Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |
| 2 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 3 | In previous years her job has been filled by a preregistration house officer . |
| 4 | Now the cottage displays its original circular brick bread oven which , at Withern , had been hidden behind a Victorian cast-iron fireplace . |
| 5 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 6 | Ms Plouviez commented : ‘ The hoard must have been hidden by a wealthy family around 1,600 years ago . |
| 7 | Old Mahu , the gatekeeper who had slept on the night of Mertseger 's disappearance , had been dismissed without a pension , but that action had done nothing to mollify the general 's conscience . |
| 8 | Upton won their first game since the opening day of the season when they routed Winnington Park for 64 the season 's lowest score with groundsman Alex Kegg taking 4–18 after Upton had been dismissed for a modest 128 . |
| 9 | And yet that part of the interview could have been dismissed with a laugh in five seconds . |
| 10 | Saturday was sunny and bright , and any claim that the match would be settled by tomorrow evening would have been dismissed with a scornful cackle . |
| 11 | Having been dismissed as a kitchen maid , she harnesses her poetry to her teapot . |
| 12 | Complaints about the Middlesbrough mosque and procedures for funerals held there have been dismissed as a ‘ complete misunderstanding ’ by Muslim community leaders . |
| 13 | Law and Order Minister Hernus Kriel announced on Aug. 27 that 13 police generals had been dismissed in a reorganization of the SAP . |
| 14 | The book had been published in March 1990 , and the case against Hamid had previously been dismissed by a civil court in May 1991 . |
| 15 | Appeal lost AN APPEAL against a decision by Ynys Mn Borough Council to refuse planning permission for the change of use of a building at Brackendene , Llanfair NB , to a riding school has been dismissed by a Welsh Office inspector . |
| 16 | AN APPEAL against a decision by Ynys Mn Borough Council to refuse planning permission for the change of use of a building at Brackendene , Llanfair NB to a riding school has been dismissed by a Welsh Office inspector . |
| 17 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
| 18 | ( In practice , the differences are not that great : " presidential wars " have been waged without a congressional declaration of war , while in Britain a government taking military action abroad will seek the consent of Parliament . ) |
| 19 | The driver , Patsy Gillespie , who was also killed , was described by the IRA as a " collaborator " for having carried out construction work for the security forces , and had been coerced into a similar operation previously at the Fort George Army base in the city . |
| 20 | It has also been examined as a potential animal feed . |
| 21 | The reliability and clinical applications of computerised image analysis measurement of bowel uptake of Tc-99m HMPAO labelled leucocytes has been examined as a measure of disease activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 22 | The purpose of an audit mark or stamp on clients ' documents is twofold : it provides evidence that the document has been examined for a particular purpose ( which should be clear from the audit file ) ; and it helps to avoid the document 's being re-presented as support for a duplicate entry . |
| 23 | They are clearly a very cost–effective form of risk assessment ; the situation will have been examined at a level of detail and expertise not usually available to individual companies . |
| 24 | The boy had been examined by a surgeon , Thomas Chapman , who found numerous wheals , bruises and lacerations , and his report to the guardians led to proceedings being taken against the tailor before the County magistrates ; he was convicted and fined £5 . |
| 25 | That 's been examined by a gunsmith who says the gun was real . |
| 26 | That 's been examined by a gunsmith who says the gun was real . |
| 27 | Captain Bob Sclater , the Orkney island 's harbours director , said attempts to refloat the ship would stop until she had been examined by a team of salvage specialists . |
| 28 | Det Sgt Pat Lewis , of the child protection team , confirmed she had been examined by a doctor and added : ‘ We will be speaking to her in the morning . |
| 29 | The sensitivity of platelets from diabetic subjects to the antiaggregatory effects of prostacyclin has been examined in a cross-sectional study using the electronic whole blood platelet aggregometer ( Jones et al , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | As has already been indicated , the planning processes of each company had previously been examined in a research study carried out at the London Business School . |