"has been strapped" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is the present perfect tense of the verb "strap" and can be used to describe an action that started in the past and is still ongoing in the present. Example: The patient has been strapped to the stretcher for safety during transportation to the hospital.
A spiked collar has been strapped around every electricity pole to prevent climbers reaching the cables.
The prime minister is also increasingly exasperated by the fiscal straitjacket into which he has been strapped by Mr Tremonti's austerity.
Sarah Lawrence has been strapped for cash ever since its founding in 1926 by William Van Duzer Lawrence (he named the school after his wife, Sarah).
Meanwhile, an intellectually disabled Aboriginal man has been strapped to a restraint chair in an Alice Springs prison 17 times since 2012, the ABC reports.
Senior partner and city legend Denny Crane (Shatner) has been strapped with explosives and forced at gunpoint to recreate his first big murder trial.
He said that he had agreed to write the book as a way of raising money for WikiLeaks — which has been strapped for cash after the publication of 250,000 diplomatic cables led several major banks and payment services to stop working with the group — and he defended his co-author, Andrew O'Hagan.
His attitude has been "strap me on and fire the engine.
Whether it has been strapping football shoulder pads on his players for rebounding drills or taking them to watch Saban's practices, Izzo has done his best work incorporating football tactics into his basketball philosophy.
Wings have been strapped to a little dog, in the sky.
She had been strapped to a stroller and left to sleep there.
Plastic goggles covered in gray electrical tape had been strapped across their faces; noise-muffling headphones enveloped their ears.
