Example sentences of "been [verb] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |
| 2 | They tend to be the larger companies , I have to be fair , er , but er , one of the encouraging things from my point of view , and I , we started rather early , maybe fifteen , twenty years ago has been to see the growth of this particular sector , where people have moved progressively into , I think a much more enlightened posture in the last ten or fifteen years , and B I C , Business in the Community of course , have to take , I think much credit for that . |
| 3 | They 've been charting the progress of Rob Coles throughout the British Steel challenge … possibly the toughest seafaring test he 'll ever experience . |
| 4 | This book , which might as easily have been entitled The Triumph of Realism , might equally have been subtitled The Return of the Native . |
| 5 | An informal group formed this week has been mobilising the support of cricket clubs throughout the island to stay away from the game . |
| 6 | The contribution of the Conservative government has been to quicken the pace of centralisation , concerned perhaps to exercise greater control of public sector organisations for which privatisation was not an option . |
| 7 | Our main concern has been to promote the concept of self-evaluation as a tool for management and improvement of services . |
| 8 | By plotting ring patterns of trees in this area , scientists can date ancient building timbers , and other wood artifacts , by comparing ring patterns with those of the bristlecone pines ( such studies have been given the name of dendrochronotogy . |
| 9 | These lethal little amphibians belong to a family that has been given the name of poison-arrow frogs . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel deeply honoured to have been given the opportunity of continuing the work I 've started in the last 16 months , ’ he said . |
| 11 | All told , I regard myself as incredibly lucky to have been given the opportunity of being Chairman of the National Gallery , and I could n't have enjoyed it more . |
| 12 | It can not be an informed decision unless the person who has provided the specimens of breath knows that there are two possible specimens which can be substituted for them and has been given the opportunity of making representations as to which of the two types of specimen it should be . |
| 13 | Under the Conservative Government the people in Great Britain , including people , have been given the opportunity of shareholding undreamed of before opposed opposed by the Labour Party . |
| 14 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 15 | The Construction Industry Research and Information Association ( CIRIA ) has been given the responsibility of gathering together and adding to what is known about the risks . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been given the responsibility of securing the capital , if that 's what you mean . ’ |
| 17 | These committees were to work in concert with the police and with the KGB ( which , under a Nov. 23 USSR Supreme Soviet resolution , had already been given the responsibility of ensuring that food aid from abroad did not fall into the hands of speculators ) . |
| 18 | A report on Estonian Radio on April 27 said that Veering and Puura had been given the responsibility of expediting the setting up of an Estonian Defence Ministry . |
| 19 | Clarence had been given the honour of Richmond in 1462 ; or , more strictly , had been given the two thirds then in the crown 's possession and the reversion of the remaining third on the death of the dowager duchess of Bedford . |
| 20 | Clarence had been given the honour of Richmond in 1462 ; or , more strictly , had been given the two thirds then in the crown 's possession and the reversion of the remaining third on the death of the dowager duchess of Bedford . |
| 21 | I retraced my steps to the square where Kennedy had been given the Freedom of the City ( an empty honour ) , and explored a network of narrow shopping streets . |
| 22 | For Lindsay Weir , who had been given the nickname of ‘ Dad ’ since his Mt Albert Grammar schooldays , and for Jack Kerr it was their first trip away with the New Zealand team . |
| 23 | Major 's sporting friend , David Mellor , has been given the Ministry of National Heritage , which covers broadcasting , tourism , sport , and the arts , and thus has rather more to it than Waldegrave 's new outfit . |
| 24 | Through his active involvement in European institutions — serving , for example , as president of both the Assembly of the Council of Europe and the OEEC — he had been given the accolade of being ‘ Mr Europe ’ . |
| 25 | As they munched hungrily he learned how Tommy at the age of eighteen had been given the choice of two years at His Majesty 's pleasure or volunteering to fight for King and country . |
| 26 | Because we have been given the possibility of sight , it is no surprise when we are inconsolable if we have no eyesight . |
| 27 | The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal . |
| 28 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Lawrence Eagleburger , the deputy secretary of state who has been given the job of co-ordinating America 's help for Eastern Europe , was told by Congress that the money the administration has in mind is too modest , but that its ideas about who should control the distribution of this money are immodest . |
| 30 | The EUROMET project , with a budget of 400,000 ecus ( $480,000 ) , has been given the job of building an EC meteorite mountain , and teams of hardy Euro-researchers are already out scavenging . |