Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [verb] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The site of the old Baptist Tabernacle in Swindon has been cleared ready for redevelopment . |
| 2 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 3 | This business in Henley has been targeted four times . |
| 4 | The Rev C. A. Johns wrote six years earlier , in 1862 , ‘ Of late years , so unusual has the occurrence become of Bitterns breeding in this country , that the discovery of an egg in Norfolk has been thought worthy of being recorded in the transactions of the Linnean Society … |
| 5 | Police said that their two accomplices arrested in Ireland had been carrying several addresses of safe houses in France . |
| 6 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 7 | Shops in Manila have been stripped bare in panic buying , there have been runs on banks , and the government has advised city-folk to grow vegetables in their gardens and to stop ironing clothes to save energy . |
| 8 | On a more personal note , life in Cambridge has been made wonderful fun by the grads at the unit , Mark Coulson and all at Clare Hall , particularly the boys from Stiffy and The FT . |
| 9 | Air Force doctors from Wroughton in Wiltshire have been examining those selected for the airlift . |
| 10 | ( Similarly , Datir ( 1978 : 245 ) found that only five of 644 released prisoners in a sample in Maharastra had been granted this . ) |
| 11 | A British soldier who joined the rebel Croatian army in Yugoslavia has been shot dead . |
| 12 | He claimed half-hour warnings to the Samaritans and police in Merseyside had been made two minutes after the bombs were planted . |
| 13 | While no deaf person in Britain has been awarded any armed services medal — for the simple reason that no deaf person is permitted to serve in the armed services — or any government sponsored civilian award , or police award , deaf people have been given awards from such bodies as the Carnegie Fund , the Royal Humane Society , and the Society for Protection of Life from Fire . |
| 14 | The embassy in London had been sending disturbing accounts of Britain 's over-stretched economy and defence forces well before Labour took office . |
| 15 | A report recommending improvements to elderly people 's homes in Oxfordshire has been made public this morning . |
| 16 | A Christmas card sent to him by an AI member in Switzerland had been returned marked ‘ Consigned is free ’ . |
| 17 | In John has been taken ill , the rheme is take + ill . |