Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier funding difficulties [ see p. 37583 ] , had been eased in December 1990 with the successful raising of over £560,000,000 through a rights issue in Paris and London . |
| 2 | The new government was sworn in on Feb. 27 and contained only three new members , Odd Engstrom as Deputy Prime Minister ( a post which had not hitherto been filled under Carlsson ) , Allan Larsson as Finance Minister , and Eric Asbrink who entered the Cabinet as Deputy Finance Minister . |
| 3 | Another key job , Features Editor — or Assistant Editor ( Features ) in NoS -speak — had been filled by Polly Pattullo , who had served more years than she cares to remember on the Observer colour supplement before wilting under its increasing consumer bias . |
| 4 | The gap has been filled by Bill Rear 's excellent volume . |
| 5 | The post , in the Lending Services Division , has been filled by Mrs Jill McBride , BA , ALA , who comes to NLS from East Lothian District Council 's library service where she was Bibliographic Services Librarian . |
| 6 | The new post of Customer Services Officer in Lending Services has been filled by Mrs Jill McBride . |
| 7 | Their positions have now been filled by Mr Namadra Singh and Mr Giljod Singh , neither of whom , surprisingly , are related to the chairman . |
| 8 | His role as director of Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems has been filled by Tom Jarosh , formerly vice president in the company 's General Sector Division . |
| 9 | For decades his complete diaries have been hidden in K-G-B files in Moscow — now they 're about to be serialised in the Sunday Times . |
| 10 | They had reached the grave , and Ace obediently turned to face the crowd , so that they could n't see her freed hands , which had previously been hidden by Petion 's body . |
| 11 | According to da Motta Veiga , he had been dismissed on Oct. 19 [ see p. 37773 ] for resisting pressure from Faria [ see also above ] to lend US$20,000,000 and to supply $40,000,000 worth of oil to the Voe Canhedo business group , which owned a 48 per cent stake in the newly privatized VASP airline formerly controlled by the state of Sao Paulo [ see p. 37710 ] . |
| 12 | Massive speculation immediately arose over his death , particularly in the light of recent allegations that Maxwell and a senior Daily Mirror journalist , Nick Davies , had both had involvement with the Israeli secret intelligence service Mossad ; Davies had been dismissed on Oct. 29 on the grounds that he had lied in relation to a meeting which he was said to have had in 1985 with a United States arms dealer . |
| 13 | Among changes to the Council of State Secretaries [ see p. 38994 for previous government changes ] Mohammed Lamin Kamara became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , replacing Ahmed Ramadan — Dumbuya who had been dismissed on Oct. 30 , . |
| 14 | Richard H. Truly who had been dismissed on Feb. 13 . |
| 15 | Justice Minister Abdehamid Mahi-Bahi was reported to have been dismissed on Nov. 14 by the President of the High Committee of State , Ali Kafi , and replaced by Mohamed Teguia , President of the Supreme Court . |
| 16 | Hanniah Lungu , hitherto Air Force Commander , was appointed Minister of Defence , succeeding Frederick Hapunda , who advocated a pluralist democracy and who had been dismissed on June 7 , officially for being " ineffective " in carrying out his duties . |
| 17 | Yoma 's brother Emir Yoma , a presidential aide , had also been dismissed in January after he was implicated in corruption charges . |
| 18 | Mihai Lupoi , who had been dismissed in February 1990 as Minister of Tourism in the provisional NSF government [ see p. 37251 ] , applied for political asylum in Switzerland on July 5 . |
| 19 | Charges of human rights abuses brought against Leigh and 39 other officers had been dismissed in August 1986 when they invoked a 1978 amnesty law [ see p. 34988 ] . |
| 20 | The following day the Supreme Soviet 's Presidium appointed as acting RIB chair the former chair of the USSR State Bank , Viktor Gerashchenko , who had been dismissed in August 1991 for alleged complicity in the coup . |
| 21 | The Smith family are everywhere , of course , so it is no surprise that over the years more Smiths have been dismissed by Smiths in Test cricket than any other self-destructing name . |
| 22 | Zhang Taiheng , who had been dismissed by Yang Baibing as Chengdu MR commander in late 1991 . |
| 23 | A case could be made for such a ritual being enshrined in the legend of Lady Godiva of Coventry , riding through the city on a white horse ( fig. 13.1 ) , though this idea has been dismissed by Hilda Ellis Davison in her otherwise full and admirable account of the legend . |
| 24 | Particularly when it was discovered — as it would be — that she was the mother of a bastard child , the daughter of a man who had left Frizingley heavily in debt , and had already been dismissed by Miss Ernestine Baker for her loose behaviour in a public street . |
| 25 | Bakatin , although he had been dismissed by Gorbachev as Interior Minister in December 1990 as a result of conservative pressure , was seen as the Soviet President 's candidate whose role was to win enough votes to deny Yeltsin a first round victory . |
| 26 | The humiliating financial dependence on his parents , a fact of life ever since he had been dismissed from Goupil 's , was being gradually shifted on to Theo , who would soon find himself shouldering the whole burden . |
| 27 | Just over a year after he had been dismissed from Oscott ( 1888 ) , Rolfe entered Scots College , Rome , in December 1889 . |
| 28 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 29 | And now the production has been re-staged by Stephen Medcalf for the Glyndebourne tour with a new cast ( some of the occupants of minor roles in the festival have been promoted : Alison Hagley 's Barbarina is now Susanna ) , a different orchestra , the London Sinfonietta , and a new conductor , Sir Peter Maxwell Davies . |
| 30 | The estate 's legal battles have been waged by Gerard Basquiat , the artist 's father , and the attorney Michael Ward Stout . |