Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legal moves have begun to evict thousands of travellers who 've been holding an illegal festival at a beauty spot for the past five days . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 've been reading an interview in Groundswell where Johnny Boy says that he 's misunderstood and really he 's got a heart of gold . ’ |
| 3 | 17 You 've been given an award for your services to natural history . |
| 4 | Erm we 've been given an allocation er in this er in these alterations of twenty five hectares . |
| 5 | You 've been given an invitation to the most magnificent show in the world . |
| 6 | You 've been given an invitation to fall in love . |
| 7 | And you know I 've been sitting an hour . |
| 8 | ‘ I had this anonymous tip-off about a man answering your description , the caller said something about a missing member of the aristocracy , so I 've been keeping an eye on things . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been keeping an eye open for you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been waiting an hour , ’ I said . |
| 11 | I 'm 30 and I 've been having an affair for the past five years . |
| 12 | At this school in Oxford they 've been running an arts week , helping the children to write their own play and make the scenery . |
| 13 | I 've been consulting an astrologer , she thought . |
| 14 | I 've been burping an awful lot , in my stomach . |
| 15 | I would wish to express my very great anguish to all those women concerned if I have been taught an inadequate technique , ’ she said . |
| 16 | In the last year we have been developing an occasional series to respond to this demand — the Survivors ' Guide . |
| 17 | In Swindon 's council parks and gardens , ponds in hot houses have been accumulating an unwanted collection of the American reptiles ; large and small . |
| 18 | The legal opinion obtained by CPRE and the Council for National Parks from Professor Francis Jacobs , one of the leading authorities on EEC law , makes it clear that both MAFF and DoE have been taking an unduly restrictive view in adopting their stance . |
| 19 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 20 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 21 | ‘ You will probably have realised that , due to an administrative error in our payroll section , you have been given an extra day 's pay … instead of having a day 's pay deducted . ’ |
| 22 | You may , for example , have been given an assignment to do on the organisation of a business . |
| 23 | Since 1970 they have been given an allowance for secretarial and research assistance . |
| 24 | In both cases you have been given an explicit and specific purpose and your notes should be deter-mined by this task . |
| 25 | EFFORTS to revitalise a hard-hit housing estate in Darlington have been given an unexpected financial boost . |
| 26 | It is worth noting that although the product is only just released commercially I have been using an ‘ engineering ’ version on the PC for some two months while the actual review tests were done on a genuine US release version . |
| 27 | At Tyrone County Hospital in Omagh surgeons have been using an advanced laser — the only one of its kind in Northern Ireland — to perform tonsillectomies and sinus surgery . |
| 28 | Now the handful of survivors have been made an offer they can not refuse : a last chance to surrender and march out , still beneath the banner of Modernism , straight into the arms of the museum culture — not as prisoners , but as co-belligerents . |
| 29 | THE administrators of Maxwell Communication Corporation have been granted an extra two months by the American courts to prepare a reconstruction plan for the company . |
| 30 | The importance of the BBFC has been enhanced in recent years by local licensing requirements for sex cinemas , which generally require that all films screened shall have been approved by the BBFC in its " adult " category , and by the rule that cable television companies and video shops shall only carry films which have been granted an appropriate BBFC certificate . |