Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the beginning of his term as General Secretary , Brezhnev had been seen as a leader pursuing the art of the possible but by the end of his life , his leadership was seen , more pointedly , as the avoidance of the necessary . |
| 32 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |
| 33 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 34 | For example , there was the Australian edition of the racy Sunday Sport which claimed that Kylie had been mauled by a killer shark while skin diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 35 | Previously , Mr Ntoni-Nzinga had been studying for a doctorate in theology and anthropology in Manchester , UK . |
| 36 | The detective would n't be expecting two of them and , when Dana had been appearing as a model in London , Claudia would have been in Solihull . |
| 37 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
| 38 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 39 | Vice-captain Geoff Marsh , Bruce Reid , Merv Hughes , Peter Taylor and Steve Waugh have all been omitted from the party of 13 while uncapped batsman Damien Martyn and the Victoria and former Sussex all-rounder Tony Dodemaide have been included in a new-look team , along with spinners Shane Warne and Greg Matthews . |
| 40 | French government plans to build a road tunnel through the Pyrenees have been blocked by a court ruling . |
| 41 | Off-road routes for mountain bikes on the Isle of Weight have been outlined in a new series of guides , Byways and Bridleways by Mountain Bike . |
| 42 | Ten holidaymakers from Canada and the United States have been killed in a coach crash on the M-Two in Kent . |
| 43 | The metamorphic gneisses throughout the Hebrides have been eroded to a gentle , undulating landscape as can be seen in central Lewis . |
| 44 | The Cat Nab Clog Dancers from Saltburn have been presented with a large box of red non-wrinkle tights following their appeal on Esther Rantzen 's That 's Life programme . |
| 45 | Northern Ireland has been described as a society under siege , a society where there is a problem for every solution ! |
| 46 | Eurodesk Scotland has been established as a two-way contact point between Brussels and Scottish authorities and agencies . |
| 47 | Now the estate is in the hands of Dr Douglas Wise and Coldingham Loch has been developed into a very attractive fishery . |
| 48 | Lynne Deeley has been confined to a wheelchair since she was mown down by her own car in April this year . |
| 49 | An area the size of Berkshire , Buckinghamshire , Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire has been put in a concrete overcoat . |
| 50 | Many of his battle-weary colleagues , three years later , may regard his enthusiasm with some cynicism but most would agree with him that the nature of management in the NHS has been transformed in a relatively short space of time . |
| 51 | Consequently throughout its existence the NHS has been complemented by a residual system of private provision . |
| 52 | Since the mid-1960s , the agricultural sector in Chile has been transformed through a combination of structural reforms and changes in economic policy . |
| 53 | The backstreet site in the middle of Peterborough has been obliterated by a glass and concrete shopping centre . |
| 54 | Barnes has been suffering from a hamstring strain , but he was able to train on Thursday and yesterday , and Robson had expected him to be fit for Chorzow , where a point will be enough to take England to Italy as winners of Group Two . |
| 55 | But I heard ‘ Pamella Bordes has been discovered by a Sun reporter on the island of Bali ’ and I said , My God , now they know where I am , they 'll come down and get me . |
| 56 | The example of Theravada Buddhism is the most important because it has explicitly taught that there is no Creator God , yet Buddha has been turned into a father-like figure in popular devotion against the best intentions of the monks . |
| 57 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 58 | Anicius Saturninus at Irchester has been described as a remount officer securing new horses for the army , while O. Cordius Candidus at Dover may have been connected with the transport of horses across the Channel . |
| 59 | Thomas Rennie has been released from a twenty one month jail sentence , imposed last year , after he abducted his pregnant ex-girlfriend Marita Brown and her father in law Richard Loren from their home in Gloucestershire . |
| 60 | Marilyn has been licensed at a special service at St John 's Church there , effectively joining the ministry team in the parish of Egremont . |