Example sentences of "the [noun sg] been [verb] with " in BNC.

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1 Had the court been provided with the information that was necessary , he said , PW would not have been appointed receiver-manager because of ‘ the untenable conflict position ’ in which it had placed itself .
2 Or again we ask , had the signal been tampered with ?
3 For these parts of the country the evidence on earnings would seem to justify Adam Smith 's observation of 1776 : " the high price of provisions during these ten years past has not in many parts of the kingdom been accompanied with any sensible rise in the money price of labour " .
4 We 've always in the West used the term Russian nationalist as one of abuse , er and that it seems to me as , because it 's always in the past been associated with empire , Russian nationalists in practice have oppressed other people , but after all why should the Russians not be patriotic just as the British as er a citizen or a Frenchman can be patriotic , er provided that that does n't go with oppressing other people .
5 THE father of Antony Gurney , 27 , the man been charged with murdering 19-year-old Stephanie Dorman in Hartlepool last weekend , has died .
6 Has the situation been dealt with effectively ?
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