Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When all candidate content words have been assigned a score , use the Student 's t-test ( see Appendix A ) to determine whether the difference between the means of the correct-word scores and the highest-other-word scores is statistically significant . |
| 2 | But the scale of the tragedy exposed by Michael Buerk and his BBC camera crew , and the response it provoked in the no-bullshit , energetic , passionately caring rock musician Bob Geldof meant that old-world attitudes towards the plight of helpless peoples have been given the biggest jolt since the anti-slavery campaigns of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | First , the Velikovskians have been given the chance to make a superficially plausible claim that there is some kind of ‘ orthodox-science ’ vendetta against them and against their master' : they have been able to portray themselves as persecuted martyrs . |
| 4 | It might still be a little premature to consign famous old clubs Nottingham and Rosslyn Park to relegation , but both have been well beaten by a resurgent Bristol — whose youthful side have been setting a blistering pace at the Memorial Ground so far this season — and their other results indicate that they face an uphill struggle to maintain their First Division status . |
| 5 | FOUR Hereford players were sent off yesterday in their 1-1 draw at Northampton — the first time in British history four players from one side have been given the red card . |
| 6 | ‘ The fans have been wanting a new face up front because of our recent goal drought . |
| 7 | ‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ski survey readers have been offered a reduced rate at the Aviemore Highlands , a 4* luxury hotel in the town centre ( with a skibus stop right outside ) . |
| 10 | Four giant cranes have been given a lift ten miles down the River Mersey to start a new life working in the Port of Liverpool . |
| 11 | Journalists have been asking the question since he was , well , 23 . |
| 12 | The Japanese community who live on the reef have been awarded the Peter Scott Merit Award in recognition of the 11 years they have spent fighting the development . |
| 13 | Thirty-two acres of the old Swanage quarries have been designated the Townsend Nature Reserve by the Dorset Naturalists ' Trust . |
| 14 | Some US dairy farming organizations have been urging the FDA to ban BST for some time . |
| 15 | Representatives of the EEC 's technical assistance programme have been promoting the technology in Pacific islands like Fiji and Tonga . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend may have noticed that the Opposition have been floating a similar idea among themselves and discussing again in an internal memorandum the possibility of a luxuries rate of VAT . |
| 18 | The marketing department have been increasing the popularity of Stoddard Templeton products by using incentive promotions . |
| 19 | The major industrial nations have been lowering the energy intensity of their economies since the 1970s ; the degree to which this will continue is central to any energy consumption projection . |
| 20 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't you fucking well know that the enemy have been mortaring the village green for the past four or five minutes while you have been playing those fucking bagpipes ? ’ |
| 22 | George and Tony Sabin have been keeping the streets of Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswolds clean for the past three years . |
| 23 | Crews from four fire stations threatened with closure have been holding a demonstration against the plans . |
| 24 | In the past week any number of interested parties have been granted the 30 second television sound bite in order to voice an opinion or two about the way English should be taught in our schools . |
| 25 | And the worst branches have been given the , the , the stiffer targets to get them up to scratch . |
| 26 | LAURENCEKIRK , Turriff and East Wemyss Branches have been voted the best in Scotland — and the best in Britain — by Royal Bank customers . |
| 27 | Manufacturers have been oiling the wheels of technology to make fryers slicker with the help of computerisation . |
| 28 | ‘ The Iranians have been given a lot of leeway in the hope that they would cease to have a terrorist agenda . |
| 29 | Oil palms have been planted on a large part of the land behind the river and growers have been granted a draft permit to develop plantations along the river banks , the monkeys ' habitat , by the local land authority . |
| 30 | Thus , the published index for April 1985 is no longer a simple Laspeyres index because , since 1974 , the weights have been revised every year . |