Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [been] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 2 | After such endorsements from a man who , despite being a migrant from the Mid-West has been transformed instinctively into a prime example of Homo Pacificus , it would have been a foolish and almost unpatriotic American who professed otherwise . |
| 3 | At the same time , Czechoslovakia has been hit hard by the Warsaw Pact arms reductions . |
| 4 | The prison population at Pentonville has been cut sharply in recent years , from more than 1,000 to about 600 , and most inmates now have their own cells . |
| 5 | The relationship between States directly injured by a violation of international law and other States has been explored further by the International Law Commission in its work on State Responsibility . |
| 6 | The friendship between Branson and Oldfield had been based initially on dependence and protectiveness — mutual need , and mutual gratitude . |
| 7 | He died in 1557 , and was buried in St Margaret 's churchyard on 9 August ; his first wife Ann had been interred there on 9 December 1552 , and he was survived by his second wife Ellen . |
| 8 | The two men on either side of the Renault had been punched backwards by the impact of the bullets . |
| 9 | The development of psychiatric services in Scotland has been influenced greatly by the sites chosen for the Victorian asylums . |
| 10 | Television celebrity , Leslie Crowther has been allowed home from hospital , four months after his car crashed off a motorway . |
| 11 | Brazil has been boosted both by David Byrne , whose new Latin big band made such an impression here last week , and the dance hit , Lambada , by Kaoma , which sold over a million and a half copies in France and became the best-selling European single of the year . |
| 12 | The involvement of several amino-acid receptor subtypes in the induction of LTP has been determined largely by the use of antagonists and is described in Box 2 . |
| 13 | As she hung the waterproofs in the locker she remembered with vivid clarity how his gaze had met hers after Giles had been led away by the stewards . |
| 14 | Washington had been kept completely in the dark over the invasion which , to make matters worse , coincided with the suppression of the Hungarian rising by Soviet tanks . |
| 15 | Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton . |
| 16 | By mid December the main flow of the Tara had been diverted away from the base of the dam . |
| 17 | The works of Metzinger , Gleizes and Le Fauconnier had been hung together by chance at the Salon d'Automne of 1910 , but the common characteristics which the critics saw in their styles , and the excitement expressed by the poets and authors at Mercereau 's and at the Closerie des Lilas over the possibilities of a new school of painting , seem to have made the painters aware of each other ; Apollinaire and Salmon in particular , although both were in many ways insensitive to painting , realized that Picasso 's latest style contained the elements of a new art , and felt that the work of several other painters was evolving in a similar direction . |
| 18 | Fergus had been knocked backwards by the Lad 's spring ; he was lying on his back on the littered table , and the Lad was crouching over him , his eyes enormous , his face intent . |
| 19 | Hu Jiwei had been recalled earlier by the Sichuan provincial people 's congress for his " illegal role in the turmoil " of May and June 1989 when he had attempted to call an emergency meeting of the NPC Standing Committee . |
| 20 | From the old team , David Mellor and Gillian Shephard have been wafted away on promotion , and the election left two more empty saddles in the Treasury corral . |
| 21 | Cobol has been added specifically for Data General Corp AViiON , HP 9000/700 , IBM Corp RS/6000 and Sparcsystem users , and Fortran for RS/6000 users . |
| 22 | The direct tram service between Fleetwood and Blackpool has been maintained continuously since 1898 , with the single exception of winter 1963/4 when buses ran between Blackpool and Cleveleys . |
| 23 | Such a financial obstacle would send most people looking for an easier option , but Dreamflight has been helped enormously in recent years by Spar supermarkets who have raised £350,000 . |
| 24 | Please note that the autumn QT Day has been brought forward to September to coincide with the beginning of the Academic Year Date : — 23 September 1989 — |
| 25 | A limited view of the role of the Commons has been put forward by Mr Henry Fairlie in his book The Life of Politics . |
| 26 | Yet despite its breakneck evolution , Medeva has been put together in pursuit of a definite strategic plan , and it looks as though the pharmaceutical world will become very familiar with it in years to come . |
| 27 | A case in point is Jochen Kowalski , a German singer whose series of CD recordings for Capriccio has been capped recently with a performance of Schumann 's song cycle , ‘ A Poet 's Love ’ ( Capriccio CD 10 359 ) . |
| 28 | Grant having been offered specifically towards a year 's programme within the plan for development , clearly it is necessary that a reasonably full report should be provided to explain progress , or the lack of it , and to illustrate particular successes or problems . |
| 29 | Oh yes , Googol had been left safely in a locked room once ; and he had been taken by surprise … |
| 30 | John van Loon had been sent home from work for wearing a kaftan and he laughed about it . |