Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 In peephological terms , the voters have been fed large doses of medicine for the past month .
2 But more recently banks have been providing other forms of merger funding-'mezzanine debt' , which does not rate as highly in terms of claims against the company 's assets , but provides additional financial resources .
3 Also present , and hoping to apply for membership in due course , were representatives from the Shoreham Aviation Heritage Trust , who have been given 75 acres of land at historic Shoreham Airport to develop into a museum .
4 Thousands of people who suffer from long-sightedness , have been given new hope of improving their vision , thanks to a new laser technique .
5 And it says You have been given one injection of tetanus vaccine absorbed and another of tetanus antitoxin .
6 Along with that , although solicitors have been given limited rights of audience in the courts , seriously complex cases still require specialised counsel and these are in short supply : ‘ You only need one Piper Alpha inquiry and they 'll be tied up for months ’ , he said .
7 We have been given full details of who is attending , where the various ceremonies are being staged and at what time .
8 SSDs have been given another set of community care priorities .
9 have been given written notice of this order at their residence or place of business within the jurisdiction , and
10 The sleazy sell which accompanies the three-page advert points to those who have been given large sums of money shortly after acquiring their cross .
11 Of the 69 coarse ware vessels described in this Report , only 12 have been given any indication of date and most of these refer to Wroxeter and Newstead parallels .
12 gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription .
13 In recent years the seedsmen and the chemical companies ( the latter are rapidly taking over the former ) have been producing new varieties of hybrid seeds , fertilizers , herbicides , pesticides , and fungicides , which together have made continuous monocropping feasible .
14 Many critics of the encouragement provided until recently by the UK 's investment grants system in LFAs argue that farmers have been converting increasing areas of moorland and roughland to grass leys ( attracting substantial grants and more HLCAs ) while neglecting pastures previously improved and not maintaining standards of husbandry and land management .
15 The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students .
16 They have been paying ridiculous rents of up to DM120 for the little decent office space that now exists in eastern Berlin — about twice as much as they would pay for similar space in the western part of the city .
17 MORE than half a million children have been spared three hours of national curriculum maths tests today .
18 Volunteers at the centre have been videoing this pair of kingfishers and so far it looks as though the experiment is a success .
19 ‘ We have been putting 150 years of empirical behaviour onto one program so there have been inevitable delays , ’ he said .
20 Furthermore , a variety of indicators , including capacity utilisation and vacancies , have been giving clear signs of inflationary pressure in the economy for some time .
21 Throughout its production , prospective 46 owners have been offered varied combinations of up to five rig and keel options and three accommodation layouts , therefore ensuring the brokerage buyer tremendous choice in the specification of his pre-owned 46 .
22 Satellite station BSkyB have been advertising live coverage of the Charity Shield fixture between League champions Leeds and Cup-holders Liverpool at Wembley .
23 FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England .
24 For months , American executives have been reviewing all aspects of the airline for cost savings .
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