Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their heads had been eased into the yoke , and they were now locked into the system . |
| 2 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 3 | The water shortage faced by thousands of refugees in Jordan has been eased with the help of the Oxford based charity Oxfam . |
| 4 | Oldham 's task at Gateshead may have been eased by the Tynesiders ' dismissal earlier this week of their American guard , Darryl Thomas . |
| 5 | Apart from the language barrier , which has been eased by the general acceptance of English everywhere except in France , British and Continental military staffs have practically no shared operational experience or traditions . |
| 6 | Financial insecurity , once the big driving force , has been eased by the salary , perks and pension of the commissionership , according to his friends . |
| 7 | Since 1982 , the burden of CGT has been eased by the welcome introduction of index-linking . |
| 8 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 9 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 10 | The remains of water-mills have been consistently removed ; the weirs which hold up river levels have been dismantled ; and mill-ponds and mill-races have been filled with the dredgings . |
| 11 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 12 | I reflected that I was not sure if I had ever been filled with the Holy Spirit , let alone spoken the word of God boldly . |
| 13 | Before Nathan entered , her mind had been filled with the prospect of playing Lady Macbeth at last , and to all appearance she might still have been thinking of nothing but that . |
| 14 | And if we 've been filled with the Holy Spirit , then we should have the evidence to go with it . |
| 15 | Gradually , and despite the readiness with which the ranks of the baseej had been filled from the towns and villages , a sense of war-weariness was apparent in Iran ; in 1984 there were even newspaper reports of a loss of the will to fight in the ranks . |
| 16 | A hoard at Ardnave may have been hidden at the time of the Civil War , between 1638 and 1650 and certainly after 1640 . |
| 17 | In any case , if there was an innocent explanation of the existence of the photograph , why had it been hidden at the bottom of the drawer ? |
| 18 | Det Supt Ron Coutts , heading the investigation , said the devices found in the evening had been hidden outwith the areas searched in the morning . |
| 19 | His face had been hidden in the darkness , yet she thought she would recognise him if they met again . |
| 20 | It had been hidden by the mother , a 16-year-old pupil who kept her pregnancy secret even from her parents . |
| 21 | It 's so persuasively and convincingly argued — especially for those of us most happy to be convinced — that it 's a trifle dampening to be reminded that these are ‘ image patterns whose sexual significance may have been hidden from the poet on a conscious level … . |
| 22 | If you end the contract for any reason during the trial period , you will be treated as having been dismissed on the date when your original job ended . |
| 23 | The middle-aged married couple who had been caretakers before him had been dismissed on the spot for gross drunkenness . |
| 24 | More than one appeal concerned solely with the scale rather than the principle of whether there should be any development , has been dismissed on the grounds that the site was unsuitable for any development at all . |
| 25 | Dogan , a nephew of the President and a leading conservative in the ruling Motherland Party ( ANAP ) , was described by official sources as having been dismissed on the President 's orders " apparently over a rift in domestic politics " . |
| 26 | Earlier in the season the prospect of a French Championship final between Toulon and Biarritz would have been dismissed with the words : C'est fou ! |
| 27 | A graduate of Leland , Stanford and Oxford universities , he was a sharp , intelligent man from Detroit , Michigan , who has all too often been dismissed as the maker of low-budget movies which exploited a particular mood or event in time , heavily criticized for their voyeurism . |
| 28 | The congress also elected as editor-in-chief of the BCP daily newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo Stefan Prodev , a reformist who in November 1988 had been dismissed as the editor of the newspaper Narodna Kultura for his association with the unofficial Club for the Support of Glasnost and Perestroika in Bulgaria [ see p. 36771 ] . |
| 29 | Most of these signed items had been dismissed as the work of mere copyists of Classical and Hellenistic creations , and even the unusual decorative and free-standing sculpture unearthed in the short-lived excavations undertaken at Aphrodisias itself in 1904-5 ( by Paul Gaudin ) and in 1937 ( by Giulio Jacopi ) failed to excite many experts . |
| 30 | Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy announced on Oct. 16 that the Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff and the Commander of the Development Forces of the army had been dismissed following the late delivery of fuel to the capital . |