Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already huge controversy has been provoked by some researchers ' attempts to claim effective ownership of human genes through patenting and by a proposal to set up a UK national database of ‘ DNA fingerprints ’ to enable the rapid identification and capture of violent criminals . |
| 2 | For example , in the past two years many applications have been made against local authorities ' handling of assessment and service delivery for children with special educational needs . |
| 3 | Sánchez had in August 1989 been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for spreading false information " detrimental to international peace " to foreign journalists following the July trial and execution of senior army officers for drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] . |
| 4 | Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] . |
| 5 | In February 1992 she was reported to have been sentenced to 5 years ' imprisonment . |
| 6 | Vic Williams : a 28-year-old soldier in the British Army 's Royal Artillery , he has been sentenced to 14 months ' imprisonment for desertion and ‘ conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline |
| 7 | His brother , Gene Gotti , had been sentenced to 50 years ' imprisonment on July 7 , 1989 , after being found guilty of running a multimillion-dollar drugs ring . |
| 8 | Bond had in May 1992 been sentenced to 2 years ' imprisonment [ see p. 38917 ] after being convicted on the same charge , but was released in August after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial [ see p. 39056 ] . |
| 9 | The four had each been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on 10 July 1991 for holding a ‘ seditious ’ meeting in a Nairobi bar . |
| 10 | Throughout his evidence , Price implicated the applicant ( whom he identified from a photograph ) in those dealings as the man who had informed him of the consignment of cannabis in Sweden , and had asked him and a man named Ryan ( who had also been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment ) to deliver it to customers in Sweden . |
| 11 | The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 12 | Earlier in August another UK national had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on similar charges , in that case of entering from Kuwait [ see p. 39069 ] . |
| 13 | He had been sentenced to 25 years ' imprisonment in March 1961 . |
| 14 | The prisoner who died in May [ ibid. ] was José Manuel Sevillano Martín , who had been sentenced to 24 years ' imprisonment in 1986 on a number of charges including robbery with menaces , membership of an illegal armed group and illegal possession of arms . |
| 15 | George Goodall arrived in 1955 as assistant experimental officer with just four A-levels to his credit , his progress to further education having been interrupted by two years ' National Service . |
| 16 | The game has been adjourned after six hours ' play with Short sealing the 61st move in an envelope . |
| 17 | ( b ) Pay over to the Inland Revenue each month all amounts that should have been deducted from uncertified sub-contractors ' payments . |
| 18 | Lapper had certainly been guilty of conceit ( a wrought iron gate had been ordered with senior managers ' initials worked into it ) , but the sentence was interpreted as a politically motivated attack on wastrel public corporations , and was widely felt to be unjust . |