Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ten holidaymakers from Canada and the United States have been killed in a coach crash on the M-Two in Kent . |
| 9 | An area the size of Berkshire , Buckinghamshire , Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire has been put in a concrete overcoat . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mrs Meikle said just two days ago Graham had been seen in a local pub . |
| 12 | I remember , when I was writing the biography of George Sand , I read in all her biographies that her grandmother had married a certain Comte de Horne , an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; that the marriage had not been consummated and that the Comte de Horne had been killed in a duel . |
| 13 | Long before Sartre developed his own form of Marxist-Hegelian history , Bachelard had been working in a critical relation to Hegelian historicism . |
| 14 | The Duce had been reduced in a stroke from Head of State to a more or less insignificant cavaliere ( a commonplace title in Italy ) . |
| 15 | By now , many readers may be wondering why the story of Glencoe has been related in a miscellany on Ayrshire and its people . |
| 16 | For it is believed that God has been revealed in a peculiar way to a certain people , and in particular made known through the person of Jesus Christ . |
| 17 | She tells me that Jamie has been caught in a drugs bust at the Cross Keys pub . |
| 18 | THE body of missing British businessman Howard Bates has been found in a Florida swamp . |
| 19 | Lasagna explains : ‘ The West has been behaving in a miserly way towards the Russians . |
| 20 | A man at the centre of a stay-behind group in France has been killed in a Brittany sailing resort . |
| 21 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |
| 22 | CLAIMS of mounting public concern about violence on television following real-life crimes like the murder of the Liverpool two-year-old James Bulger have been answered in a research study published yesterday . |
| 23 | ‘ Ellison has been playing in a central midfield role for the youth team . |
| 24 | EAP has been evaluated in a small series of patients with locally advanced unresectable tumours . |
| 25 | In reality Roland had been killed in a Basque ambush at the Pass of Roncesvaux but in twelfth-century legend he died gloriously , fighting for Christendom in the great war against the infidel . |
| 26 | One of the Quorn had been discovered in a very loose-box with a girl from the Cotswold and dropped from his team . |
| 27 | Futre had been substituted in a warm-up match prior to departure for Valetta and had subsequently fallen out with Quieroz and was left at home for being ‘ not in the correct frame of mind ’ to play a World Cup tie . |
| 28 | Marjory had been killed in a fall from a horse two years earlier ; but a boy child , Robert , was born from her dead body . |
| 29 | The UP accused the government of responsibility for the murder ; until December Gutiérrez had been held in a top-security prison in Bogotá , but he was then transferred to Medellín and released for Christmas to join his family . |
| 30 | But the continuing confusion of the hostage situation , in Beirut and the Lebanon , was underlined by the claims of former hostage , David Jacobsen today , that Frank Reed had been held in a neighbouring cell and had tried to escape . |