Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Whereas on earlier occasions where bad news or unfavourable developments had occurred , the view had prevailed — at least in public utterances — that the Führer had been badly counselled or had been kept uninformed , in the case of Stalingrad Hitler was directly implicated in the catastrophe . |
2 | Although the three individual defendants had either signed or had been made aware of undertakings of confidentiality when they entered the employment of the plaintiff , counsel on behalf of the plaintiffs did not rely upon such undertakings before the judge but relied upon general implied principles of law in this area . |
3 | If it exists at all , their efforts must be going unrecognised , or have been rendered inoperative , or were never activated in the first place . |
4 | Does she think that I have no feelings , or have been struck deaf because I stand by the kitchen door , silent ? |
5 | At Lindholme prison in Doncaster , once-weekly two-hour sessions take place in a room that has been made available within the library and comfortably furnished with easy chairs and a coffee table . |
6 | The BES fund is an alternative that has been made available to investors . |
7 | The total amount of Government grant that has been made available to British Coal over the past five financial years is £8.5 billion . |
8 | But I was also involved in an insurance policy that has been made available for my patients , when they have that worst moment in their lives , you 've got cancer , you 've had a stroke , to know that in this threat , to what 's going to happen to them , they at least have financial independence . |
9 | ‘ I am glad that has been made clear . |
10 | The club is one of many that has been made unplayable by the winter weather |
11 | Exactly the same unconscious human intention that has been made manifest by the deification of Jesus Christ , can be seen in the cult of the Virgin Mary . |
12 | Editor , — The study that has been mounted consequent on the grounding of the tanker Braer on 5 January 1993 has been inaccurately reported . |
13 | As long ago as 1915 Scott published the first research on interviews showing that 6 personnel managers could not agree about a common set of applicants , a finding that has been replicated innumerable times and will be reflected in the personal experience of most interviewers . |
14 | That support is available in the Scottish Office and has been tried and tested in the work that has been done supporting the central institutions . |
15 | On the other hand , we realise that professional clinicians coming to the book might remain unconvinced about some of our chosen examples , as indeed might those readers who only feel comfortable with terms like ‘ schizophrenia ’ when they are used in a sense that has been given medical approval . |
16 | ‘ Obviously they 're looking at every aspect and it may include action against Tom Walkinshaw for putting together a deal that has been ruled unlawful . ’ |
17 | It is this basic human right that has been denied deaf persons and their families for hundreds of years . |
18 | Before turning to the work of Sayre , Dennett and Sloman , I should at least mention one major question that has been left unasked in this paper , and intentionally so : namely , what properties would a machine have to have in order to be sufficient for us to deem it conscious ? |
19 | Did you know about the family that has been found dead ? |
20 | They had no subsistence plots to fall back on , some tried reviving traditional handicrafts but these could not compete with the manufactured goods that had been made available by the market system . |
21 | While hand colouring was fully accepted as a compromise , and in fact supplied work to the legions of miniature painters that had been made redundant by the advent of photography , experiments continued to be made all over the world . |
22 | While hand colouring was fully accepted as a compromise , and in fact supplied work to the legions of miniature painters that had been made redundant by the advent of photography , experiments continued to be made all over the world . |
23 | Domestically , it was necessary to prevent ‘ sinister interests ’ from dominating the political process — the world that had been made safe for democracy had to be kept safe by democracy . |
24 | Todd had n't spoken in over a minute , but there was a harshness on the line that Ellwood knew to be his breathing , and a thin , reedy , barely audible sound behind that , which resembled nothing so much as a cry that had been buried alive . |
25 | With many fewer people , ideas that had been considered impossible , such as combinations of major functions , were now implemented successfully . |
26 | Except for a white , Ford van , similar to the van that had been parked near to the Coroner 's Court , nothing caught his suspicions ; he watched the van drive past . |
27 | From the book he 'd just put down he knew that vast tracts of virgin tropical forest covered those mountainsides and large areas of the lowlands too ; in the book there w.ere sepia-tinted photographs of primitive tribesmen who still hunted with stone-tipped arrows and poison darts in those same forests that also teemed with elephant herds , tiger , buffalo , black bears and countless other rare species of animal life that had been left undisturbed by the march of civilization . |
28 | Of course the ‘ big three ’ are only the tip of the iceberg — there are dozens more brilliant routes at the Roaches , including one classic of a style that had been left unrepresented by our day out . |
29 | She was thinking of the book that had been left open on the bedcover when she first visited ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
30 | The hearth was drifted up with cinders that had been left uncleared when today 's fire was lit . |