Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 2 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 3 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence . |
| 6 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 7 | The caller also was extremely annoyed that calls relating to valuation matters were being passed to her but Media Action had been given no alternative numbers to filter these calls to . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Daum claimed that his players had been given the new sports designer drug Clenbuterol simply to heal persistent muscle injuries . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | To ensure confidentiality of information sources , companies have been given the following tags . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | John Hill 's son says he 's not been given the full facts about what went wrong . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The biggest prize in steeplechasing — The Cheltenham Gold Cup — has been given the finishing touches before the big race . |
| 17 | Nuclear power has been given an encouraging thumbs up in a recent Daily Telegraph survey which looked into what kind of country the British public wanted their children to inherit . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ' . |
| 20 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 21 | It is possible that this funding may cease after 1997 , but as Manchester Computing Centre has been designated a national datasets centre , the expertise to support the data should remain there . |
| 22 | Once sample preparation has been completed the simplest analyses may be performed on the largest particles . |
| 23 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Throughout the factory a new gas heating system has been installed the independent heaters doing away with the need for the central boiler house . |
| 26 | They were in a small audience chamber , and they had been excused the customary prostrations . |
| 27 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 30 | When this has been done the common problems of analysis can be dealt with . |