Example sentences of "been [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 2 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 3 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 4 | The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence . |
| 5 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 6 | Nuclear power has been given an encouraging thumbs up in a recent Daily Telegraph survey which looked into what kind of country the British public wanted their children to inherit . |
| 7 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 8 | It is possible that this funding may cease after 1997 , but as Manchester Computing Centre has been designated a national datasets centre , the expertise to support the data should remain there . |
| 9 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 10 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 11 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 12 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 13 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 14 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |
| 15 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 16 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |
| 17 | It 's been used a thousand times already , as I gather the bed makes clear . |
| 18 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 19 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 20 | The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) . |
| 21 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 22 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 23 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 24 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 25 | Support for this theory , of an unexpected kind , had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television . |
| 26 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 27 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 28 | The idea of light coming only in packets , called quanta , had been introduced a few years earlier by the German physicist Max Planck . |
| 29 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 30 | The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart . |