Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 2 | A piece of ham has been given pride of place in a butcher 's window . |
| 3 | They have never been given equality of status with the other ‘ nations ’ of Yugoslavia , and even under the benign 1974 Constitution they are conscious that they are regarded as inferiors , barely tolerated by the Slav peoples of Yugoslavia , and especially by the Serbs . |
| 4 | As indicated in UPDATE 1 , the broad subject areas which have been given priority for development during the 1988–89 session are : |
| 5 | Demand management had been given priority in preference to profitable or productive work . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Has been given notice by Head that he will be returned home if he continues to refuse to co-operate . |
| 8 | Before their attack 356 ( 23% ) patients had been prescribed treatment at step 2 , 275 ( 77% ) of whom remained at step 2 or lower after the attack , and 81 ( 23% ) had their treatment stepped up according to recommended guidelines . |
| 9 | Why Mr Jones did n't book him for what could have been deemed incitement in front of Newcastle 's followers will remain a mystery along with his dropball doodle-bug . |
| 10 | Well how do you feel I mean a lot of a lot if not all of your work here has been done face to face . |
| 11 | The former is the voice of sound , sensible England , the latter is Spenser who had been granted land in county Cork in 1588 . |
| 12 | Leon Trotsky himself arrived in Mexico in early January 1937 , having been granted asylum by president Cárdenas . |
| 13 | Following them was Kim Philby , who escaped to Moscow just ahead of MI5 in 1962 , and Anthony Blunt , who finally confessed in 1964 to being a long-time and important Russian spy only after having been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 14 | North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 15 | Her immediate subordinate , James C. Smith , had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 16 | On the one side , US aid has been made conditional on action against the drug trade . |
| 17 | The only other twentieth-century example I have found is also from an Irish-born writer : ( 198 ) I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 18 | I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 19 | Dzerzhinsky had been made Commissar for Transport in the first place to deal with internal troubles among the railwaymen , many of whom had opposed the Bolsheviks in 1917 and nearly brought Lenin 's government to its knees after the October Revolution . |
| 20 | This was chiefly because Geoffrey Stallibrass had been made Director of Aviation Safety in the Ministry of Aviation and his keen sense of the practical got things moving . |
| 21 | The semiotic approach to subcultural style pioneered by Dick Hebdige and his cohorts at Birmingham 's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies — reading into working-class consumption for evidence of myriad micro-resistances to the status quo — has been turned arse about tit . |
| 22 | Former BAe executive Richard Hooke says he has been told Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine is also looking at the deal , along with Welsh Secretary John Redwood and Employment Secretary David Hunt to see if it is in the best interests of the shareholders and taxpayers . |
| 23 | After a lengthy campaign they 've been offered compensation for drop in value of their homes . |
| 24 | The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble . |
| 25 | The videos have even been sold door to door from delivery vans . |
| 26 | He showed Horsley and Everett politely round the castle , explaining how parts dated back to the fifteenth century , and telling the preposterous , but true , story of how the building , formerly the family home of the Fenwicks , had been shifted stone by stone from the foot of the hill in the 1930s to give it the spectacular view it now enjoyed . |
| 27 | Why this should have been thought evidence of scurrility was known only to Joyce ‘ s peculiar logic . |
| 28 | IMO it has been demonstrated time after time that Strachan is pretty useless on the left ( even though he put in a nice cross for Hodge on saturday ) ) Even in the scum match , Strachan looked just a little too late and too slow in most situations , and I understand from the match reports that he has n't improved since . |
| 29 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 30 | She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle , and never devoted any conscious thought to him . |