Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Preamble to the new recommendations acknowledged the changes : " Some important gaps in knowledge have been filled and new issues have emerged to challenge the international community . |
| 2 | Earlier , the Pakistan Times of March 13 had confirmed that another of his sons , Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi , had been dismissed as federal Minister of Communications , reportedly for contacting the government 's political opponents . |
| 3 | On-farm inspection , as practised under the old calf subsidy scheme and which was suggested as a workable substitute by both farmers and auctioneers , had been dismissed as impractical . |
| 4 | Earlier Costa Alegre had been elected as leader of the ruling Party of Democratic Convergence ( PCD ) , replacing Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio who had been dismissed as Prime Minister in April [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 5 | Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading . |
| 6 | Anyone who thought before 1990 that Richard Perle , Ronald Reagan 's ultra-hawkish arms-control man , and Anne Lewis , a political consultant who has been a close ally of Jesse Jackson , would agree on policy towards Iraq would have been dismissed as mad : but they did . |
| 7 | According to Cannistraro , the report had been dismissed as unreliable at the time but now , in the light of the ‘ proven ’ Libyan connection , was the missing link that placed the blame squarely on Gaddafi . |
| 8 | Gen. V. Dovgan , a senior military-industrial administrator , had been dismissed and stripped of his rank after it had been revealed that he informally approved the sale of the tanks to ANT , and Deputy Aviation Industry Minister Anatoly Bratukhin had been dismissed for gross violation of arms export regulations . |
| 9 | The C. and A.G. , after satisfying himself that the vouchers have been examined and certified as correct by the accounting department , may , in his discretion and having regard to the character of the departmental examination , in any particular case admit the sum so certified without further evidence of payment in support of the charges to which they relate … ‘ |
| 10 | A number of quartz-carbonate veins bearing copper , zinc , lead , silver and gold have been examined and massive volcanogenic sulphide mineralisation has been confirmed . |
| 11 | Subsidence Claims Advice leaflet ( PC17 ) should be issued to policyholders in every case where a subsidence claim has been intimated as this will forewarn the insured of the procedures and timescales likely to be involved . |
| 12 | To explain these associations it has been hypothesised that dietary fat increases the colonic concentrations of soluble free fatty acids and secondary bile acids . |
| 13 | It has been hypothesised that this characteristic is due to extra chromosomal material in the X chromosome as compared with the Y chromosome . |
| 14 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 15 | Two other girls had been grazed and bruised , and were obviously suffering from shock . |
| 16 | A 20 kiloton bomb killed 1 million people and many thousands would have been blinded while more would suffer cancer , leukaemia and various other diseases caused by this gross destruction . |
| 17 | These may not have constituted bases in the fullest sense nor been intended as permanent strategic installations , but Western statesmen have focussed on their potential and the capabilities they give the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | In an intermediate situation where injuries have been sustained but these are not serious , it is again extremely unlikely that the police would pursue an investigation where the wife refuses to co-operate . |
| 19 | She was always there , and she would tell , as she had told so often before , the remarkable story of her Jimmy , who 'd been posted as dead last December and who , six months later , had simply walked into the house , bold as you please , and asked for a cup of tea . |
| 20 | On the other hand , it has been recognized that such concessions can , if applied fairly and without discrimination , aid the efficient administration of the tax system . |
| 21 | It was standard procedure for such conglomerates to collect contemporary art , now that it had been recognized that such art was plentiful , reasonably affordable , and able to yield substantial returns . |
| 22 | It has long been recognized that five factors control the nature of soil development : climate , parent material , topoy , organic activity and time . |
| 23 | It had long been recognized that many species are protected from predators by colouring that provides camouflage . |
| 24 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 25 | In most countries , governments have accepted an increasing role in regulating health , safety , and quality standards because it has been recognized that this is a potentially important area of market failure . |
| 26 | Recently , however , it has also been recognized that surface-water hydrology and climate variations can influence the evolution of individual silicic caldera-hosted geothermal systems , although it is difficult to judge the general importance of such effects in controlling the long-term behaviour of continental geothermal systems . |
| 27 | There are many advantages to having a care manager , ‘ someone in charge out there ’ , and this has long been recognized as essential , although in the past this recognition has not been focused on as closely as under the current care management system . |
| 28 | Essentially concerned with a comparative evaluation of inputs and outputs ( see Chapter 1 ) , performance measurement has long been recognized as important within Whitehall . |
| 29 | The concept of risk has been recognized as important in so far as older people have been defined as dependent or vulnerable ( Stevenson , 1989 ) but there has been little systematic analysis of risk , risk-tolerance and risk-management in relation to older people ( for a discussion of issues , see Norman , 1979 ) . |
| 30 | As the foregoing brief chronology has demonstrated , which Councils have been recognized as ecumenical is far more arbitrary than is acknowledged by the bland words of the current Code . |