Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases where the lis had not yet been joined the applicant was less successful . |
| 2 | Gould had only a couple of weeks to spare here ( he had been delayed a week in Maitland on the lower reaches of the Hunter while he waited to meet up with Stephen Coxen ) , having promised Eliza to forsake his desire to continue collecting , and to return in time for the delivery of their child . |
| 3 | This book , which might as easily have been entitled The Triumph of Realism , might equally have been subtitled The Return of the Native . |
| 4 | It had been posted the day they left for Algeria . |
| 5 | After any other party has been heard the judge should give his formal ruling . |
| 6 | WE may have been leaked a world exclusive , incidentally , about a split in the Monster Raving Loonies ( for whom , incidentally , Screaming Lord Sutch is standing in three different seats . ) |
| 7 | In recognition of their magnanimity , the original Beaux-Arts portion of the museum has been christened the Tanenbaum Centre of European Art . |
| 8 | It has been christened the Ecotec V6 ( emission , consumption , optimisation and technology ) because of its compactness , economy and cleanness . |
| 9 | They point out that disenchantment has been swollen no doubt by recent events such as the surge in unemployment past the three million mark , the murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool and even the February weather . |
| 10 | A sheet had been spread out on the ground , and around it had been placed a square of long hard bolsters . |
| 11 | The words and figures must agree , if either has been altered the alteration must be signed by the drawer . |
| 12 | The child becomes conditioned to dislike food and even when the disorder has been treated the child will continue to avoid food because of past experience . |
| 13 | The undefeated Chicago Bears , who beat the powerful Philadelphia Eagles last week , had to deal only with the paltry Tampa Bay Buccaneers , who had been crushed the week before . |
| 14 | When Hughes , who had been cheered every time he warmed up , was brought on with United 2-1 down , Ferguson again incurred the crowd 's wrath by bringing off Sharpe , who like all United 's young players is popular with the supporters . |
| 15 | The mother — who believes she passed on her 50-a-day habit to the girl while she was pregnant — revealed that Cherie had been diagnosed a nicotine addict by a doctor . |
| 16 | An ambassador could still expect , at the end of his mission , to receive from the ruler to whom he had been accredited a farewell present which was often , particularly for special ambassadors of high social rank , of considerable value . |
| 17 | Mayor 's chaplain Tony Rees was furious he had n't been refunded a £187 overpayment . |
| 18 | For example , by the time the Mekong had been drained the excavations were comparable to the construction of the Panama canal and in the sixty years before the Second World War there were 4½ m. acres of new land brought into cultivation and correspondingly prodigious increases in the exports of rice . |
| 19 | This had been arranged the day before . |
| 20 | Once the application has been registered the court fee can not be refunded . |
| 21 | An improvement on this basic design was to use a lightweight but rigid rotating rod on which to mount the magnet and mirror , and attach a coil spring at one end , so that once any change in potential difference had been registered the mirror would swing back to its original position . |
| 22 | Modern theories of water structure centre on computer-simulation models from which has been developed a concept which is similar to the DNA model just discussed , the concept of cellular automata . |
| 23 | Wonford House Hospital continued to be used for acute and rehabilitation services and though a mental health centre at Tiverton has been developed the schism between the old and the new has not been so marked . |
| 24 | He was told he had been given every opportunity to pay , and was jailed for 32 days . |
| 25 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
| 26 | He throws me out anyway , a bad influence , a bad example , coming from the kind of home I did , I should know better , I 'd been given every chance . |
| 27 | ‘ People have been given every chance to make payment in full or to make an arrangement to pay , but it seems as though there is a hard core who do not want to pay . ’ |
| 28 | Then the Bank revealed that its governor had been given a 17% salary rise last year . |
| 29 | Turtle breeding beaches in western Cyprus have been given a breathing space by the decision of the government to freeze development in the area for one year . |
| 30 | The first one relates to the child who broke into my car , I wo n't call him a child he 's a bloody toerag as far as I 'm concerned , who broke into my car has been given a caution , a bloody caution . |