Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 14 May 1778 ) In the same letter Mozart informed his father that he had unofficially been offered the post of organist at Versailles which , if he were to accept , would mean spending six months of the year in Versailles and the remaining six months wherever he liked . |
| 2 | In fact in the eighteen nineties , I believe the seeds were being sown , of what has since been called the time obsession of the twentieth century . |
| 3 | Sagarmatha National Park was born in 1976 and has since been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO . |
| 4 | Dr Ian Keeping , who diagnosed TB and has since been treating the doctor , said : ‘ The man stopped work immediately and we set about investigations to establish a diagnosis . |
| 5 | I have since been offered a write-up in one of the car hi-fi magazines about the work on my car and others we have worked on . |
| 6 | are retired so they got no income and then perhaps been left the house |
| 7 | The fact that one in five of the complaints were held to be breaches of the code shows that the tobacco companies have perhaps been treating the committee and the issue in a cavalier way . |
| 8 | But she was floating , up , away , soaring on the strength of his kiss like a bird who had been caged , tethered too long , and had suddenly been given the flight of freedom . |
| 9 | ‘ 'Course I 'ave n't , you 've only been gone a minute . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 11 | The planet had only been recontacted a century earlier . |
| 12 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 13 | This may be an odd thing to say when you 've only been married a month , but it 's true . |
| 14 | He had only been commissioned a week . |
| 15 | Yeah , she 's only been driving a year , two years . |
| 16 | She sent him a memo — the usual form of royal communication — but he replied negatively , arguing that it was n't possible as she had only been doing the job for a short time . |
| 17 | FRANCE 's ruling Socialists had long been expecting the deb∘acle . |
| 18 | Indians had long been demanding the return of sacred relics , and both Stanford University and the University of Minnesota had already agreed to release their collections to Indians . |
| 19 | Instead , having been assured that Rick no longer had any violent feelings towards her , she earnestly pleaded that she had long been awaiting an opportunity to return it in person and apologise for causing so much distress . |
| 20 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 21 | While classics , for example , are considered essentially upper- or upper-middle-class disciplines , engineering ( in this country at any rate ) has long been considered a subject suitable for aspirant working-class men . |
| 22 | The right to demonstrate against unpopular causes has long been considered a bulwark of liberty in any civilised society , enabling groups within that society to attempt to influence public opinion , to express their solidarity , to pressurise government and publicise their cause . |
| 23 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 24 | The children — aged between four weeks and six years — had all been given the drug while under intensive care , a report in yesterday 's British Medical Journal revealed . |
| 25 | The loyalists now had the grounds they needed to be able to argue that the executive was undemocratic : the people of Ulster had finally been given a chance to vote on the issue and 50.8 per cent of them were opposed to power-sharing . |
| 26 | He felt he had finally been given the spade to bury himself with . |
| 27 | The spiritual successor to the Jaguar E-type has finally been given the go-ahead . |
| 28 | A family who 've been on a council waiting list for four years have finally been offered a house which has been wrecked by vandals . |
| 29 | Miss Kyte considered herself fortunate to have finally been offered a post in a better class of household , for Sir John Merchiston 's widow sounded a much more promising prospect than Mrs Mugglesby , to whom she had last been in service . |
| 30 | It has generally been thought a manifestation of the taste which in the immediately following period adapted many fabulous monsters from the East ; but it has no close eastern parallels , and the discovery of the Lefkandi Centaur pushes back the concept in Greece a long way . |