Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
| 2 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
| 3 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 4 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 5 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 6 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 7 | The procession had been broken up by a large number of black youths from Lewisham , Deptford and Brixton , waving Ethiopian flags . |
| 8 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 9 | Positivists , of all varieties , have consequently been caught up in an endless quest for a universal , objective but non-legal concept of ‘ crime ’ . |
| 10 | The luck of the draw you may say , but if the match had been pegged out by a considerate , knowledgeable angler the problem would not have arisen . |
| 11 | Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist . |
| 12 | The once-scarlet , once-thick carpet in the foyer had been trodden down to a greasy thinness the exact shade of hard , encrusted blood . |
| 13 | VICAR 'S daughter Hannah Murray-Leslie was outraged by village gossips who claimed she had been booted out of a public school because of a frolic behind the bicycle shed . |
| 14 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 15 | Route options have been squeezed in down a narrow corridor of land near the A19 . |
| 16 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
| 17 | Once materials have been booked out of a main store formalities and paperwork should be kept to a minimum or avoided altogether . |
| 18 | The work has been carried out through a rolling programme covering 19 occupational areas and the results are published in the official journal of the EC . |
| 19 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |
| 20 | In the end , he had to settle for a survey which had been carried out on a national scale by a well-known agency . |
| 21 | Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) . |
| 22 | The situation at the moment in the field of research in homoeopathy is that much encouraging and interesting work demonstrating effects of homoeopathic potencies has been carried out in a wide variety of laboratory and clinical models . |
| 23 | The Minister also said that the medical examination had been carried out in a sympathetic and professional manner . |
| 24 | Sometimes the act has been carried out in a hostile fashion that causes maximum distress to the staff . |
| 25 | They were on weak ground , for there were no precedents for this , and on 8 March the Cologne assembly , now meeting at Mulhouse , divested Philip of this title and denied the validity of his election , saying that it had been carried out in an unusual place and that the count Palatine and the archbishop of Mainz had been absent . |
| 26 | The major part of the nominee 's work must have been carried out in an academic institution in the UK or Republic of Ireland and the person must currently work in such an institution . |
| 27 | The major part of the nominee 's work must have been carried out in an academic institution in the UK or Republic of Ireland and the person must currently work in such an institution . |
| 28 | This work has been carried out by a small group of volunteers ( three to four persons ) . |
| 29 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 30 | A review of the constitutional position of the police and the ‘ arrangements for their control and administration ’ , had been carried out by a Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Willink whose final report had been published as early as May 1962 . |