Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the language barrier , which has been eased by the general acceptance of English everywhere except in France , British and Continental military staffs have practically no shared operational experience or traditions . |
| 2 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 3 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 4 | Since 1982 , the burden of CGT has been eased by the welcome introduction of index-linking . |
| 5 | I reflected that I was not sure if I had ever been filled with the Holy Spirit , let alone spoken the word of God boldly . |
| 6 | And if we 've been filled with the Holy Spirit , then we should have the evidence to go with it . |
| 7 | Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy announced on Oct. 16 that the Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff and the Commander of the Development Forces of the army had been dismissed following the late delivery of fuel to the capital . |
| 8 | Seven players have been dismissed in the latest intercontinental group stages and last night the organising committee of four officials each from Italy and England , chaired by Bristol City 's Leslie Kew , held a crisis meeting in Pisa . |
| 9 | The Defence Ministry announced on July 16 that 71 members of the armed forces had been dismissed in the last year for human rights abuses and drug trafficking . |
| 10 | The Court then decided that the Tribunal 's decision was perverse , because there was no material from which to conclude that the hypothetical man guilty of misconduct would not have been dismissed in the same way as was S. Her appeal was dismissed and leave to appeal to the House of Lords was refused . |
| 11 | The following day , the Committee issued a manifesto expounding its justification for the rising , and appointed General Franco — who , it will be remembered , had been dismissed by the legitimate government of the nation — as chief of the Armies of Morocco and southern Spain . |
| 12 | Subsequently , on Feb. 17 , it was reported that a long-range airforce division with nuclear capacity had put itself under Ukrainian jurisdiction , and that its commander , who had been dismissed by the long-range Air Force Commander , Col.-Gen . |
| 13 | The Minister will no doubt refer to the OECD report , which appears to have been dismissed by the hon. Gentleman . |
| 14 | But the British professional classes had been examined by the academic team of Lewis and Maude in 1952 , who found cause for concern that taxation had reduced the differentials between the professions to such an extent that they feared their quality might not be maintained . |
| 15 | But I have read and enjoyed ‘ pornography ’ , just as I have been aroused by the pictorial depiction of sex — and I refuse to feel guilty for it . |
| 16 | All the interviewees were asked what moved them to experiment with heroin in the first instance The largest group ( 33 per cent ) first tried heroin out of curiosity which , in most of the cases , had been aroused by the previous use of other drugs . |
| 17 | In all three Baltic republics , and in the southern republic of Moldavia ( which like them had been annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 ) , separatism was the dominant election issue . |
| 18 | Mohinder Amarnath , the all-rounder who angered the Indian selectors last year by labelling them a ‘ bunch of jokers ’ , has been recalled to the Indian team for the three-nation Sharjah Cup cricket tournament from 12 to 20 October . |
| 19 | Fulham defender Jeff Hopkins has been recalled to the Welsh squad for the World Cup qualifier against The Netherlands as a replacement for Kevin Ratcliffe . |
| 20 | IT MIGHT not be Ireland 's biggest or most lucrative export but thousands of shamrocks , carefully sealed in air-tight bags immediately after being picked , have been flown from the Emerald Isle to the Irish in Britain in time for St Patrick 's Day celebrations today . |
| 21 | Resort , according to one report , has been blended into the natural landscape ‘ almost to the point of camouflage ’ . |
| 22 | The Council of Europe , the OEEC and NATO had been joined in the 1950s by WEU . |
| 23 | It is a counterfeit of the spirit that goes on daily , you see , made worse because it has been joined by the visual counterfeit possible in television . |
| 24 | Mr Louis-Dreyfus , who has taken a 15 per cent stake in the new company , has been joined by the UK-based investment company , Coatbridge Holdings with 15 per cent whilst an unnamed investment fund , which is advised by the US money-center bank Citibank , has taken 19.9 per cent . |
| 25 | Up to one million purchases are estimated to have been delayed during the last three years because of the sluggish market . |
| 26 | Completion had been delayed by the legal details , he said . |
| 27 | But the Stokesley sprinter , whose season has been delayed by the combined effects of study and injury , summarily dismissed her chances of qualifying for a second successive Olympic Games after winning the 200 metres title for the third time in seven years . |
| 28 | His return had been delayed by the same blizzard that had almost prevented Judith leaving Manhattan , and put him beyond the deadline Klein had set . |
| 29 | Erm , in paragraph thirteen , Invest in People , the target date for er , achievement in the award has been delayed from the twenty seventh of , sorry the twenty eighth of February , until the twentieth of May , and the reason for that has been staff effort required to get community action going . |
| 30 | All of a sudden they realised they had been tricked from the very beginning . |