Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] shown " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door . |
| 2 | Perhaps she had ; but there was nothing mad about the composed face I 'd been shown in the portrait and the photograph , only an infinity of patience . |
| 3 | As Clare went out Carolyn quickly and unexpectedly closed the door behind her and said ’ Thankyou , ’ as if she 'd been shown her hotel room by a maid . |
| 4 | Terry McLaughlin , its deputy editor , said he had been shown sensitive and detailed files by a representative of the ‘ Inner Circle ’ . |
| 5 | Terry McLaughlin , its deputy editor , said he had been shown sensitive and detailed files , including ‘ top secret ’ material , by a representative of the ‘ Inner Circle ’ . |
| 6 | Mr Justice Jowitt told the jury that previously it had been shown in cases of alleged sexual misconduct that women may be tempted to exaggerate or fabricate . |
| 7 | Labour frontbenchers said they had been shown a note written by Sir Terence Heiser , Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment , to Nicholas Ridley , the then Secretary of State . |
| 8 | Gordon Brown , Labour 's shadow to the Treasury chief secretary , said yesterday that he and Jack Cunningham , Labour 's environment spokesman , had been shown additional internal Government papers which proved that the Conservative Party had asked the Treasury and individual departments to cost Labour 's policy review according to Tory Central Office assumptions . |
| 9 | Mr Brown refused to say how the papers had been shown to him or to disclose their further contents . |
| 10 | As a military exercise , however , many gaps in British naval and air provision had been shown up ; but it was a spectacular triumph , the first that Britain had known since the 1950s . |
| 11 | Nathan turned the conversation to the bear trap in the museum , asking Odd-Knut if he had seen it , and soon we were talking about the killing of film on seal killing had been shown , an indictment of the Norwegian sealers . |
| 12 | The rigidity and over-centralisation had been shown in the nurses ' pay regrading exercise , which had been worth ‘ nought out of 10 — useless ’ . |
| 13 | Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals . |
| 14 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 15 | Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals . |
| 16 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 17 | Admiral Mountbatten and Professor Zuckerman had visited the United States in the autumn of 1959 and had been shown the massive underground silos of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles , and had concluded , quite rightly , that Britain had neither the resources nor the need to enter the land-based ICBM league . |
| 18 | He had been picked out at an identification parade only after his photograph had been shown to the prosecution witnesses — three criminals who got shorter sentences for helping the police . |
| 19 | Once the royal family had been shown as human beings it was impossible to stop the media treating them as such . |
| 20 | Wild horses would scarcely drag this plan out of him at the hearings , even though all he had been shown was a wall map of Central America : nothing classified , no black programmes , no code words . |
| 21 | The Dental News newsletter , issued by the Princeton Dental Resource Centre , based in New Jersey and picked up by dental patients in waiting rooms all over America suggested that an ingredient of cocoa , tannin , had been shown to inhibit the formation of plaque on the teeth , therefore helping stop cavities . |
| 22 | MI6 also had advance warning of the German plan to invade the Low Countries in May 1940 but decided the maps it had been shown were forgeries and again ignored the information . |
| 23 | The Canadian authorities , in the meantime , asked for forty-five cuts to be made , which Nicholson refused to do , and so by the end of 1971 the film had been shown only in selected cinemas in America and even there , the reaction had been mixed . |
| 24 | Then he turned to his son and told him to sing fandangos in the way he had been shown . |
| 25 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 26 | Jesus once said that those who had been shown the greatest mercy by God were the ones who loved him the most . |
| 27 | That there were chemically different gases had been shown earlier in the 18th century . |
| 28 | The test of outrage was also considered , and was countered by evidence that in the two years from July 1973 to June 1975 , the film had been shown in 475 cinemas before an audience of approximately one and a half million people without a single complaint to the police or any local authorities until the present case . |
| 29 | She had refused to be parted from it , and leniency had been shown during her first few days in new surroundings . |
| 30 | What level of negligence had been shown by the authorities ? |