Example sentences of "have been [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would wish to express my very great anguish to all those women concerned if I have been taught an inadequate technique , ’ she said . |
| 2 | In the last year we have been developing an occasional series to respond to this demand — the Survivors ' Guide . |
| 3 | In Swindon 's council parks and gardens , ponds in hot houses have been accumulating an unwanted collection of the American reptiles ; large and small . |
| 4 | The legal opinion obtained by CPRE and the Council for National Parks from Professor Francis Jacobs , one of the leading authorities on EEC law , makes it clear that both MAFF and DoE have been taking an unduly restrictive view in adopting their stance . |
| 5 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 6 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 7 | ‘ You will probably have realised that , due to an administrative error in our payroll section , you have been given an extra day 's pay … instead of having a day 's pay deducted . ’ |
| 8 | You may , for example , have been given an assignment to do on the organisation of a business . |
| 9 | Since 1970 they have been given an allowance for secretarial and research assistance . |
| 10 | In both cases you have been given an explicit and specific purpose and your notes should be deter-mined by this task . |
| 11 | EFFORTS to revitalise a hard-hit housing estate in Darlington have been given an unexpected financial boost . |
| 12 | It is worth noting that although the product is only just released commercially I have been using an ‘ engineering ’ version on the PC for some two months while the actual review tests were done on a genuine US release version . |
| 13 | At Tyrone County Hospital in Omagh surgeons have been using an advanced laser — the only one of its kind in Northern Ireland — to perform tonsillectomies and sinus surgery . |
| 14 | Now the handful of survivors have been made an offer they can not refuse : a last chance to surrender and march out , still beneath the banner of Modernism , straight into the arms of the museum culture — not as prisoners , but as co-belligerents . |
| 15 | THE administrators of Maxwell Communication Corporation have been granted an extra two months by the American courts to prepare a reconstruction plan for the company . |
| 16 | The importance of the BBFC has been enhanced in recent years by local licensing requirements for sex cinemas , which generally require that all films screened shall have been approved by the BBFC in its " adult " category , and by the rule that cable television companies and video shops shall only carry films which have been granted an appropriate BBFC certificate . |
| 17 | Lawyers for the Princess of Wales have been granted an injunction to prevent further publication of photographs of her exercising in a gym seen in the Sunday and Daily Mirror newspapers . |
| 18 | INDIA 'S troubled northern state of Kashmir , where militants have been waging an armed struggle for independence since 1990 , has a new governor . |
| 19 | Dr. Peter Collett and Dr. Michael Argyle at the Department of Experimental Psychology , Oxford University , have been awarded an ESRC grant to study the problems that British businessmen and women experience in Europe . |
| 20 | I have been left an agitated message from my niece Marie-Christine telling me that you are camping at Les Hiboux , without chairs or even the bare necessities of life . ’ |
| 21 | For some years now I have been researching an area where a certain event took place . |
| 22 | Emblem have been negotiating an exclusive agency here in Malta … ’ |
| 23 | In recent years , independent financial advisers ( IFAs ) have been playing an increasingly important role in the mortgage arena . |
| 24 | For too long , local planning authorities and local civic societies have been fighting an uneven battle against strong-arm tactics by the multiples . |
| 25 | To date we have been permitting an additional smoking break in the morning and again in the afternoon for smokers within the office as part of the agreement to have no smoking throughout the main parts of Chesser House . |
| 26 | At CeBIT Fair in Hannover Ericsson Business Networks and Intel Corp have been showing an emulation of a jointly-developed personal computer board designed to enable Windows machines to be linked to PABXs : the personal computer is linked to the switch through a standard ISDN-type connection so the micro can receive facsimile messages , voice-mail , video communications and the like — the thing is expected to appear as a product late this year . |
| 27 | He could , Dalgliesh thought , have been judged an outstandingly handsome man were it not for a certain incongruity of feature , perhaps the contrast between the fineness of the skin stretched over the flat cheekbones and the strong jutting jaw and uncompromising mouth . |
| 28 | Patients nationwide have been promised an improved service , including an ambulance within 14 minutes in urban areas and 19 minutes in rural areas . |
| 29 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 30 | For months the polls have been predicting an unprecedented landslide victory for the Right in next month 's general election . |