Example sentences of "been [vb pp] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The sensitivity of platelets from diabetic subjects to the antiaggregatory effects of prostacyclin has been examined in a cross-sectional study using the electronic whole blood platelet aggregometer ( Jones et al , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | Transverse effects have been examined in a few instances . |
| 7 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 8 | By the turn of the century the landed class had been joined in a powerful ruling oligarchy by the representatives of ‘ new ’ economic forces , principally the bankers and heavy industrialists of the Basque country and the manufacturers of Catalonia . |
| 9 | The Council of Europe , the OEEC and NATO had been joined in the 1950s by WEU . |
| 10 | A village that was mentioned in the Domesday Book has now been immortalised in a modern publication . |
| 11 | The British economy has been sustained in no small part by migrants from the former dominions — India , Pakistan , Bangladesh and the West Indies . |
| 12 | Evidently the sound that has been heard in the upper room is not just in the upper room but it 's er it 's audible within the whole district . |
| 13 | The problem has been recognized in the International Relations literature , especially since the rise of Behaviouralism in the 1950s . |
| 14 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 15 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 16 | With the release of ‘ The Rehearsal ’ his ultra-modest hopes have been realised in the finest possible style , because with the obvious exception of Jimmy MacCarthy 's debut there has n't been a solo endeavour to touch this one , here in recent times . |
| 17 | Bernard went into hiding and was only heard of again when news reached the Israeli Mossad that he had been assassinated in a car-bomb attack in Beirut . |
| 18 | Concern has been expressed by nursing organisations that some skillmix exercises have been undertaken in a simplistic manner , purely for cost-cutting purposes and with adverse effects on quality of care . |
| 19 | It is true that certain measures of nationalisation had been undertaken in the first months of Soviet government — for example , the Merchant Marine had been taken over in January 1918 and the sugar industry nationalised in May of that year — but the main efforts had been directed towards a stabilisation and regularisation of the tottering economy on the existing basis of ownership . |
| 20 | Despite a good number of studies having been undertaken in the first half of the century it was not until the late 1950s that the particular decrements in performance of sleepy subjects were established . |
| 21 | The first attitude has been witnessed in the 1930s and during our more recent experience of high unemployment . |
| 22 | When a plant has been placed in a low-humidity environment likely to cause water stress the measurements taken so far have always decreased and so revealed the stress . |
| 23 | But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership . |
| 24 | Maintenance Manager — this role has been given considerable status in this example ; it could have been placed in a subordinate position to the Manufacturing Manager , where it is frequently to be found . |
| 25 | ‘ You see , Doctor Masters , ’ he continued , ‘ we have been placed in a difficult position , but that is no reflection on your qualities as a good doctor . |
| 26 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 27 | The party has been placed in the impossible position of choosing a leader to fight the next election when it has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the last one . |
| 28 | More controversial shots of a spoof wedding ceremony and a lesbian couple kissing , both featuring bare breasts , have been placed in the second of two rooms housing the exhibition . |
| 29 | Andrew , after prolonged and rather unintelligent delinquency , has been placed in the secure unit of a community house with education . |
| 30 | Andrew , after prolonged and rather unintelligent delinquency , has been placed in the secure unit of a community house with education . |