Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Law and Order Minister Hernus Kriel announced on Aug. 27 that 13 police generals had been dismissed in a reorganization of the SAP . |
| 32 | ‘ We did not accept his resignation because we felt he had already been dismissed in the summer , ’ Lawrie Hargrave said . |
| 33 | The Institute had hoped that the Department of Trade and Industry would replace the existing Companies Act legislation with new provisions based on the Directives , but this route has apparently been dismissed by the DTI in its consultative document on implementation , because it would require primary legislation . |
| 34 | PETER BURNS , head of the Sheffield World Student Games organisation , has been dismissed by the company which is organising the event , Universiade GB Ltd . |
| 35 | An appeal against Langbaurgh Council 's decision not to allow the erection of a two-storey side extension at Abrams Buildings in Loftus has been dismissed by the Secretary of State . |
| 36 | Alternatively , employees who might have sued the transferor employer ( i.e. the government department ) directly on the Directive , because , say , they had been dismissed by the department in the course of a contracting out , are not time-barred , if they act before the 1993 Bill is enacted . |
| 37 | GARY ‘ CAT ’ JOHNSON , the coach of the season in 1987-88 , has been dismissed by the Leicester Riders . |
| 38 | The question to be addressed by an industrial tribunal in a particular case is whether a man would have been dismissed by the employer if , in the same circumstances , he would have been absent for the same length of time for medical reasons . |
| 39 | Protests from shop owners in Sunderland over increased parking charges have been dismissed by the city 's director of engineering Tom Ball who said that city parking was still amongst the cheapest in the country . |
| 40 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
| 41 | Like Rey and others , he had been dismissed from the Paris Conservatoire in 1802 after various disagreements . |
| 42 | Both had been dismissed from the Army for involvement in a previous attempt in May 1988 . |
| 43 | Seineldin , leader of an unsuccessful military coup against the previous government of President Raúl Alfonsín in December 1988 [ see p. 36394 ] , had been dismissed from the Army in October 1989 [ see p. 36972 ) . |
| 44 | By the fortunes of politics , it has been dismissed from the scene . |
| 45 | A prison officer who had been dismissed from the prison service appealed against his dismissal to the Civil Service Appeal Board , which held that his dismissal was unfair . |
| 46 | Shildon , he explained , had been dismissed from the Detroit paper towards the end of a long and exhaustive investigation which , if the results had been published , could have had serious repercussions for MacQuillan 's political associates . |
| 47 | Ingraham , a former protegé of Pindling , had been dismissed from the PLP and the Cabinet in 1984 because he had recommended the dismissal of officials who were publicly linked to drugs trafficking [ see pp. 33401-02 ] . |
| 48 | The Convention has been binding upon the United Kingdom since 1953 . |
| 49 | Richard Crossman , for one , in 1965 lamented , ‘ How much more humane and imaginative our post-war reconstruction would have proved if government departments had been invigorated by an influx of experts with special knowledge , new ideas and a sympathy for the Government 's domestic and foreign policies ’ .3– George Brown 's National Plan of 1965 represented a belated attempt to recapture the ground perceived to have been lost since the war ended . |
| 50 | ‘ So I struggled on when the best thing would have been to go into the reserves and get my confidence back . |
| 51 | Throughout August and September , a vicious battle had been waged between the Director of Military Operations and the Director of Combined Operations at MEHQ for control of all raiding forces . |
| 52 | Defeated presidential candidates Ion Ratiu ( Christian Democratic National Peasants ' Party — CDNPP ) and Radu Campeanu ( National Liberal Party — NLP ) listed irregularities in the process and complained that the campaign had been waged in an atmosphere of violence ; both , however , stated their intention to participate in the new parliament . |
| 53 | At an early stage four bishops had joined the queen in Suffolk ; six had later witnessed the proclamation of Prince Edward as keeper of the realm ; towards the end , more than a dozen prelates had been coerced by the London mob into support for the queen 's party . |
| 54 | The reliability and clinical applications of computerised image analysis measurement of bowel uptake of Tc-99m HMPAO labelled leucocytes has been examined as a measure of disease activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 55 | They are clearly a very cost–effective form of risk assessment ; the situation will have been examined at a level of detail and expertise not usually available to individual companies . |
| 56 | The problems have also been examined from the vantage of the archivist . |
| 57 | Det Sgt Pat Lewis , of the child protection team , confirmed she had been examined by a doctor and added : ‘ We will be speaking to her in the morning . |
| 58 | The boy had been examined by a surgeon , Thomas Chapman , who found numerous wheals , bruises and lacerations , and his report to the guardians led to proceedings being taken against the tailor before the County magistrates ; he was convicted and fined £5 . |
| 59 | Captain Bob Sclater , the Orkney island 's harbours director , said attempts to refloat the ship would stop until she had been examined by a team of salvage specialists . |
| 60 | That 's been examined by a gunsmith who says the gun was real . |