Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 2 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |
| 3 | When all the evidence has been examined each representative will sum up his particular point of view , with the Attorney General having the last word . |
| 4 | then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another . |
| 5 | It has equally been mooted that postmodernism in the aesthetic realm — and I have argued that such postmodernism first surfaced in the Surrealism and more generally in the historical avant-garde of the 1920s — has been an important condition of formation of poststructuralism in the human sciences ( Huyssen 1984 ; see above , Chapter Three ) . |
| 6 | ‘ The old inter-club rivalries and jealousies have undoubtedly been banished this season and it will be good for the tournament and for English rugby if we can win it , ’ said coach Keith Richardson . |
| 7 | Chances were that the shooting had n't even been heard this side of the block . |
| 8 | They have always been a club with potential , and that potential appears to have been realised this season . |
| 9 | He had been christened that morning and died the same afternoon . |
| 10 | Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far . |
| 11 | He had been sacked last week , for the fourth time in a year , after a row with an unpleasant restaurant owner who had a fat pink face that looked about to snort , and chaste little feet on raised heels that he walked on as if they were trotters . |
| 12 | However , such a scheme would never wash with the public — who wants their water supplies to have been treated this way ? |
| 13 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 14 | The valley is the habitat of at least 21 species of the insect , which has been highlighted this month by a travelling exhibition . |
| 15 | The valley is the habitat of at least 21 species of the insect , which has been highlighted this month by a travelling exhibition . |
| 16 | It has been calculated that matter is at present being continually created at the rate of about 50,000 sun masses per second . |
| 17 | In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way . |
| 18 | ( Common safety standards for engineering products had been given final approval by the Council on June 14 . ) |
| 19 | The bill had been introduced on May 30 , 1991 , and had been given final House of Commons approval on Nov. 7 . |
| 20 | The activities of building societies and banks have been given prime consideration when assessing the appropriate definition of money and the problem of implementation of monetary control ( Bank of England , Dec. 1984 ) . |
| 21 | The only sane response to a complaint in some circumstances is a firm ‘ no ’ but it is important that the complaint is seen to have been given serious consideration and that those that have complained are not made to feel foolish . |
| 22 | One example of an hypothesis which has been given serious attention in recent years is the possible link between electromagnetic fields generated by high-voltage power lines or supply cables and ill health . |
| 23 | In the delicate balance between trust and accountability , an Area Secretary should be confident that her/his report will always be acknowledged on the basis of its having been given serious attention . |
| 24 | The Bill has been given extensive consideration in another place — a total of about 65 hours , including four days in Committee and three days on Report . |
| 25 | In this Special Reference Feature a chronology outlines the key events leading to unification and cross refers to articles in the monthly News Digest section where developments have been given extensive coverage . |
| 26 | There could hardly be a more serious accusation than these particular killings and they had been given renewed publicity by the secretary of state 's broadcast of only four weeks earlier . |
| 27 | Campaigners , calling for the convictions of Tony Poole and Gary Mills to be quashed have been given renewed hope after Gloucester MP Douglas French , met with Home Office officials . |
| 28 | Nurse Beverley Allitt who killed four babies has been given thirteen life sentences . |
| 29 | Nurse Beverley Allitt who killed four babies has been given thirteen life sentences . |
| 30 | Amid all the speculation about the future of our great Taoiseach , one issue has been given scant consideration : what is the quality of those who are being identified as his likely successors ? |