Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police violence against members of racial minorities became a national issue following the widespread broadcast on television of an amateur video showing white Los Angeles policemen brutally beating a black man who had been stopped for an alleged driving offence on March 3 . |
| 2 | Each a study in itself , with titles like ‘ No two feathers ’ , ‘ Butterflyman ’ , and ‘ Angel and the Dreamer ’ , they have been flown as an aerial ballet to classical music , wind harps and synthesisers . |
| 3 | It has now been joined by an attractive estate model , also available with automatic . |
| 4 | indeed , he , he 's been revered as an intellectual player , erm , he , a thinking player , a shining example , and of course , that , that shows up in , in statistics when you read about what he 's achieved , and you think , you know , fifty six caps for Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Also , an annual revaluation of our investment properties required for accounts purposes as well as for good practice has been undertaken with an effective date of 31 March 1993 . |
| 6 | David Smith 's ‘ Cubi XXVII ’ , the celebrated work which used to stand by the museum 's entrance , and a second sculpture by the artist , have been placed on an awkward terrace above the Monitor Building . |
| 7 | Most decent councillors have been placed in an impossible position because of the failure of the Government 's housing and economic policies to deliver the affordable rural homes that are so desperately needed . |
| 8 | Norman Lindop , as Chairman of the Committee for Education at this stage , considered that the Council had been placed in an impossible position by the sudden introduction of a new range of institutions ‘ and the need for urgent action to solve problems externally created ’ . |
| 9 | Much of the criticism was justified but to be fair to Hodge , he had been placed in an invidious position and , blinkered as he was , in some respects , he was correct in appreciating that a rebuilding of the Korean right offered the only means of preventing communist success in south Korea . |
| 10 | Having completed a tour of the museum , Elisabeth and Svend found themselves back in Svend 's office , where fresh coffee had been placed by an unseen hand . |
| 11 | Sadly , that has been treated as an open invitation to create statutory exceptions without the need for special justifications . |
| 12 | The effect of this change on prior years is a credit of £9.1m , which has been treated as an exceptional item in the 1991/92 p&l account ; accordingly , prior years ' figures have not been restated . |
| 13 | Thus , the yearly incidence rate was 0.03% for the whole population , and even if it had been adjusted to an age-standardised incidence , the observed incidence of 1.2% would still be more than expected , considering that the uncorrected risk ratio was 40 . |
| 14 | So : your Uccello has been skewered by an assegai-wielding sociopath convinced that some noxious item of legislation will be reversed once he Goths a valuable masterpiece . |
| 15 | The decision has caused considerable controversy and been criticized as an excessive response to the problem , but Mayor Jean Baylaucq justified it on the grounds that the bears constituted a threat to animals and humans . |
| 16 | This has been explained by an increased number of transient sphincter relaxations after a meal . |
| 17 | A prized garden which has been tended by the same family for sixty years has been wrecked by an out-of-control car . |
| 18 | As a result of their continued advocacy , research for its own sake has been developed on an appreciable scale . |
| 19 | These MBA programmes have been developed on an open learning concept built around Henley 's successful distance learning materials . |
| 20 | The most successful placement programmes to date have been developed from an identifiable need and developed into an accessible package which is clearly targeted with a prescribed framework e.g. Women in Management , Transition from School to Work , Information Technology . |
| 21 | This theory , which has been developed from an extensive survey of landscape paintings , argues that landscapes are highly symbolic habitats in which the most valued landscapes allow us to see ( prospect ) without being seen ( refuge ) and therefore relate to our origins as hunter-gatherers . |
| 22 | The new artificial pancreas has been developed by an American company called Biohybrid Technologies , and the Harvard University Medical School . |
| 23 | Permission has been given for an 18-hole golf course at the Redworth Hall Hotel , near Heighington . |
| 24 | Obviously personal inclination is very important , but personal inclination can often arise from having been taught by an exceptional teacher , or having a scientist parent who helps with homework . |
| 25 | In a country where , as a popular song puts it , ‘ every son is born a soldier ’ and turns out each year for a spell of military service until he is well into middle age , the army has long been regarded as an essential part of the country 's armed neutrality . |
| 26 | In the past , question time has been regarded as an effective method of pressing ministers . |
| 27 | In so far as NAB has been regarded as an interim arrangement , despite the dropping of the word ‘ Interim ’ from the original title of the main body , questions about its future are bound to arise . |
| 28 | Some are hazardous : for example , nitrates and radon , which is said to have been regarded as an invigorating tonic in some Italian mineral water . |
| 29 | The unions representing the museum warders , which in the past wielded much power , have often been regarded as an insurmountable obstacle to such a reform of the museums , but the trades union movement in general is much enfeebled at present , and other recent government decrees enforcing the mobility of public sector workers are expected to favour Ronchey 's policy . |
| 30 | Given recent reductions in the rate of personal taxation , there is now little fiscal benefit to be obtainedthough in any case that should have been regarded as an incidental benefit and not a justification in itself for the establishment of such a company . |