Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dept. , Convocation and alumni to learn that I have been elected Vice-President of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education . |
| 2 | Birds of prey have been registered nose-diving at speeds of up to 1 l 0 miles an hour . |
| 3 | Many Bristol graduates will have been taught music by Professor Ray Warren but I wonder how many have been taught mathematics by him ? |
| 4 | ‘ I have been sent chocolate from my mother . |
| 5 | Interviewed on BBC Radio 4 , Andrew Lees of Friends of the Earth declared , ‘ I have been given clearance by my Board to seek a judicial review … we are very serious about this issue and are going to go for it . ’ |
| 6 | The pollution claims have been given credibility by the Colombian health ministry , which has declared a large area around the mind " uninhabitable " because of the accumulation of toxic waste . |
| 7 | JLM Projects Ltd have been given permission for a plan to build four houses on the site of a former Mission Church at Moor Crescent in Ludworth . |
| 8 | Nor would such a study have been given permission by the RUC , for it is utopian to expect police authorities in divided societies to open up these sections of their force to scrutiny and observation by outsiders . |
| 9 | While those in Canada are pushed around , those on the other side of the border have been given permission by Washington to run bingo halls , the only legitimate gambling in the area . |
| 10 | These general principles have been given expression in the further development of a vocational policy required by Article 128 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 11 | In order , moreover , to minimize departmental opposition — which had been instrumental in neutralizing the impact of PAR and the CPRS — departments have been given discretion in determining the pace and nature of managerial change . |
| 12 | After years spent under the thumb of finance ministries , an increasing number have been given independence from politicians . |
| 13 | Some have suffered symptoms so severe that they have been given medication by their doctor . |
| 14 | They have been given guidance on the importance of distinguishing between needs , preferences , and wants . |
| 15 | Erm , the financial elements I find complex , I 'm sure from discussions with various members , they equally find it complex , but the position is , that in the current year , you have been given access to a specific grant . |
| 16 | Subject headings lists are lists of index terms , normally arranged in alphabetical order , which have been given authority for use in an index , catalogue or database for describing subjects . |
| 17 | As indicated in UPDATE 1 , the broad subject areas which have been given priority for development during the 1988–89 session are : |
| 18 | Environmentalists have reported the government to the European Commission over nine road schemes which have been given approval without an environmental assessment . |
| 19 | After trials in Moorsholm and Loftus wheely bins have been given approval by users . |
| 20 | Their grant has been frozen in real terms at much below the level at which they could expect to survive on it ; they have been denied entitlement to income support , housing benefits and rebates ; there are no jobs with which they can supplement their incomes during vacations ; and those who find themselves desperately hard up discover , when they turn to the hardship fund , that it has already been exhausted . |
| 21 | As most relatives have been denied access to the graves , or have been brow beaten into silence the true figures are much higher , and some sources put the figure in excess of 5,000 . |
| 22 | Realistically , though , you would need to have strong evidence that the existence of such a right is part of your particular deal with your employer , and that you have been denied satisfaction from your work in a clear and unjustifiable fashion , before you could pursue litigation with confidence . |
| 23 | Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary . |
| 24 | Statistics on the death penalty in the USSR have been made public for the first time since 1934 . |
| 25 | This process is now being reversed and increasing numbers of new family farmers have been granted land from the collective and state farms . |
| 26 | Meantime , all 5 defendants have been granted bail until April 27 . |
| 27 | I have been sought redress for people damaged by the utilities , but over the years the Government have pushed my pleas to one side . |
| 28 | perhaps in six months or in sixty years erm facing the same kind of problem again er I , I can erm I have close experience with a situation on my , on my own patch which rises from time to time an and is most unpleasant for the people in and it goes back if I might say so an and therefore the planning considerations that have been mentioned need to be paid attention to . |
| 29 | In fact this is the whole point of introducing D. By assigning a relative permittivity to a dielectric material all these problems have been taken care of . |
| 30 | Once the foregoing points have been taken care of , independent achievement of the balance conditions is possible through variation of R 2 and R 3 . |