Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Tirgu Mures , the HDUR candidate for mayor had been deemed ineligible to stand by a local court ; the party then supported an independent candidate , who won the election but then resigned after revelations that his nomination papers were irregular . |
| 2 | Bahrain and Qatar were both members of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) , and reports emerged on July 29 that a series of GCC ministerial meetings scheduled for July had been postponed due to " rising tension " between the two countries . |
| 3 | Taylor pointed out that pride and eagerness to play for England had been restored these past two games . |
| 4 | Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far . |
| 5 | I am not aware of the point that the hon. Gentleman raises but , as he knows , a tremendous amount of support has been made available through the Home Office and other sources to assist members of the ethnic minorities in this country . |
| 6 | The new ministers soon find that there is remarkably little room for manoeuvre , and that most of the quick and easy panaceas to the intractable problems of Defence have been tried many times before . |
| 7 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 8 | The office of President had been left vacant since Ayliffe 's retirement . |
| 9 | Rev Daniel Ntoni-Nzinga of Angola has been appointed International Coordinator of the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa . |
| 10 | The slabs of rock have been worn smooth like well-used soap . |
| 11 | ‘ The persistent concern to increase councillor calibre through reorganization ’ , he says , ‘ makes it equally clear that the essential object of reorganization has been to make local government more functional for dominant interests , by restructuring it so as to facilitate their direct control of its expenditure and interventions ’ ( 1979 , p. 245 ) . |
| 12 | By far the most important problem that has been selected as providing the push into the invention of crime has been thwarted conventional ambitions — Merton 's ( 1938 ) ‘ anomie ’ theory and the ‘ delinquent subculture ’ theories of Cohen ( 1955 ) and Cloward and Ohlin ( 1960 ) being the most influential examples . |
| 13 | An astonishing repair of sorts had been effected some time in the last century : a young fruit tree was nailed vertically to the back of the panel and held in place with iron bands . |
| 14 | Both sets of data have been normalised such that the lowest value is equal to 1 . |
| 15 | Trial reintroductions of dormice have been made possible by the imaginative captive-breeding programmes of Dot Heaton at Windsor Safari Park . |
| 16 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 17 | The process of management and the functions of management have been analysed many times in various ways by different writers , who have taken the view that : |
| 18 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 19 | ‘ A piece of wood had been driven clean through the heart , apparently after death . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Hundreds of companies have been duped this way , ’ said a detective with the Northumbria Fraud Squad , which is investigating the Brandmakers ' case . |
| 21 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 22 | Some writers have argued that the problem of overload has been made worse by the centralization of government decision-making . |
| 23 | A further gift of £1000 has been received this year for this purpose . |
| 24 | In ( b ) to date only certain shapes of inclusion have been considered such as spheres , ellipsoids , rods and discs . |
| 25 | Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater aid that the Department of Transport had been kept abreast of developments . |
| 26 | The Royal Mail , which for a number of years has been transporting first-class mail overnight by air , totally reorganised its operation at the end of September . |
| 27 | The Marquess of Blandford has been fined one thousand pounds for not paying taxi fares . |
| 28 | The reaction of governments has been to resist such initiatives and view them as threats . |
| 29 | Now that the threat of interdict had been made public Henry began to negotiate more seriously . |
| 30 | Government concerns that the 1988 Licensing Act would encourage greater consumption of alcohol have been proved unfounded . |