Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , all the display vats in the undercover sales area have been treated the same way , turning what could easily be run-of-the-mill fish transit into a feast for the inquiring eye . |
| 2 | It would almost certainly have been given the same support by the full House had it not been attached to a Bill to reform obscenity law , with which it had no clear or logical connection . |
| 3 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 4 | Millions of people have been given the same chance to own a real share in the nation 's assets . |
| 5 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 6 | Each club have been fined the same amount as Arsenal , who were found to be the less culpable party in the mass scuffle with Norwich City on November 4 . |
| 7 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 8 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 9 | I have also been told the same story time and time again . |
| 10 | This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price . |
| 11 | Had she been asked the same question in different surroundings her amazement might have been tempered with doubt that Nahum Morey was in his right mind , but in this confined space she began to share his conviction that they had been drawn together by their various needs . |
| 12 | When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’ |
| 13 | Exiled Nigerian poet Olu Oguibe has been awarded the All Africa Okigbo Prize for Literature for his collection A Gathering Fear ( Kraft Books ) . |
| 14 | Blacks would have been better off now if , after being shipped to America in chains , they had been allowed the same freedom to prosper as willing immigrants were . |
| 15 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
| 16 | If BP boss Sir Peter Walters had been paid the same proportion of sales he would have received a salary of £8.1billion . |
| 17 | All the horses will use the race course stables , and all riders have been guaranteed the same training conditions . |
| 18 | The Goodies have — unfairly — never been afforded the same mystique . |
| 19 | ‘ I am sad we have not been afforded the same welcome given to the Beirut hostages , ’ he told a deeply moved audience at the AGM last month . |