Example sentences of "been [vb pp] or [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but what we would say at this stage , is that there does n't seem any rationale behind the discounts that have been applied by by the County Council , indeed we have a situation in Hambleton district , where there is a seventy percent discount , erm which does n't seem to us to have been explained or justified . |
| 2 | There is no requirement that such serious results should have been foreseen or foreseeable , so long as D was trying to prevent an arrest . |
| 3 | Although languages or local inflections may have been disguised or distorted , the traveller can often catch a resonance of the most influential peoples in a region through its place names . |
| 4 | Not because he 'd been provoked or excited ; on the contrary , it had happened because he 'd allowed himself to relax , to lessen his control and to become open and vulnerable . |
| 5 | So far this year 21 horses have been slashed or mutilated . |
| 6 | In addition 60,000 operations had been cancelled or postponed and 75,000 outpatient appointments had been cancelled . |
| 7 | A " producer " , under s1(2) , is defined as : ( a ) the person who manufactured it ; ( b ) in the case of a substance which has not been manufactured but has been won or abstracted , the person who won or abstracted , the person who won or abstracted it ; ( c ) in the case of a product which has not been manufactured , won or abstracted but essential characteristics of which are attributable to an industrial or other process having been carried out ( for example , in relation to agricultural produce ) , the person who carried out that process … |
| 8 | There had been rich Christians before the time of Constantine , there had been educated or upper-class people to be found in Christian communities , and in growing numbers during the century before Constantine . |
| 9 | He said the council chamber in Middlesbrough town hall or Teesside Polytechnic could have been considered or public buildings in one of the districts . |
| 10 | An occasional man or woman who had been stabbed or beaten or strangled but who , far more often than not , had simply gone without food for a week or two , and given up . |
| 11 | He said rehabilitation , resettlement , retraining and grant aid were all integral parts of the service offered by the Legion , often after service personnel had been injured or disabled . |
| 12 | and er as often as not they were ladies who had been separated or divorced and er they had all , a lot of sort of marital problems and it became almost a , a we welfare of job |
| 13 | The dialectic of apparent antitheses has been suppressed in favour of a one-dimensional model of what design is ; depending on the format of precise models one of the antitheses has been subsumed or repressed under the aegis of the other . |
| 14 | For a long period he seems to have been disturbed or disgusted by female sexuality , particularly as it was embodied in his wife , and to have established relationships with women in which the dominant note was one of camaraderie not unmixed with his desire for comfort or protection . |
| 15 | The place looked fortified , not as a grim walled castle but impregnable all the same , with thick walls and , in the centre of the square , unornamented two-storey building , a stocky tower from which arrows or muskets might have been shot or red-hot ploughshares hurled down on invaders . |
| 16 | On the day of his appointment an amnesty was granted to 258 prisoners who had been accused or convicted of political crimes under the country 's draconian National Security Law . |
| 17 | The amount of money paid out depended on how many hours , days or weeks a prisoner had been helped or sheltered for . |
| 18 | It is unlikely that the JCC knows of all the instances in which either Advisory Appointments Committee procedures have been bypassed or inappropriate non-consultant career grade appointments have been made . |
| 19 | Education standards had deteriorated to such an extent by 1997 that Billy Johnson could n't work out whether he had been born a day too early or too late to vote , or whether his birth had been induced or retarded . |
| 20 | I knew that there had to be a wound : she had not been drowned or strangled or poisoned . |
| 21 | I know that in the mundane , the thought of never having been understood or recognised rankles ; but the transcendent joy is the greater and I get instead the hidden flowers of sorrow of my own soul with their scent and their beauty . |
| 22 | This approach is based on follow-up work to a project on protection of children thought to have been abused or neglected and on empirical studies of the effects of divorce on family income , published 1986 by OUP under the title of ‘ Maintenance after Divorce ’ and para-legal decision-making on divorce . |
| 23 | Affected farmers will learn then if O Ps have been reprieved or banned . |
| 24 | Most of the early London Board schools have been replaced or altered and most of those which survive remain in use as schools . |
| 25 | Experience with previous legislation framed in similar terms showed that the courts in practice were often prepared to dispense with the evidence of a ‘ victim , ’ and accepted instead the word of a complainant ( usually a policeman ) that the victim appeared to have been harassed or annoyed . |
| 26 | But for language users , the rules become an issue only when communication breaks down , and even then , language can remain effective communication long after rules have been bent or broken . |
| 27 | Most of the money would have been spent or committed . |
| 28 | Now in a Paris suburb , most of the church has been restored or rebuilt , but part of the original choir exists , while the reconstructed west front still shows the early mixture of round and pointed arch heads . |
| 29 | Many of the old houses have been enlarged or improved , but historically are very interesting . |
| 30 | Royal favourites had been impeached ; taxation had been refused or stringent conditions attached to its granting . |