Example sentences of "been [vb pp] of [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Chancellor Norman Lamont has been stripped of all credibility here and abroad . |
| 3 | Once a self- sufficient farmer , Ahmed Mahlim , 53 , has been stripped of all dignity . |
| 4 | It is , however , possible that the experimental data would not be thought conclusive either ; most of the experiments that have been done of this type have been rather artificial ( Marsh 1985a ) . |
| 5 | Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life . |
| 6 | I agree entirely with my hon. Friend , and so does every independent study and assessment that has been made of this matter . |
| 7 | However , despite an increase in collaborative ventures criticisms have been made of this form of organisation . |
| 8 | The many criticisms that have been made of this body of work will be recognised , but again we will be arguing that it has much to teach us , especially as regards incorporating an understanding of instinctive behaviour into an understanding of social relations and moral careers . |
| 9 | ‘ ( The European Parliament ) … considers that , in the absence of palliative care correctly provided at both psychological and medical level , each time a fully conscious patient insistently and repeatedly requests an end to an existence which has for him been robbed of all dignity , and each time a team of doctors created for that purpose , established the impossibility of providing further specific care , the request should be satisfied without thereby involving any breach of respect for human life . ’ |
| 10 | Indeed , all three contenders for the leadership had been accused of such involvement at one point or another : Watanabe 's staff had been deeply implicated in the Recruit affair , and Mitsuzuka had been linked with other scandals involving illegal fund-raising activities for the LDP . |
| 11 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 12 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 13 | The one disappointing feature was that the legal profession had not been notified of this event despite the Bar 's recorded interest . |
| 14 | In December 1969 , after Conservative protests had been disposed of that Parliament was being asked to reach a decision at an unnecessarily early stage ( a General Election was in the offing ) , both Houses agreed that the 1965 Act should not expire . |
| 15 | Advantage has also been taken of this facility by Czechoslovakia . |
| 16 | Concrete sleepers and 60-foot rails have been placed constituting several track panels , while the original platform at Swithland has been cleared of much undergrowth , with more sleepers placed in position . |
| 17 | They will not accept it as true that they murdered God , whereas we admit it and have been cleansed of that guilt . |
| 18 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 19 | Her courtiers have all been informed of this decision and have acted accordingly . |