Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] of " in BNC.

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1 Quicksons has since been cleared of criminal negligence , but the Masons are determined that Ryan is compensated for his injuries .
2 An aeroplane taking 22 men of the Special Air Service Regiment in June 1944 to be dropped behind the German lines to join the Maquis was recalled on account of bad weather , crashed somewhere in the wooded area near Dijon and no trace has since been found of the plane and its company .
3 Crohn 's disease has long been suspected of having an infective aetiology .
4 Persinger 's hypothesis thus contains what has long been demanded of ufology : a theory capable either of validation or falsification .
5 Though total equality might be hard to achieve because of the biological differences between the sexes , the legislation has perhaps been rounded of by the Equal Pay Act 1970 and the Sex Discrimination Acts 1975 and 1986 .
6 THE Army Major whose wife ran over and killed his lover has finally been stripped of his rank .
7 Decibel is an oral character in the sense that she is part of a play , but she has nevertheless been conceived of and written by Perry .
8 The position is the same if the offender is committed for some offences under Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.38 and for some under Criminal Justice Act 1967 , s.56 ; the restrictions in Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 have no application to the offences subject to committal under section 38 , as the Crown Court can sentence for those offences as if the offender has just been convicted of them on indictment , but do apply to the offences committed under section 56 .
9 The hon. Gentleman has just been reminded of the shabby teachers ' pay record of the Labour Government whom he supported some years ago — It was his Government then , although their successors may not be represented on the Front Bench in quite the way that the hon. Gentleman would wish .
10 An account has already been given of the proprietary and contractual disabilities of married women at Common Law and the creation by the Court of Chancery of an equitable separate estate which a married woman could freely deal with and bind by her contracts , so far as no restraint on anticipation had been imposed , and which , in any case , she could dispose of by will .
11 Research is being carried out in Zambezi where 14,000 sq kilometres of land has already been cleared of the fly .
12 Mention has already been made of the many Home Corners with more than one ‘ room ’ .
13 Mention has already been made of his influence on the Slovene literary movement .
14 Mention has already been made of the inexorable movement of the 1960s ‘ baby boom ’ through schooling age during the 1970s to entry into higher education and the labour force in the 1980s .
15 Mention has already been made of the significance of national trends in age structure , but it can be seen that these effects can be substantially reinforced at the regional and local level through migration .
16 Mention has already been made of waterfall cascade units .
17 Mention has already been made of SAIRI , based in Tehran and headed by Hojjatoleslam Muhammad Baqer al-Hakim , and of the anti-Baghdad bloc fostered in Damascus .
18 Mention has already been made of the eight-petalled rosette , and its appearance in at least two of the small , tangent squares in North Hill , mosaic B ; but this can hardly be considered an important association .
19 Mention has already been made of the type D arrangement from room L of the abaton at Lydney .
20 He has already been stripped of all his posts , but hardliners had been pressing for a public trial on criminal charges , though this looks unlikely .
21 Is he aware that Father Reilley , the chairman of the governors , has already been disposed of , that the new chairman had a brawl with the head teacher , to which the police had to be called , that the chairman has purported to sack the head teacher and that the Department has intervened and had correspondence and has appointed new governors ?
22 The susceptibility has already been spoken of but the assessment of a patient involves looking at their health on all levels , including physical , mental and emotional .
23 Physics , particularly since the work of Bacon and Descartes , has generally been thought of as an objective science , based on observable facts , in this way a body of certain knowledge is gradually built up .
24 But no serious systematic analysis has ever been made of the recruits , or of their careers as policemen .
25 What has formally been thought of as natural is marginalised as rude and barbarous .
26 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 .
27 The Hindu report infuriated the opposition in parliament and there were renewed demands for the resignation of Mr Gandhi , who has repeatedly been accused of attempting to cover up the scandal .
28 Europe has repeatedly been accused of cultural imperialism , of being a trade fortress and a rich man 's club .
29 The third man , David Harper , who 's 21 , has also been cleared of arson but still faces a charge of manslughter , arising from the deaths of twin sisters Rebecca and Emma Harper , aged 17 , who died in a barn fire near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire , last year .
30 Use has also been made of Russell 's work on the teaching of civics in Northern Ireland schools .
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