Example sentences of "been [vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Council of Europe , the OEEC and NATO had been joined in the 1950s by WEU . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The problem has been recognized in the International Relations literature , especially since the rise of Behaviouralism in the 1950s . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The first attitude has been witnessed in the 1930s and during our more recent experience of high unemployment . |
| 13 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Andrew , after prolonged and rather unintelligent delinquency , has been placed in the secure unit of a community house with education . |
| 17 | Andrew , after prolonged and rather unintelligent delinquency , has been placed in the secure unit of a community house with education . |
| 18 | Danie Visser took the opportunity of his selection to South Africa 's first Davis Cup team to be announced since 1978 , to protest that they have been placed in the bottom Group , so that it will take them at least three years to qualify for the World Group . |
| 19 | It is clear that many Opposition Members , and possibly some Conservative Members , have received letters telling us that claims could not be paid because a bill board had been placed in the social security office . |
| 20 | Why two such important Russian spies should have been placed in the same cell block so that they could freely meet and talk together is a mystery . |
| 21 | Over one year , a £10 a month investment would be worth a respectable £143.26 now , if it could have been placed in the same hypothetical fund . |
| 22 | Andy Roxburgh 's Scots have been placed in the second-draw section , along with Spain , the Soviet Union , Austria , Yugoslavia and Holland . |
| 23 | Andy Roxburgh 's Scots have been placed in the second-draw section , along with Spain , the Soviet Union , Austria , Yugoslavia and Holland . |
| 24 | Notification of the compulsory purchase order has been placed in the public press . |
| 25 | The House of Lords in two subsequent cases has retreated from the position it adopted in the original litigation , by making plain that the Government must prove some damage to the national interest and that no such damage can be established where the information has already been placed in the public domain by being published abroad . |
| 26 | During the hearing Michael Grade , chief executive of Channel Four , said that his company had " been placed in the invidious position of having to choose between breaking the law and putting individual lives in danger " . |
| 27 | Individual replies have , of course , been treated in the strictest confidence , but some of the aggregated results of the survey are summarised below . |
| 28 | She should have been treated in the same way that an older man would be dealt with for corrupting a young girl . |
| 29 | Since April 1989 , people in board-and-lodging accommodation have been treated in the same way as most other recipients of income support . |
| 30 | The faculty denied having discriminated against her and said she had been treated in the same way as all others seeking membership of the bar . |