Example sentences of "[noun] been [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal . |
| 2 | Tonks has for months been juggling the possibility of an All Black tour to South Africa next year — something close to his heart — but was aware that the continuing divisions between the rugby groups in the Republic made such a tour impossible . |
| 3 | An innkeeper has a lien for his charges upon the traveller 's goods brought to the inn , and , contrary to the usual rule , has by statute been given a power of sale over such goods . |
| 4 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 5 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 6 | A fellow Sinn Fein councillor , Joe Austin , said the attack might not have happened had Mr McGuigan been allowed a licence for a gun to use for his personal protection . |
| 7 | It was his luck that the Colonel had that morning been sent a report prepared by the Ministry of Transport and Aviation in conjunction with the Ministry of Finance . |
| 8 | I want a fag that 's no' been given a doin' . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , they did not forget the main object of their expedition and kept a careful record of all the plants found , though they commented that had the journey been made a month or two sooner , they would have found a greater number of rarities . |
| 10 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 11 | And just how long had Janine been beating the child ? |
| 12 | He says that he 's nt been offered a grant , and the case has been refered to higher officials . |
| 13 | Other satellite services have for some time been offering a kind of one-sided videoconferencing facility . |
| 14 | The AHA had in fact been debating the issue of the future of the hospital for some years . |
| 15 | Bruce had in fact been contemplating a withdrawal to the hills rather than risk a head-on clash with forces which so visibly outnumbered his own . |
| 16 | Had n't Clare been repairing a greenhouse when she fell ? |
| 17 | Not surprisingly the Germans would accept this , they had proposed it when the Commission had by turns been denying the existence of damage in West Germany and demanding proof based on a single pollutant ( rather than multiple stress ) . |