Example sentences of "been [verb] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defence Ministry announced on July 16 that 71 members of the armed forces had been dismissed in the last year for human rights abuses and drug trafficking . |
| 2 | The Court then decided that the Tribunal 's decision was perverse , because there was no material from which to conclude that the hypothetical man guilty of misconduct would not have been dismissed in the same way as was S. Her appeal was dismissed and leave to appeal to the House of Lords was refused . |
| 3 | Evidently the sound that has been heard in the upper room is not just in the upper room but it 's er it 's audible within the whole district . |
| 4 | Despite a good number of studies having been undertaken in the first half of the century it was not until the late 1950s that the particular decrements in performance of sleepy subjects were established . |
| 5 | The party has been placed in the impossible position of choosing a leader to fight the next election when it has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the last one . |
| 6 | Andrew , after prolonged and rather unintelligent delinquency , has been placed in the secure unit of a community house with education . |
| 7 | Andrew , after prolonged and rather unintelligent delinquency , has been placed in the secure unit of a community house with education . |
| 8 | Danie Visser took the opportunity of his selection to South Africa 's first Davis Cup team to be announced since 1978 , to protest that they have been placed in the bottom Group , so that it will take them at least three years to qualify for the World Group . |
| 9 | It is clear that many Opposition Members , and possibly some Conservative Members , have received letters telling us that claims could not be paid because a bill board had been placed in the social security office . |
| 10 | Why two such important Russian spies should have been placed in the same cell block so that they could freely meet and talk together is a mystery . |
| 11 | Andy Roxburgh 's Scots have been placed in the second-draw section , along with Spain , the Soviet Union , Austria , Yugoslavia and Holland . |
| 12 | Andy Roxburgh 's Scots have been placed in the second-draw section , along with Spain , the Soviet Union , Austria , Yugoslavia and Holland . |
| 13 | Notification of the compulsory purchase order has been placed in the public press . |
| 14 | The House of Lords in two subsequent cases has retreated from the position it adopted in the original litigation , by making plain that the Government must prove some damage to the national interest and that no such damage can be established where the information has already been placed in the public domain by being published abroad . |
| 15 | During the hearing Michael Grade , chief executive of Channel Four , said that his company had " been placed in the invidious position of having to choose between breaking the law and putting individual lives in danger " . |
| 16 | Individual replies have , of course , been treated in the strictest confidence , but some of the aggregated results of the survey are summarised below . |
| 17 | She should have been treated in the same way that an older man would be dealt with for corrupting a young girl . |
| 18 | Since April 1989 , people in board-and-lodging accommodation have been treated in the same way as most other recipients of income support . |
| 19 | The faculty denied having discriminated against her and said she had been treated in the same way as all others seeking membership of the bar . |
| 20 | Only F. hirthi has been diagnosed in the live animal and this was in experimental dogs . |
| 21 | Indeed , as has already been highlighted in the previous discussion of cultural politics , the opposition between progressive and reactionary forces became so marked with the rise of fascism that it was less a question of reactionary versus progressive culture , than a struggle for the very existence of culture itself . |
| 22 | When questions , for example on morbidity , had been validated in the General Household Survey , it would be possible to include them in the Resource Allocation Survey . |
| 23 | All the terms used have been explained in the previous section with the exception of the statistical discrepancy . |
| 24 | At no. 6 lived Anne Knight , a widow born in Horningsham , Wilts. , where , by coincidence , a number of Titfords had been baptised in the mid-17th century ; no. 8 contained the Tomlinson family , a hay salesman 's bookkeeper from Norwich ; George Childs at no. 10 described himself grandly as a ‘ Landscape Painter ’ , and at no. 14 a lady called Mary Archer was in business as a private lodging-house keeper , assisted by Eliza Wade , her 17-year-old servant from Stepney . |
| 25 | Many of the shapes that had been developed in the Early Minoan nevertheless continued in use , especially the one-handled cup and the jar with a short spout on its shoulder , bridged by the rim . |
| 26 | Also , many new methods for analysing maps have been developed in the last decade and the UK is a world leader in this field of spatial statistics . |
| 27 | He hated untidiness and waste ; he thought that babies who threw things from their cradles should be punished , and children who would n't eat their food should be starved until they ate what they had been given in the first place . ’ |
| 28 | Nor is it an easy pink to obtain : in order that pink light should frame the shape of the little opera house and its windows all glow pink , 2,000 light bulbs were removed and replaced with others which workaday electricians ' pink not being the thing at all — had all been painted in the requisite shade by hand . |
| 29 | His youngest daughter Margaret married John Hastings Earl of Pembroke in 1359 , and although she died two years later , Pembroke remained high in favour at court and , with royal encouragement , embarked on a plan to reunite the inheritance of his ancestor William Marshall , which had twice been partitioned in the previous century and a half . |
| 30 | On the other they disapproved of some of the impediments which had been erected in the twentieth century : the requirements of a lis inter partes and a superadded duty to act judicially were said to be false constraints . |