Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hall criticizes the flimsy evidence on which , for example , Newton has been depicted as a member of an active alchemical coterie at Cambridge , supposedly including Barrow , the Lucasian professor whom he was to succeed , and Henry More , the Platonist philosopher . |
| 2 | Van Der Meulen has been characterised as a good explorer rather than as a great one . |
| 3 | Once an imposing villa , the Roma has been converted into a charming little hotel . |
| 4 | The Eastern Bloc has been transformed into a gigantic Enterprise Zone for western capitalists eager to reap the benefits of suppressed consumerism . |
| 5 | The news that Hanson may be preparing to bid for ICI has been met by a united front on the ICI board . |
| 6 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 7 | 1.25:ALTHOUGH she has form over three miles , Ketti has been running like a non stayer at that trip this year . |
| 8 | In gaining the title university , Napier has been recognised as a leader in higher education . |
| 9 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 10 | A girl aged nine from Middlesbrough has been discharged from a Sussex hospital after recovering from injuries she received in a road accident . |
| 11 | Some club members say that problems have arisen because power at Rugby has been restricted to a small executive committee , and major constitutional changes at the club now seem likely at the annual meeting in June . |
| 12 | Romania has been hit by a major tragedy with hundreds of young children HIV infected through hazardous medical or nursing treatments . |
| 13 | ‘ Michael Stein has been attacked by a guest . ’ |
| 14 | The crystal structure of CypA has been solved as a complex with a peptidyl-prolyl isomerase ( PPIase ) -substrate analogue tetrapeptide and in an uncomplexed form . |
| 15 | TENNIS legend Bjorn Borg has been served with a £21,000 a month maintenance claim to pay for his estranged wife 's household staff . |
| 16 | Such underdrawing has now provided a significantly more accurate way of dating the famous palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and El Castillo , Spain , and Niaux in the French Pyrenees has been developed by a team of French and Spanish scientists . |
| 17 | Another Dublin player Keith Barr has been suspended for a month — he too was sent off in the National League . |
| 18 | On the other hand Galadriel has been expelled from a kind of Heaven , the Deathless land of Valinor , and has been forbidden to return . |
| 19 | Mr Baughan has been confined to a wheelchair for 16 years . |
| 20 | Nineteen members of the University Lecturers Association picketed the School of Food and Consumer Studies at Robert Gordon University , where Mrs Falconer has been subjected to a redundancy dilemma . |
| 21 | ANDF has been positioned as a C-oriented technology in its initial guise , although is n't a language-specific , says Praxis . |
| 22 | One of the French-based Skyraiders has been purchased by a well-known warbird operation based at Duxford . |
| 23 | He underwent knee surgery recently and Souness insists that although Wright has been linked with a transfer to Sheffield Wednesday he is n't about to Kop a move . |
| 24 | Antioch in Syria has been suggested as a likely place . |
| 25 | In 1935 Uruguay acceded to Brazilian pressure to break links with Moscow because of allegations , apparently not unfounded , that the Soviet trading office in Montevideo had been used as a conduit for funds to the Brazilian insurgents . |
| 26 | When Ceauşescu 's chief intelligence adviser , Ion Pacepa , defected to the United States in 1978 , he claimed that Ceauşescu had been engaged in a long-term strategic plan codenamed ‘ Red Horizon ’ . |
| 27 | Nevertheless the Trotskyists themselves split , on the issue of whether or not to co-operate with the ICP , and , just as the VNQDD had been destroyed as a competitor with the Communist Party by French repression after Yen-Bay , so the French colonial government , shortly after war had begun in 1939 , rounded up virtually the entire leadership of the Trotskyist International Communist League , as it was then called : a coup from which the movement never recovered . |
| 28 | A joint communiqué issued on May 19 said that the talks between Jiang and Gorbachev had been held in a " friendly , frank and businesslike atmosphere " and had covered " the whole range of Soviet-Chinese relations " . |
| 29 | This incident was some time after the Red Sand Towers had been used as a pirate radio station ( Radio 390 ) . |
| 30 | During the war , ABPC had been confined to a small studio at Welwyn , producing low-budget crime melodramas . |