Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [been] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power of the Hyksos pharaohs has been broken an the upper and Lower kingdoms once again united . |
| 2 | His eyes had been rubbed a raw red by fatigue and cold and had a harried glitter . |
| 3 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The Iranians have been given a lot of leeway in the hope that they would cease to have a terrorist agenda . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | To test this hypothesis , six methanogenic subjects have been fed a low sulphate diet for 34 days supplemented with sodium sulphate from day 11 to 20 . |
| 12 | ‘ Needless to say , ’ adds our man with the scales of justice , ‘ the remaining frogs have been found a new home by the Tees . ’ |
| 13 | Once the two basic shapes have been created a single point is selected on each object using the blend tool and the program then creates the required number of ‘ in-between ’ stages . |
| 14 | The Council of Science and Technology Institutes has been awarded a contract by the Employment Department to commission a major six-month study into the employment pattern of scientists . |
| 15 | Aid for environmental planning in developing countries has been designated a top priority . |
| 16 | His previous sermons had been pitched a little too high for their comprehension . |
| 17 | Even after peasant representation had been abruptly cut in 1907 , and the nobles had been guaranteed a virtual veto against undesirable peasant candidates , the peasant deputies elected to the Third and Fourth Dumas remained unshakeable on the land question . |
| 18 | Some authorities have issued broad discussion documents ; others have been rather more prescriptive ( in Croydon , for example , parents have been given a checklist of skills against which to evaluate their children . |
| 19 | Parents have been given a bigger role than ever before . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 22 | Langbaurgh pensioners ' free bus passes have been given a reprieve until the end of April . |
| 23 | GIANT-KILLERS Featherstone Rovers have been handed a plum Regal Trophy draw at home to high-flying St Helens . |
| 24 | Her loose silk smock had been raised , while the elastic waistband of her matching trousers had been lowered a few inches so that her pale abdomen , not yet beginning to swell with the new life inside her , was ready to be smeared lightly with the gel that would facilitate the task of finding the tiny heartbeat . |
| 25 | BRITAIN 'S crowded classrooms have been branded a ‘ public disgrace ’ by the ex-head of the National Curriculum Council . |
| 26 | The gymnasium , swimming pool and even classrooms have been given a new lease of life as part of a timeshare development — such facilities having been a positive attraction to buyers . |
| 27 | Now I suppose that kind of model of what goes on in families has been disrupted a bit in the last few years because increasingly people have drawn attention to the way in which um often the person doing the abuse is the most powerful person within that family situation . |
| 28 | Ironically , at the eleventh hour the plight of the belugas has been given a boost by the success of whale-watching cruises in the St Lawrence . |
| 29 | IF THE inflation figures had been published a couple of days earlier , the Labour party would no doubt have made the most of a fall which was far short of expectations . |
| 30 | The organisers have been granted a licence in the face of strong local objections . |