Example sentences of "been [vb pp] for [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a subscriber to Marxism Today , Robyn had suffered occasional qualms of guilt because she did n't cycle to work instead of driving , but she had never been attacked for owning a foreign car before . |
| 2 | He has been fined for exposing a wrong that England and Pakistan seemed happier keeping under the carpet . |
| 3 | He 'd been fined for having a dangerous vehicle . |
| 4 | The 50-year-old , winner of 61 tournaments worldwide , said that his interpretation of the rules was that he should have been disqualified for signing an incorrect score card . |
| 5 | 260 troubadours , tap-dancers and persons with flutes , sheet music and accompanying ghetto-blasters fall foul of this law every year-though no one has as yet been prosecuted for playing an irksome Walkman-zzzsssss zzzsssss-on a train , and , evidently , the ruling does not apply to the operators of the Underground themselves . |
| 6 | 1993 itself will undoubtedly be equally as difficult a year in many ways at 1992 but we are better equipped now that new foundations have been laid for building an effective and successful engineering and construction consultancy business for the nineties . |
| 7 | This concluded that ‘ not only is there sufficient land for building another 250,000 dwellings [ in the study area ] over the next five years , but already capacity has been identified for building an additional 117,000 dwellings after five years ’ . |
| 8 | THE Welsh National Opera company — Princess Di 's favourite — has been slammed for using a naked woman in performance posters . |
| 9 | A film about an estate agency specially set up for squatters has been criticised for promoting an unacceptable activity . |
| 10 | Two directors of Britain 's largest independent toy company have been jailed for masterminding an eight million pounds fraud . |