Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been [vb pp] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the senior clerk in the Chancery , Nigel had been given this assignment as a benefice , a reward for long and faithful service to the Crown . |
| 2 | Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far . |
| 3 | Twenty one years earlier , Franco had been denied this decoration . |
| 4 | He said 90 per cent of the equipment at Al Atheer had been destroyed this week , though the buildings and laboratories , some with three-foot-thick walls , were built to resist attack . |
| 5 | Britain has been denied this freedom because it has never had a truly commercial broadcasting environment . |
| 6 | SO Lennox Lewis has been crowned this country 's first heavyweight champion for almost a century . |
| 7 | Michael had been sent this manuscript by another of his clients , the writer and broadcaster Bryan Magee , who also happened to be Cooper 's MP . |
| 8 | The report says applications to mine at 652 new sites in England and Wales have been made this year . |