Example sentences of "been [verb] for [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added that Miss Owen had been sacked for asking the elderly residents their views about another member of staff . |
| 2 | Appropriate methodology has been developed for examining the historical tracking performance of large-scale macroeconometric models which contain model-consistent expectations and this now enables attention to be focused upon historical counter-factual experiments , paying particular attention to the treatment of policy in such exercises . |
| 3 | The division on the Determination of Needs Bill debate in February 1941 was reprinted from Hansard , citing all 173 who had voted for the continuance of means calculations together with the ‘ sincere few ’ ( nineteen ) who had been carpeted for defying the Labour whip . |
| 4 | Tight German recycling laws had been blamed for encouraging the illegal disposal of waste in neighbouring countries . |
| 5 | RTZ 's Tinto Holdings Canada Ltd subsidiary has a controlling interest in a company which mines uranium at Elliot Lake , Ontario , which has been blamed for destroying the fishing-based economy of the local Anishnabe Indians . |
| 6 | As far as total dust veil is concerned , it seems to be roughly the same size as the veil from the Agung eruption , which has been blamed for cooling the northern hemisphere by about 0.3 °C in the mid-1960s.There is one key difference , though : El Chichón 's eruption occurred in the northern hemisphere , Agung 's in the south . |
| 7 | 1–9 Great preparations had been made for observing the total eclipse of the moon but owing to thick cloud only the last of it was seen . |
| 8 | After she had been arrested for playing the two-backed beast with Culpepper — and me , though I was n't caught , but there again that 's another tale — the king 's guards came to take her whilst she was staying at Hampton Court . |
| 9 | There were , he said , currently only 3,850 people serving sentences in prisons and re-education centres for all types of offences ( roughly 1.2 per 1,000 population ) ; of these 83 had been convicted for attempting the violent overthrow of the state , the most serious political offence . |