Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 11 of the Act authorises police officers to arrest anyone they suspect of being or having been involved in terrorist activity . |
| 2 | Mr Chapman was prosecuted under s 37 of the 1974 Act , which states that where an offence under any of the relevant statutory provisions committed by a corporate body is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of , or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of , any director , manager , secretary , or similar officer , or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity , he , as well as the corporate body , shall be guilty of that offence . |
| 3 | On Aug. 26 , Citibank blamed the Indian banking system for irregularities in its Indian operations and denied that it had " accommodated " or had been involved with those implicated in the scandal . |
| 4 | When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days . |
| 5 | He denied that the paramilitaries had been linked to the drug traffickers or had been responsible for the massacres of campesinos attributed to them . |
| 6 | Loyalty , service , and duty were exactly the values which the ‘ boy labour ’ reformers sought to impress upon young workers , and as many of the reformers were also active , or had been active in one or more of the youth groups , they were sympathetic to the objectives of the Scout movement . |
| 7 | If we have recently lost sleep ( after a week of trying to sleep in the daytime , for example ) or have been awake for an unusually long time , then the amount of deep sleep is increased but it is still concentrated in the earlier part of sleep . |
| 8 | Article 2 , which sets out the general areas of workers ' rights , simply spells out many rights that already exist in law , or have been present in well-unionised work places for years before Thatcherism . |
| 9 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 10 | To summarize : if you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long period : |
| 11 | Now unless you 're a skinhead of the old school , or have been time-warped for twenty years , parkas are not exactly in when it comes to neat threads . |
| 12 | ‘ It is not as though we are bad shopkeepers or have been foolish with our money . |
| 13 | There is a good reason : those of childhood are or have been those of every client ( and also of every social worker ) and may be considered as common to every adult group . |
| 14 | But the more ‘ reformist ’ amongst the élite have either stopped short of introducing real market conditions ( Kosygin ) or have been oblivious to the need for them . |
| 15 | This , in theory , saves lives on the other side — a concern that has been rare in recent wars , but seems to carry some weight in this one . |
| 16 | We are now getting close to the flanks of Akka , a seven-peaked mountain that has been visible for four or five days . |
| 17 | ‘ I was a bit worried about taking a show that has been one of the great musical hits of all time , which I felt was a bit of fluff with one big smash song , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years . |
| 19 | Throughout industry this election day , a host of trade unionists are waiting with acute anxiety , nursing their hopes : a Labour victory will enable them to reassert their influence on factories throughout the land , in a manner that has been impossible for a decade . |
| 20 | Political culture is a vague abstract concept that has been subject to various definitions . |
| 21 | It was Esquire 's dubious achievement to be born into an economy that has been unkind to all , but one in which the advertising business has been particularly hard-pressed . |
| 22 | After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making . |
| 23 | We move on next day over hard packed snow that has been wind-blown into flutes and columns . |
| 24 | This type of index is used in the Indexed Sequential Access Method ( ISAM ) that has been available on IBM mainframe computer systems since the late sixties , and is now available on some microcomputers . |
| 25 | Any management training that has been available for ryokan has been almost entirely ‘ in house ’ up to now , although the whole area of hotel management training is being rethought in Japan . |
| 26 | I 'm the fifth generation of a family that has been involved in the theatre … they 've built theatres , run companies , been actors , married actresses . |
| 27 | If you doubt this , talk to any private oil company that has been involved in the North Sea . |
| 28 | It quite frequently happens that a horse that has been used to drinking out of a dam or stream , will always refuse water from a trough or bucket , irrespective of how thirsty it may be . |
| 29 | The second attraction is that the Town and Country Planning Association is a fascinating case study of a pressure group that has been active over a long period . |
| 30 | Both Tustian and Pardoe are among the 600 farmers who are approved by the Soil Association , the largest organic farming body in Britain , whose main criterion is that certified produce must be grown on soil that has been free from artificial additives for at least two years . |