Example sentences of "been [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The president himself has quashed rumours that Egypt has been pursuing an Arab peace initiative , and rejected the idea of any ceasefire until the Iraqis have promised to withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 2 | ‘ This Government has been pursuing an energy strategy that was wrong in conception and incompetent in execution . ’ |
| 3 | James had for some time been accepting an annual pension from Elizabeth in return for promises of assistance against foreign invaders — meaning , at this period , Spain — and on the tacit understanding that he would in no way connive at his mother 's return to Scotland . |
| 4 | In Swindon 's council parks and gardens , ponds in hot houses have been accumulating an unwanted collection of the American reptiles ; large and small . |
| 5 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 6 | The importance of being able to reciprocate gifts in kind is also illustrated by case study data from Pahl 's study on household work strategies on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent , in which one man who was long-term unemployed had been helping an uncle to decorate his house , and how the uncle then gave him a large piece of meat . |
| 7 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 8 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |
| 9 | Mick Hardy , Trinity House River Lights Attendant , who is responsible for the seven shore lights along the Thames , has been waging an escalating battle against vandalism which , he says , increases during school holidays . |
| 10 | On May 7 the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry claimed that Armenia had been waging an undeclared war on Azerbaijan , and that in over 300 cross-border attacks since the beginning of the year a total of 61 Azerbaijanis had been killed . |
| 11 | INDIA 'S troubled northern state of Kashmir , where militants have been waging an armed struggle for independence since 1990 , has a new governor . |
| 12 | 11.00am — Tony has been given an appointment at the local hospital . |
| 13 | She had already been given an operation for biliary atresia which is designed to unblock or bypass the blockage leaving scar tissue which is more likely to bleed . |
| 14 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 15 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 16 | The Neath lock Mike Whitson has been given an eight-week ban after being sent off in a Schweppes Cup tie against South Glamorgan Institute . |
| 17 | Mr Marian Calfa is pleading for more time on the grounds that he has been given an even longer list . |
| 18 | The Neath lock Mike Whitson has been given an eight-week ban after being sent off in a Schweppes Cup tie against South Glamorgan Institute . |
| 19 | ‘ You will probably have realised that , due to an administrative error in our payroll section , you have been given an extra day 's pay … instead of having a day 's pay deducted . ’ |
| 20 | Anthony John Allen , aged 23 , of Huyton , Liverpool , was cleared by the appeal judges , along with William Willis , aged 23 , who had been given an 11-year sentence for his alleged part in the attack three years ago on a Southampton publican , his wife , and a barmaid . |
| 21 | He got half-way down the corridor and realized in irritation that he had no idea where she had been given an office . |
| 22 | However , the powerful US tuna industry lobby has made sure that it has been given an annual ‘ dolphin kill' ’ quota . |
| 23 | Once again Saddam Hussein appeared to have been given an 11th-hour chance to stop the slaughter ; once again , the powerful American-led military coalition was crouched , set to pounce . |
| 24 | Moreover , in most cases , the right to re-enter can not be exercised until the tenant has been given an opportunity of making good the breach of covenant . |
| 25 | I have recently been given an electric propagator and am keen to grow lots of plants from seed . |
| 26 | He shaped well when fourth behind Tipping Tim at Cheltenham and appears to have been given an ideal build-up . |
| 27 | To help you choose , each property has been given an Enterprise quality grading . |
| 28 | ( 12 August 1773 ) Later , having been given an extension to his leave by Colloredo , who was himself in Vienna in August , he again wrote : |
| 29 | After St Joan he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ; after his film of Pygmalion he had been given an Oscar . |
| 30 | The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected . |