Example sentences of "[noun prp] have be [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beryl has been recorded in micaceous pegmatites of the Moine schists in north-west Scotland ( Berridge , 1969 ) . |
| 2 | According to reports in some of the more scurrilous publications , the young American was deeply turned off by this close encounter with the ‘ world 's sexiest female ’ as Kylie has been voted in many teen surveys . |
| 3 | On some days the top of Pea Hill has been bathed in brilliant sunshine , while the valley of the River Wear ahead has been awash in a sea of grey , with tentacles of fog creeping outwards along hedges and gulleys into fields . |
| 4 | Lochranza has been ignored in recent years since the only crossing to Arran is now at Brodick . |
| 5 | With the same courage she showed in the playground , Howey has been competing in senior international events since the age of 15 , winning the world and European junior championships as well as senior bronze and silver medals at world and European level . |
| 6 | I can certainly agree with my hon. Friend — that incident was most regrettable , particularly in light of the fact that the human rights record of Indonesia had been improving in recent years . |
| 7 | Throughout his trials with the Sex Pistols , Richard Branson had been engaged in another , even more delicate negotiation , one which promised , at last , to provide the antidote to the enduring unhappiness over his broken marriage . |
| 8 | While Edward had been preoccupied in northern France , the English position in Aquitaine had deteriorated . |
| 9 | IF DAVID HOCKNEY had been born in 1837 instead of 1937 , he would have become an Olympian rather than a Californian . |
| 10 | ‘ No , of course there has n't , I 'd have known if Dana had been hurt in any way . |
| 11 | According to Jordanian officials Hafez had been recruited in early 1990 during a training course in Germany when he was approached by a female agent for Mossad ( the Israeli intelligence service ) posing as a US civilian . |
| 12 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 13 | The Fishing Temple at Sharpham in Devon has been let in this way for many years . |
| 14 | The Wales-based artist Alex Beleschenko has been working in recent years on large-scale architectural commissions for stained glass . |
| 15 | Members : 35 countries from northern , central and southern America and the Caribbean ; Canada formally joined the organization in January 1990 ; Belize and Guyana were admitted in January 1991 ; Cuba had been suspended in 1962 . |
| 16 | COMECON had been created in 1949 at Stalin 's instigation in an effort to co-ordinate the development of East European economies in the post-war period , without having resource to the Marshall Aid Plan being promoted by the United States . |
| 17 | The newest building in the centre of Qara Tappah had been built in 1934 . |
| 18 | After the July 1990 elections the state structure was changed to re-establish a standing parliament ( the Little Hural had been abolished in 1950 ) . |
| 19 | As Bishop Brinton said , it had been to restore a rightful heir to his kingdom and to defeat tyranny that the campaign in northern Spain had been fought in 1367 . |
| 20 | Russia had been mauled in 1915 and forced into general retreat , but she had not been destroyed . |
| 21 | It was the first time that 36-year-old Gilbey had been seen in public since being named as the man on the phone in the love-tapes scandal . |
| 22 | England had been swamped in recent years by publications of every sort on birds , and Gould was not the only one to feel the pressure of increasing competition . |
| 23 | ‘ It is clear that Professor Wybran has been assassinated in cold blood because he was a Jew , ’ it said . |
| 24 | The early essay on Levinas , dating from 1964 , shows the extent to which Derrida has been implicated in such questions from the first — though , contra Norris , he has always shown that the conditions of ‘ writing ’ that make ethics possible also makes them impossible . |
| 25 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman will be aware that since its inception the SDA has been investing in this way throughout Scotland and in companies . |
| 26 | Would Mr Amos have been pilloried in this way if the other person had been a female ? |
| 27 | Ernest had been killed in 1940 in an aircraft accident when on duty as a Drogue Operator . |
| 28 | The house in Mouncy Street had been known in this casual society as a place to go . |
| 29 | Rodolfo Salas , a leading member of the illegal Communist Party of the Philippines-Marxist Leninist , on May 14 was convicted of rebellion and sentenced to six years ' and a day in prison ; Salas had been arrested in 1986 [ see p. 34872 ] . |
| 30 | The first glass works in south Yorkshire had been erected in 1632 at Glasshouse Green , Wentworth , on the estate of Sir Thomas Wentworth , the great Earl of Strafford , but it had ceased production before the Civil War . |