting from the recorded incidence . |
| 26 | The dominant culture may well be one that has been fostered or actively imposed by the Organisation in the person of its managers . |
| 27 | In the mean time , some of his lands had been occupied and doubtless protected by royalist kinsmen — by Roger de Clifford and by William de Beauchamp of Elmley [ q.v. ] , who had married one of Fitzjohn 's sisters . |
| 28 | Although this creature has not been reported as actually killing any people , its appearance is a frightening one with eyewitnesses testifying to its huge head and swelling shoulders , and the fearsome groans it emits . |
| 29 | Proposals to replace this path with a motor road have been considered but happily pigeon-holed . |
| 30 | They have been considered as directly related to cephalaspids . |