Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] been [vb pp] [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 | The office of President had been left vacant since Ayliffe 's retirement . |
| 8 | Rev Daniel Ntoni-Nzinga of Angola has been appointed International Coordinator of the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa . |
| 9 | The slabs of rock have been worn smooth like well-used soap . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Both sets of data have been normalised such that the lowest value is equal to 1 . |
| 13 | Trial reintroductions of dormice have been made possible by the imaginative captive-breeding programmes of Dot Heaton at Windsor Safari Park . |
| 14 | 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 : |
| 15 | ‘ A piece of wood had been driven clean through the heart , apparently after death . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Hundreds of companies have been duped this way , ’ said a detective with the Northumbria Fraud Squad , which is investigating the Brandmakers ' case . |
| 17 | Some writers have argued that the problem of overload has been made worse by the centralization of government decision-making . |
| 18 | A further gift of £1000 has been received this year for this purpose . |
| 19 | In ( b ) to date only certain shapes of inclusion have been considered such as spheres , ellipsoids , rods and discs . |
| 20 | Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater aid that the Department of Transport had been kept abreast of developments . |
| 21 | The Marquess of Blandford has been fined one thousand pounds for not paying taxi fares . |
| 22 | Now that the threat of interdict had been made public Henry began to negotiate more seriously . |
| 23 | Government concerns that the 1988 Licensing Act would encourage greater consumption of alcohol have been proved unfounded . |
| 24 | Hundreds of people have been found near to starvation at the Serb-run Omarska detention camp in Bosnia at the centre of allegations of executions and other atrocities . |
| 25 | THOUSANDS of people have been offered free passage out of war-torn Sarajevo . |
| 26 | In addition since that time a host of legislation has been passed separate from the companies acts which provides rights for each of the parties involved . |
| 27 | In the US , farmers work the soil so hard that around five billion tonnes are blown or washed away annually and an area twice the size of California has been rendered unproductive . |
| 28 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 29 | We must check to see whether the lady 's slipper survived the winter — only six species of orchids have been seen this year . |
| 30 | The Court ruled on April 24 that the government was entitled to dismiss up to 600,000 former East German civil servants who at the time of unification had been given temporary contracts rather than being made redundant . |