Example sentences of "been [verb] for [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official newspaper of the Communist Youth League had reportedly been criticized for publishing investigative reports against party orders , and its editors had been threatened with a period in the country . |
| 2 | The relatively puny father-of-three could have been forgiven for having second thoughts when he was picked . |
| 3 | This is important because specific mechanisms have since been developed for subsidizing private operations in the inner area , but it should also be noted that all inner-area housing sites were already designated as housing land and there were no ‘ change of use ’ profits to be made on them . |
| 4 | Gen. Ricardo Contreras , head of the Army Intelligence Battalion ( BIE ) which in September had been exposed for tapping civilian telephones [ see p. 39092 ] . |
| 5 | And er I think , I I agree , I agree with a lot of the demands that feminist women have made but , to kind of congregate it in that way , it 's bu , I mean a lot of wha er , white feminists have been attacked for excluding black women , and that 's one of the examples where you know , to be , to say that you 're a feminist , it 's not just men that you 're alienating , you 're also alienating other way . |
| 6 | So some of the sulphur which has been blamed for causing environmental problems , may before long emerge in the form of ‘ Andricite , ’ plaster and wall-boards in our houses — courtesy of ICI . |
| 7 | The movement was particularly strong in the north-eastern town of Suceava where it claimed credit for the closure in February of the local cellulose fabric plant , whose carbon disulphide emissions had been blamed for causing nervous disorders . |
| 8 | And since the factory opened , Rajinder Anand has been fined for distributing large numbers of counterfeit audio-cassette tapes . |
| 9 | A case has also been made for using educational variables as an alternative . |
| 10 | It is conceivable that if an agreement had been signed and if henceforth Anglo-American relations had been bathed in sweetness and light , arrangements might have been made for pooling atomic weapons production . |
| 11 | A REGIONAL councillor has been censured for removing three sets of keys from a district council 's offices . |
| 12 | Various reasons have been advanced for recognizing qualified defences to murder . |
| 13 | Up to now , the manufacturers had not been accounting for dismantling personal computers in their construction , so it 's still a very difficult process . |
| 14 | The phosphoinositide signalling pathway has been adapted for detecting external cues by invertebrate photoreceptors , olfactory sense organs in insects , lobsters and fish , and in certain mammalian taste cells . |
| 15 | In Indonesia , two soldiers have been arrested for stealing three tons of smuggled garlic ! |
| 16 | He 'd been criticised for selecting amateur crews — some said it was too tough for office workers , bakers and bank clerks . |
| 17 | A WOMAN deputy sheriff has been fired for fondling male colleagues and talking dirty to them . |