Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , by the time the Mekong had been drained the excavations were comparable to the construction of the Panama canal and in the sixty years before the Second World War there were 4½ m. acres of new land brought into cultivation and correspondingly prodigious increases in the exports of rice . |
| 2 | This is simply watching the patient who has been given the medicines . |
| 3 | The verses seem to be saying that the disciples understand because they have been given the secrets of the mystery of the kingdom but everybody else is taught in parables so that it will confuse them and prevent them coming into the kingdom . |
| 4 | Whoever had lived here had been given the remnants of used candles and had melted the stubs down to make a crude light . |
| 5 | It is difficult to question the Minister when we have not been given the figures . |
| 6 | When the process is complete , the outgoing prime minister goes straight to the Palace and formally tenders his resignation ; the most he needs to do is inform the monarch , who will have been given the figures already , that the ballot has produced a given result , probably adding that in his view the newly elected leader can command a majority in Parliament . |
| 7 | ( 9 ) For the purpose of ensuring that a transfer of Shares is duly authorised hereunder or that no circumstances have arisen whereby the Directors are empowered to require that a Transfer Notice be given or to resolve that a Transfer Notice be deemed to have been given the Directors may from time to time require any Member or past Member or the legal personal representatives , trustee in bankruptcy , liquidator , administrator or administrative receiver of any Member or any person named as transferee in any instrument of transfer lodged for registration to furnish to the Company such information and evidence as the Directors may think fit regarding any matter which they may deem relevant to such purpose . |
| 8 | ( 9 ) For the purpose of ensuring that a transfer of Shares is duly authorised hereunder or that no circumstances have arisen whereby the Directors are empowered to require that a Transfer Notice be given or to resolve that a Transfer Notice be deemed to have been given the Directors may from time to time require any Member or past Member or the legal personal representatives , trustee in bankruptcy , liquidator , administrator or administrative receiver of any Member or any person named as transferee in any instrument of transfer lodged for registration to furnish to the Company such information and evidence as the Directors may think fit regarding any matter which they may deem relevant to such purpose . |
| 9 | If the Pritchetts had n't taken me in , I 'd have probably been put in an orphanage and never had the educational advantages or been given the opportunities that have come my way . ’ |
| 10 | It is as if governments , having been given the gifts of technology , set them loose without an idea of how or even a wish to restrain them . |
| 11 | They have been given the names of ‘ the mouse-pounce ’ , ‘ the bird-swat ’ and ‘ the fish-scoop ’ . |
| 12 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 13 | The majority of these children have not been given the tools to function as black people . |
| 14 | Every sales consultant has covered the basics ; they have been given the tools for success ; the Super Sales Grit ingredient takes you to where no sales-person has previously thought to go . |
| 15 | This previously hard-to-find Balearic tribal coaster has now been given the thumbs-up enough to get a bit of a push behind it courtesy of those spicy Power Promotions people , making sure that all the right channels are chosen ( ie , those DJs ) , which is pretty much all you need , really . |
| 16 | The new chart has been given the thumbs up by Food Records Andy Ross , whose acts ( including Blur and Jesus Jones ) are exempt from the current chart . |
| 17 | MOVES to demolish a historic former engine shed near Whitby railway station and to build two blocks of flats and a house on the site have been given the thumbs down by the Department of the Environment . |
| 18 | Most of us know that it is in our best interests to play it — we 've never been taught the lines , but we soon catch on to what we 're supposed to say . |
| 19 | Sometimes , the pharmacist may need to ask why you 've been prescribed the medicines just to clear up any confusion . |
| 20 | Once the check-outs had been completed the pilots and planes moved to Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego where they were put aboard the USS Yorktown for the carrier filming . |
| 21 | Even after the abuses of the Star Chamber had been curbed the magistrates , who in the absence of a police force had some of the functions of a modern juge d'instruction , had power to interrogate the accused before trial . |
| 22 | Even after the abuses of the Star Chamber had been curbed the magistrates , who in the absence of a police force had some of the functions of a modern juge d'instruction , had power to interrogate the accused before trial . ’ |
| 23 | To these uncertainties has now been added the problems of deciding what performance constitutes mastery . |
| 24 | Most people , when they went out at night or approached another village , carried a stick or a handful of stones ; if one or two dogs in a pack had been wounded the others would pick up the aggressive intention and drop back sullenly . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal detected " underlying transactions of a solicitorial nature " and determined that on the expert evidence ( inter alia from a former President of the Law Society ) which had been presented the undertakings given were such as might come within the usual course of a solicitor 's business . |
| 26 | Once this has been done the terms must be put in order of energy . |
| 27 | It has been decided the powers that be , are onto the something that you are going to do your first semester exam in June . |
| 28 | We do not believe , certainly , that if the situation had been different , it would still be true that if the switch had not been flipped the wipers would not have started to work . |
| 29 | After World War two , a lot of people hoped that the we 'll call them the less agreeable characteristics of the German mind , would be changed by the traumatic experiences of the second total defeat in twenty years , physical destruction , national humiliation , embarrassment at having been made the collaborators of nazism and so on . |
| 30 | Many , if not most , good teachers are suffering from fatigue and innovation stress ; almost all teachers in state schools are profoundly resentful at the way that they and their schools have been made the scapegoats for the ills of society . |