Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 2 | He has since been granted temporary leave to stay in Britain . |
| 3 | And the Trust has just been awarded six-figure funding from the International Fund for Ireland ( IFI ) for a new block at Glebe House . |
| 4 | Although the tail of this aircraft is still camouflaged. the rest of it has already been painted blue overall . |
| 5 | Mr Saunders has already been granted legal aid of up to £275,000 to defend himself against fraud charges in the criminal courts , but he may have to pay whole or part of that money back if the trial judge so decides . |
| 6 | gold has always been given special status by most civilisations and is therefore widely accepted ; |
| 7 | Dr Richard Scorgie , whose mother , Peggy , lives in Flora Avenue , is a consultant in geriatric medicine at Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen ; he has also been appointed associate unit general manager ( medical administration ) and vice-chairman of the unit management board . |
| 8 | Gas has also been given favoured status , supposedly to help Britain to meet its modest sulphur reduction targets . |
| 9 | English Blind Golf has now been granted official charity status . |
| 10 | Well , the Doc Marten has now been granted official recognition — it 's one of the words making its debut in the new Shorter Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 11 | Joan Daniels has now been appointed Honorary Treasurer of the Medau Society and we wish her the best of luck in balancing the books — figuratively speaking ! |
| 12 | In Australia , where compensation claims have rocketed , RSI has even been nicknamed myalgic compensationitis . |
| 13 | A restructuring is under way — John McIntyre , vice-president of European Operations has gone , and Europe is now being split into two : the UK , where Engels has recently been appointed managing director , and the continent , where Terry Hall is coming in from the Australian operation to take charge . |
| 14 | He has recently been appointed Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre , while maintaining his work for Cheek by Jowl . |
| 15 | Andrew Pinnock is an Arts Council Music Officer ( early music is his specialist field ) , and has recently been appointed Artistic Administrator to the Purcell Tercentenary Trust . |
| 16 | Stuart Caughey of Rolls Wood Group [ Repair and Overhauls ] repair division has recently been awarded Junior Chamber Aberdeen 's Sillerton Quaich for being its best new member . |
| 17 | Mr Mellor has never been given proper credit for showing sufficient resolution during the passage of the Broadcasting Bill to persuade his colleagues that ITV deserved to have its future determined by something more subtle than a contest to see who could stuff the most pound notes into a brown envelope earmarked for the Treasury . |
| 18 | Rupert , who 'd just been appointed Tory Minister for Sport , eyed Mrs Sherwood back . |
| 19 | On 23 February 1993 , Mr. J. A. Hogan was appointed a director of the Company having previously been appointed Chief Operating Officer . |
| 20 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 21 | Proposals by Dr Robert Rentoul for the compulsory sterilization of the unfit had already been given short shrift by the BMA in 1904 , on the grounds that they were contrary to medical ethics . |
| 22 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 23 | Mr McFadyen said : ‘ We 've already been pledged financial support by several organisations if we can get part of the old school building as a community centre . ’ |
| 24 | An English writer who went into self-exile just when Pound and Lawrence did , Ford Madox Ford , had always been denied serious consideration ( as he is denied it still ) , in part for having , in No More Parades at the end of a previous war , envisaged the England he was leaving in just such manorial terms : and if the Englishman could not be forgiven , how forgive the American ? |
| 25 | Lily and the boy were standing by an old iron playhorse which had once been painted dark green but now was blotched with rust . |
| 26 | It had also been granted Special Development Orders by the government in order to bypass planning permission for its investigations . |
| 27 | Unlike previous texts , this book made an unreserved attempt to show how the phenomena of physical geography could be rationalized and perhaps given new significance and new coherence in terms of systems theory , and ‘ by avoiding the usual pot pourri of information about the earth and its atmosphere which had traditionally been termed physical geography ’ it was devoted to the identification and analysis of some of the more important systematic relationships with which modern physical geographers are concerned . |
| 28 | Patients who had initially been given chenodeyxholic acid as dissolution treatment had a significantly lower recurrence rate than those who had been treated , originally , with ursodeoxycholic acid ( 17.8 ( 5.8 ) % at 42 months by LTA compared with 67.1 ( 16.4 ) % ; p<0.05 ) . |
| 29 | Some reports suggested that the invasion was supported by large numbers of the estimated 400,000 Palestinian workers in Kuwait , all of whom had previously been denied Kuwaiti citizenship despite constituting the backbone of the country 's middle-management structure . |
| 30 | He was chairman of the Friends of Glenalmond and , having been a strong supporter of the Territorial Army , had recently been appointed Honorary Colonel of 32 ( Scottish ) Signal Regiment ( V ) . |