Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Law and Order Minister Hernus Kriel announced on Aug. 27 that 13 police generals had been dismissed in a reorganization of the SAP . |
| 2 | The reliability and clinical applications of computerised image analysis measurement of bowel uptake of Tc-99m HMPAO labelled leucocytes has been examined as a measure of disease activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 3 | They are clearly a very cost–effective form of risk assessment ; the situation will have been examined at a level of detail and expertise not usually available to individual companies . |
| 4 | Captain Bob Sclater , the Orkney island 's harbours director , said attempts to refloat the ship would stop until she had been examined by a team of salvage specialists . |
| 5 | Personal preference has been examined in a number of statistical ways . |
| 6 | These relations have been examined in a cohort of 46000 women followed for up to 19 years during the Royal College of General Practitioners ' ( RCFP ) oral contraception study . |
| 7 | The house had been furnished with a lot of money badly spent in a mixture of styles . |
| 8 | Mkolongolo alleged in a press statement that the United States ambassador , Smith Hempstone , had been recalled as a result of " misleading information " given him by Muite [ see also p. 38136 ] . |
| 9 | 1982 ) is a revised version of a well-established North American test which has been restandardised on a sample of British children . |
| 10 | Membership of the Founders ' Trust had changed frequently in the quest to find more women , working-class people and blacks , but at the time the prospectus was issued the original five Founders — Lowe , Walsh , Cooper , Sadgrove and Power — had been joined by a mixture of others . |
| 11 | The elder Despenser was left in charge at Bristol , but on the approach of the queen 's forces , who had now been joined by a group of northern magnates led by Henry Percy of Alnwick and Thomas Wake of Liddel , he surrendered and was tried and sentenced to death . |
| 12 | When he looked back he saw that Burun had been joined by a crowd of aides and counsellors . |
| 13 | By early 1945 the " Caucasians " ( with a large number of women , children and camp followers ) were also in north Italy , near Tolmezzo and had been joined by a number of emigres , one of whom , Gen Sultan Kelich Ghirei , took command in April 1945 after the departure of their former German commander . |
| 14 | By September , I had been joined by a director of studies and in November the first draft of a Development Plan for Banbury was published . |
| 15 | They have been joined by a host of small ‘ micro brewers ’ producing a limited barrelage but adding variety and choice in the genuine free trade . |
| 16 | These traditional cheeses have now been joined by a host of other British cheeses , some based on ancient recipes but others on new ideas , and British cheesemaking is enjoying a glittering renaissance . |
| 17 | The meeting had originally been scheduled to start on July 1 , but had been delayed as a result of Sri Lanka 's announcement on June 24 that it would not participate because of India 's refusal to agree on the withdrawal of the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) from Sri Lanka by the latter 's deadline of July 29 [ see p. 36735 ] . |
| 18 | Final approval had been delayed as a result of a Spanish-UK disagreement on the rate of tax to be applied to Spanish and British sherry in the UK . |
| 19 | Production from the two existing fields , KH and KF , has been stabilised by a combination of workovers , facilities optimisation and a gas injection programme and is currently at 21,000 bopd ( 4,100 bopd net to LASMO ) . |
| 20 | The two ladies in attendance on the Queen had been banished to a corner of the solar , where they sat talking quietly , half hidden by a carved wooden screen , but only the slightest effort would have been needed for either of them to overhear the interrogation going on by the fireplace . |
| 21 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
| 22 | The presumption of innocence has not been toppled ; rather , it has been corroded by a series of laws on alcohol and tobacco , football hooliganism , drugs , videos and even badgers . |
| 23 | It should not be used to make good any cuts that have been sustained as a result of falling rolls , ratecapping , etc . |
| 24 | Dury 's reputation as something of a hellraiser has been sustained by a couple of recent incidents : what he describes as his ‘ bit of bother at the opera ’ ( a minor fracas enthusiastically reported by the tabloid newspapers ) and an appearance on Nicky Campbell 's Radio 1 show , when Dury , who had dined well before going on air , spoke with unusual frankness on a number of subjects . |
| 25 | The Conforama and Marchandise cases came before the full court , whereas the Torfaen case had been heard by a chamber of the court . |
| 26 | Shildon said : ‘ The deal was n't favourable , I think that 's been recognized by a number of people for a long time . |
| 27 | The apparent existence of an economically unproductive residuum of social outcasts has been traced as a feature of social investigation and social policy by , among others , Stedman Jones ( 1971 ) and John Macnicol ( 1988 ) . |
| 28 | A tradition implies continuity , and the historical origins of collectivism have been traced in a variety of ways . |
| 29 | Why had the two men been favoured with a sound of the supernatural ? |
| 30 | Public sector pay settlements have been limited to a maximum of one point five per cent . |