Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 2 | It is hoped that the last has been heard of the practice ( see contributory cause ( a ) ) and that for the future it will be abandoned for what we now know to be more prudent and wiser measures . |
| 3 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 4 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) was reported in early August to be unable to trace more than a few hundred of the many thousands of Iraqi soldiers who died in the Gulf war fighting , nor had details been given of the location of mass graves . |
| 5 | No warning , of course , had been given of the shelling from the ‘ Big Berthas ’ and the public feared that an advance on Paris would soon follow . |
| 6 | No indication has yet been given of the price of the G40 , but it will need to retail for less than £11,000 to keep the GTi in touch . |
| 7 | Apart from the vandalism problems they 've had , where whole trainload of cars have been stripped of the radios . |
| 8 | The Club on the other hand has been stripped of the non-essentials — who needs a luxury interior in a training environment ? |
| 9 | It had already been stripped of the lighting side of its business , the more profitable side , and now the tramway undertaking was to be absorbed into the unified transport system , of which so much had been heard . |
| 10 | But the Gospels themselves confirm that Jesus and his entourage , in keeping with what would have been expected of the Messiah , were militant nationalists who did not shrink from violence . |
| 11 | The underlying problem was , perhaps , that too much had been expected of the Queen . |
| 12 | But in view of the difficulties , more would have been expected of the occasion : more in time — an extra day perhaps — and more in emotional commitment . |
| 13 | On several occasions judicial review has been sought of the Commission 's recommendations . |
| 14 | For it has always been said of the eucharist that precisely it is not a play about the last supper — in which case the celebrant had best be male and semitic in appearance . |
| 15 | Observations have been made of the processes leading to slug production at much lower Reynolds numbers , but transition does not then result . |
| 16 | We do however consider in Section 10–5 the implications of the different approaches for the size of the public sector , and discuss some of the econometric investigations that have been made of the determinants of public spending . |
| 17 | No use has been made of the courts . |
| 18 | No use has been made of the courts . |
| 19 | Anthony Ingle is collecting material , on behalf of the Peter Warlock Society , for an archive and a discography of all the recordings that have been made of the music of Peter Warlock . |
| 20 | In the preceding chapters a simple presentation has been made of the properties of curved space–time . |
| 21 | At the Sizewell inquiry , and in parliament and ministerial statements , much play has been made of the existence of international safeguards and treaties designed to prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons and to block civil facilities being used for military purposes . |
| 22 | Much has been made of the threat that Microsoft and NT might pose to Unix . |
| 23 | Much has been made of the beneficence of French rule in Lebanon ; the economy was revitalised , Beirut harbour enlarged , and a network of major roads built to link the country 's principal cities . |
| 24 | Much criticism has recently been made of the performance of routine police patrol . |
| 25 | Mention has already been made of the type D arrangement from room L of the abaton at Lydney . |
| 26 | Let it suffice to say , at this point , notwithstanding the criticisms that have been made of the assumptions on which both ISI and ELI theories are based , export-import structure is now a key characteristic of the economic growth and by implication developmental prospects of Third World countries . |
| 27 | A number of estimates have been made of the effects of regional policy in terms of new jobs created directly and indirectly . |
| 28 | Much has been made of the contracts coming up for renewal with the main power generators in the United Kingdom — National Power and PowerGen . |
| 29 | Information gathering should not take place until a careful assessment has been made of the management tasks and decisions which require information . |
| 30 | Incumbent members of Congress have always been difficult to defeat and too much may have been made of the advantages of incumbency in the modern legislature . |