Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
2 | Their evidence for this judgement , as with those presented in most of their surveys , was loosely stated and difficult to verify , but the argument has been echoed many times in recent years in Britain by academics and policy-makers alike . |
3 | It is this basic human right that has been denied deaf persons and their families for hundreds of years . |
4 | Pauline Golightly , 24 , of Vernon Gardens , Harrowgate Hill , says that since she moved into the house last October her Nissan Sunny has been vandalised four times . |
5 | The American , considered one of the most sympathetic of riders , has been penalised four times for careless riding since arriving here in 1979 . |
6 | She has been appointed public relations assistant . |
7 | Andrew Lawrence , previously sales manager at Pest Control London South has been appointed national accounts executive . |
8 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |
9 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
10 | Again , it is not my intention here to review the variations and criticisms in detail this has been done many times elsewhere . |
11 | But erm yeah , it 's , it 's er good for what it is , but I think this has been done many times before and er I sh would think that everybody 's seen some just slightly better than this , but it 's quite a nice er sunset . |
12 | After this has been done several times , the actual frequency of reorganization can be compared with that expected , and the future reorganization schedule will be based on the results . |
13 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
14 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
15 | Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments . |
16 | A much sought-after right-winger , Cooper has been transferred four times . |
17 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
18 | The Cabinet outcast managed to upstage Kenneth Baker , the Conservative party chairman , who has been taking acting lessons from Kenneth Branagh . |
19 | The world 's highest peak has been scaled many times since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953 . |
20 | PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force . |
21 | SCIAF has been supporting income-generation schemes for AIDS sufferers in Uganda as well as training and counselling , and it is expected that demands for assistance with AlDS-related projects will increase substantially in the next few years . |
22 | This function has been called many times under many conditions , and with a variety of subjects . |
23 | For instance , the fine against a player ranked in the top 4 in the world has been increased five times from $20,000 to £100,000 . |
24 | To this end the ODR has been raised five times since May 1989 . |
25 | Sun executives say the issue of Sun chief executive officer Scott McNealy giving up his other post as president of Sun Microsystems Computer Corp , Sun 's systems planet ( UX No 433 ) , has been raised many times and never acted on . |
26 | That , too , has been raised many times tonight . |
27 | My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before . |
28 | In Ariel ( 15 ) a miner who has been made redundant heads south to Helsinki and falls in love . |
29 | In it , a miner who has been made redundant heads south to Helsinki and falls in love . |
30 | When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software . |