Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.

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1 All other Palestinian higher-learning institutions had been reopened after having been closed at various times since the intifada started .
2 On July 13 the Home Affairs Minister , S. B. Chavan , who had visited Ayodhya the previous day , told the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) that the central government 's offer to provide additional security to ensure that the disputed land was not encroached upon had been turned down by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh .
3 The drawing and new evidence about cars suspected of having been used by the bombers , has prompted police to call 1,500 Deal residents for further interviews later this week with 50 officers at a church hall .
4 At some grounds ( notably Manchester United 's ) security fencing and iron grilles of the type that zoo cages are made of have been installed .
5 The dull brick it was originally built in has been encrusted with sculpted mermaids , studded with life-size rhinoceros heads , and given ramparts of giant frogs .
6 A working party chaired by has been examining the Non-Intending Practitioners ' Course .
7 Compare it with a late kouros ( fig. 72 ) , a larger work set on a grave in central Attica , of one Aristodikos , and beautifully preserved through having been taken down and buried when it can not have been standing very long , perhaps to avoid desecration by the Persian invader .
8 All the children called in have been treated by the man in the past two months .
9 Significantly , this is the very language which Urban II had used three years earlier with regard to homage by priests to laymen : the hands , he had declared , in which Christ 's Body was made in the Eucharist were defiled by having been enclosed in the bloody hands of laymen .
10 But , though pre-tax profits for the year ending 31 December showed a technical increase of 16.1 per cent from 1991 's £28 million , that year 's profits figure was arrived at having been restated after an exceptional deduction of £4.2 million .
11 The cautions referred to had been given and he had been questioned months earlier on the first charges .
12 A party from the Ordnance Survey left after having been stationed here for the last six months .
13 At least ten pit bull terriers have been destroyed after having been collected by the dog wardens .
14 While Hocazade was at Iznik , where he had been sent after having been removed from the kadilik of Istanbul through the machinations of Karamani Mehmed Pasa , he had occasion to come once to Istanbul .
15 The best way to start on this dis section of this discussion may be to erm express the observation that the county council and at least one of the local authorities which is Harrogate , erm are already engaged in have been engaged in for some time a very positive erm activity to try and attract to the county inward investment predicament that the economic development unit of the county council , the economic development of at of at least the one local authority that I have named and erm prospective developers such I 'm representing today , share common predicament , is that the existing structure plan constructs some obstructions , erects some obstructions to the attraction of inward investment into the county .
16 The men , all of whom had been captured after having been shot down over enemy territory , gave their names , sent greetings to their families and made statements critical of the war .
17 Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn .
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