Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 Alternatively , employees who might have sued the transferor employer ( i.e. the government department ) directly on the Directive , because , say , they had been dismissed by the department in the course of a contracting out , are not time-barred , if they act before the 1993 Bill is enacted .
2 Seineldin , leader of an unsuccessful military coup against the previous government of President Raúl Alfonsín in December 1988 [ see p. 36394 ] , had been dismissed from the Army in October 1989 [ see p. 36972 ) .
3 To compensate a bit for the loss , Greatest Hits from that long and illustrious lineage — ‘ Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ’ and its copains — have been gathered for the nonce in a smaller space elsewhere in the museum .
4 Actually Pembo 's yellow card for that tackle has been withdrawn by the ref in question — the first time such a thing has happened .
5 Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) .
6 All night he had laboured in prayer and watching , then rising and sitting in his chair , as it were made new for the occasion , which had been placed before the chimney in his parlour , and in the midst of his chaplains , servants and officers who were praying for him , he expired as if sleeping , and without a groan yielded up his spirit most purely to his Creator . "
7 It will also be recollected that so many qualifications have been placed upon the decision in The Wagon Mound ( No. 1 ) that the concept of foreseeability is now applied in a very broad and liberal manner and there is unlikely to be much practical difference between an inquiry whether a consequence is foreseeable or natural .
8 All the children called in have been treated by the man in the past two months .
9 The Cathedrals of Paris , Laon , Reims , Amiens , Chartres have all been likened to the Parthenon in Athens in that they , collectively and individually , present the greatest contribution to the architecture of their time — Gothic — and became prototypes for churches all over Europe .
10 Iran found that recent improvements in the price of oil had been negated by the fall in the value of the dollar .
11 Scant attention has been given to the way in which man 's attitude to death feeds back into his life and so exerts an influence upon society .
12 While Baldwin 's succession to Bonar Law in 1923 has been almost overdiscussed , practically no attention has been given to the way in which he slipped in for the third time in 1935 .
13 Detailed consideration has been given to the way in which these different types of unit should be certificated .
14 He also broke an undertaking which had been given to the court in his name .
15 Despite all this , very little attention has been given to the issue in Great Britain as compared with other countries .
16 Whilst the information revolution has resulted in a great deal of attention being paid to the technology of information processing , unfortunately less attention has been given to the environment in which this processing takes place .
17 The Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ had himself been taught at the school in the eighteen-nineties — my father had been one of his contemporaries .
18 There , a little way along , a dragon had been painted on the wall in green .
19 That the Bill shall be laid upon the Table of the House by one of the Clerks in the Private Bill Office on the next meeting of the House after the day on which the Bill has been presented and , when so laid , shall be read the first and second time ( and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read ) and , having been amended by the Committee in the last Session , shall be ordered to lie upon the Table .
20 The income arising overseas with respect to the transfer of the asset would not be chargeable until the individual becomes ordinarily resident ( and resident ) in the United Kingdom and until such time as the Revenue can say that had the income been received by the individual in the United Kingdom it would have been chargeable to income tax .
21 We may also have been exposed to the virus in the past through blood transfusion or donor inseminations .
22 Paper pulp processes have also been modified following the discovery in the mid 1980s in the US of dioxins in the sludge and effluent from paper mills .
23 The traditional position has however now been modified by the decision in the G.C.H , Q. case .
24 Despite his withdrawal , Perot had spent some $500,000 per month maintaining a skeleton campaign structure which included 64 offices across the country , and his supporters had filed petitions ensuring that his name had been included on the ballot in every state .
25 It must be emphasised that the test is whether the clause was a fair and reasonable one to have been included in the contract in question ( see Josef Marton v Southwestern General Property ( 1982 ) , unreported ) .
26 This reticence extended even to the making of protests which was why , despite his feeble objections — he had been under no compulsion to go — he had been dragooned into the Navy in the first place .
27 Mrs Aquino knows the power of a campaign corpse , having herself been catapulted into the presidency in 1986 after touring the country with her husband 's body .
28 The demise of the picture-based magazines caused Doisneau real financial hardship which has only recently been alleviated by the boom in poster and postcard reproductions .
29 The ROK army had been occupied throughout the winter in containing guerrillas ; they were under the direction of North Korea and occasionally obtained arms supplies from the north , as with a recent arms shipment landed on the east coast , the bulk of which was confiscated before it could be used inland .
30 The vast majority of snowdrop bulbs on the world market have been picked from the wild in Turkey .
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