Example sentences of "[been] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A practical solution to this problem has been to compare the monetary inputs ( costs ) with non-monetary outputs . |
| 2 | Worth a visit , too , is the topknot quarry , a small volcanic vent of vivid hue from which have been excavated the ruddy cylinders weighing up to tens of tons . |
| 3 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |
| 4 | Daum claimed that his players had been given the new sports designer drug Clenbuterol simply to heal persistent muscle injuries . |
| 5 | For the laboratory — which analyses emissions on and off site — has been given the prestigious NAMAS [ National Measurement Accreditation Service ] stamp of approval for its quality assurance system . |
| 6 | To ensure confidentiality of information sources , companies have been given the following tags . |
| 7 | In the midst of the proceedings , when they have already been given the Ten Commandments and much besides , and Moses is on the summit of Sinai receiving more torah to relay to them , they rebel . |
| 8 | Peter Thorburn , the other new face on the All Black panel , has been given the bread-and-butter jobs , while the Mains-Kirton tandem takes the top side . |
| 9 | John Hill 's son says he 's not been given the full facts about what went wrong . |
| 10 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 11 | The biggest prize in steeplechasing — The Cheltenham Gold Cup — has been given the finishing touches before the big race . |
| 12 | Yet the large majority of our teenagers said they had not been taught the practical realities of avoiding AIDS until they were at least 15 . |
| 13 | In 1912 Eleanor Barton , a spokeswoman for the WCG ( albeit herself middle class ) , voiced the opinion that ‘ women suffer a great deal through their husbands ’ sensuality , and that is more evident amongst working people than other classes , simply because the conditions of life lend themselves to that sort of thing , and they have not been taught the proper uses of their bodies ' . |
| 14 | Rauschning also began to realise that Gauleiter Forster had been using the economic reforms initiated by the Party in 1933 to line his own pocket . |
| 15 | Once sample preparation has been completed the simplest analyses may be performed on the largest particles . |
| 16 | The way it was done was that if you imagine putting one card in for psychology , two cards in for research methods , one card in for psychoanalytical approaches , three cards in for memory and so on and so forth an then they were sort of drawn out and then when a topic had been picked the other cards were removed . |
| 17 | Throughout the factory a new gas heating system has been installed the independent heaters doing away with the need for the central boiler house . |
| 18 | They were in a small audience chamber , and they had been excused the customary prostrations . |
| 19 | In 1910 , all the other minorities , to which had been added the Muslim Serbo-Croats of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( annexed in 1909 ) , outnumbered Germans and Magyars combined and provided about 58 per cent of the subjects of the house of Habsburg . |
| 20 | Cissie had been stripping the excess leaves from the stems of a bunch of slender white tulips , which she then lovingly arranged one by one in an earthenware vase . |
| 21 | When this has been done the common problems of analysis can be dealt with . |
| 22 | The basic logic of her programme since 1979 had been to reverse the main lines of her country 's history as it had developed since the Second World War . |
| 23 | MUCH AS he has been donning the hornrimmed glasses and adopting his Clark Kent persona of late , Curtly Ambrose has few equals when it comes to persuading a cricket ball to move faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall batsmen in a single bound . |
| 24 | One consequence of the recent shift in patterns of provision introduced to combat falling rolls and to widen educational/vocational opportunities has been to highlight the different sizes found there . |
| 25 | Morally speaking , one of the worst aspects of the autonomy-centred Enlightenment attitude has been to denigrate the receptive virtues , to make us so obsessed with giving that we do not know how to receive . |
| 26 | Thus the approach in the report has been to state the differing philosophies as well as stating what is , at present , practically and commercially acceptable to all , to show what techniques and systems may be available in the future . |
| 27 | Though when confidential information has actually been misused the applicable remedies are damages and an account of profits . |
| 28 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's a curiously authoritative figure , ’ says Tom Nairn , the political philosopher who has been pondering the various strains of British nationalism for years . |
| 30 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |