Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sullivan later claimed that he had been given no instructions on this point . |
| 2 | The verses seem to be saying that the disciples understand because they have been given the secrets of the mystery of the kingdom but everybody else is taught in parables so that it will confuse them and prevent them coming into the kingdom . |
| 3 | Whoever had lived here had been given the remnants of used candles and had melted the stubs down to make a crude light . |
| 4 | It is as if governments , having been given the gifts of technology , set them loose without an idea of how or even a wish to restrain them . |
| 5 | They have been given the names of ‘ the mouse-pounce ’ , ‘ the bird-swat ’ and ‘ the fish-scoop ’ . |
| 6 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 7 | Every sales consultant has covered the basics ; they have been given the tools for success ; the Super Sales Grit ingredient takes you to where no sales-person has previously thought to go . |
| 8 | To these uncertainties has now been added the problems of deciding what performance constitutes mastery . |
| 9 | After World War two , a lot of people hoped that the we 'll call them the less agreeable characteristics of the German mind , would be changed by the traumatic experiences of the second total defeat in twenty years , physical destruction , national humiliation , embarrassment at having been made the collaborators of nazism and so on . |
| 10 | Many , if not most , good teachers are suffering from fatigue and innovation stress ; almost all teachers in state schools are profoundly resentful at the way that they and their schools have been made the scapegoats for the ills of society . |
| 11 | Survivors have always been told the terms of the peace treaty with Japan meant nothing more could be done for them . |
| 12 | In practice , the best combination of instruments for a particular procedure is largely a matter of trial and error but once a simple technique , such as the two-instrument injection method , has been mastered the principles of making and setting up extra instruments will be self-evident . |
| 13 | These have been called the pronouns of power and solidarity respectively . |
| 14 | By the accidents of distance and dates of birth both the Kiwi Keith and the Mackenzie houses had been spared the effects of war and neither knew the pain of loss or the sadness of wounds in young bodies . |
| 15 | Thanks to our parliamentary system and the stability that it has given us , the British people have been spared the horrors of revolution , civil war and invasion for more than 300 years . |
| 16 | Far from being the beneficiaries of a cartel , doctors have been denied the benefits of market forces by an employer who has not shrunk from exploiting their vocation and responsibility . |
| 17 | Where there is a formal announcement of a royal proclamation to dissolve parliament before the special meeting referred to in paragraph ( b ) above has been held the provisions of this section ( other than this paragraph ) shall be suspended and the said Member of Parliament shall be reselected as the prospective parliamentary candidate unless he or she intimated his or her intention to retire in which case the provisions of section ( 4 ) of this clause shall apply . |