Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | French government plans to build a road tunnel through the Pyrenees have been blocked by a court ruling . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ten holidaymakers from Canada and the United States have been killed in a coach crash on the M-Two in Kent . |
| 5 | The metamorphic gneisses throughout the Hebrides have been eroded to a gentle , undulating landscape as can be seen in central Lewis . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Despite all their meticulous pre-tour preparation , England have been routed by a wicked combination of untimely injuries and sickness plus the loss of two vital tosses . |
| 8 | The Neath-born slow left-arm bowler is doing a sound job for Gloucestershire ; but Glamorgan have been left without a bowler of that kind , though ex-Kent spinner Mark Dobson came on a trial period . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people in Scotland have been injured as a result of being assaulted with a knife or pointed article since 1988 ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 10 | Senior staff at the Louvre have been smarting after a petition launched by eighty-eight year old French abstract artist Jean Bazaine and an article in Point de Vue — a magazine specialising in coverage of European royalty — accused them of gross negligence in their ambitious restoration of one of the museum 's largest pictures , ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ by Paolo Cagliari , better known as Veronese . |
| 11 | In an exhaustive study the Brookings Institution identified 190 incidents between 1944 and 1979 where the armed forces of the USSR have been used as a political instrument in peacetime . |
| 12 | The report 's conclusions are particularly embarrassing to the government as the Broads have been regarded as a test for its conservation commitment . |
| 13 | The community care reforms in the United Kingdom have been advanced as a genuine attempt to revise existing patterns of service and produce more effective care for those in need . |
| 14 | Well we 're looking at a particular condition of the lung that affects patients in intensive care ; it 's a disease a bit like pneumonia , it 's called the adult respiratory distress syndrome , and it 's a disease that we believe is associated with a lot of fluid in the lung , and a compatriot of mine , Dr Young , and Dr McQuillam have been working on a research that er has asked the question — ‘ if we reduce the amount of fluid in the lung , do these patients get better and get better quicker ’ . |
| 15 | In the province of Alberta alone , public timberlands almost the size of the UK have been leased to a dozen firms . |
| 16 | But such matters are relative : the major currencies outside the EMS have been characterized by a high degree of exchange rate volatility , and the proper comparison is to consider the effect on intra-community exchange rates without the operation of the EMS . |
| 17 | Life down on the farm is kiddie-sized in Niedersachen , German , where Thorsten , Manuela and Kornnelia Pape have been treated to a mini tractor by their father Klaus , who farms land around the village . |
| 18 | BRITISH troops on Cyprus have been banned from a resort while police allegations of assault and indecency are investigated . |
| 19 | The arguments for disabled employment rights in Britain have been fuelled by a number of factors . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | DISTRICT nurses in Gwynedd have been supplied with a screening aid designed by a colleague . |
| 22 | Services at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury have been saved by a decision to invest in a new maternity unit . |
| 23 | Plans to send a fact finding mission to Birmingham have been criticised by a Liberal Democrat on Sedgefield District Council . |
| 24 | Embarrassed to some extent by their traditional association with the Soviet Union , but at the same time drawing their identity from it , the communist parties of Western Europe have been passing through a period of internal crisis and conflict . |
| 25 | Members of an operational group at Statoil 's office in Forushagen have been working on a tender exercise with Lagos site office . |
| 26 | Rotosound have been experimenting with a new type of nickel plating which gives an exceptionally bright sound thanks to increased magnetic response . |
| 27 | Powerful stadium-style lights were turned onto the buildings where 105 followers of cult leader David Koresh have been barricaded since a shootout with men of the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco and Firearms on 28 February in which four federal agents were killed . |
| 28 | As at the Beginning the gifts of Pentecost have been renewed to a parched Church , and It can happen to Anybody . |
| 29 | The Interpretive Gardens and Centre at Whitland have been created as a tribute to Hywel Dda , who established a legal code following a great assembly at Whitland around 940 A.D. The new unified code has continued to influence modern day legal systems . |
| 30 | Everton have been looking for a target man to bring out the best in Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley . |