Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match . |
| 2 | Well , he was more interested than he has been given credit for , and he had a wonderful collection of eighteenth-century English books which he gave to Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 3 | It had happened up and down the land , and Steve White said even he 'd been given £10,000 for an earlier move between Luton and Charlton Athletic . |
| 4 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 5 | JLM Projects Ltd have been given permission for a plan to build four houses on the site of a former Mission Church at Moor Crescent in Ludworth . |
| 6 | For instance , the chairman of an Italian company that Morton acquired in the 1970s has been given responsibility for adhesives throughout the region . |
| 7 | Vista Chemical , the American subsidiary of the German Company RWE-DEA has been given responsibility for the worldwide marketing of linear alkylbenzene . |
| 8 | At Potsdam Mountbatten had been given responsibility for accepting the Japanese surrender south of the 16th parallel . |
| 9 | The government 's Technical Commission had been given responsibility for providing the mechanism for an orderly poll for which 130,000,000 lei ( about US$6,500,000 ) was set aside . |
| 10 | It was reported on June 17 that he had been given responsibility for local government , while other responsibilities were redistributed between deputy premiers . |
| 11 | It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches . |
| 12 | The Commission has also been given responsibility for developing a broad Community recognised vocational training pass , but this will have to be built upon current activity in this area . |
| 13 | As indicated in UPDATE 1 , the broad subject areas which have been given priority for development during the 1988–89 session are : |
| 14 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | During that time BP has held a small interest in offshore block 8 and has been designated operator for onshore Cabinda Central block , where operations have been suspended for security reasons . |
| 17 | Perhaps the best known version is Shakespeare 's seven ages of man which is a poetic statement of what had already been received wisdom for centuries and was to remain so for centuries to come . |
| 18 | ‘ But on a point of handicapping , why has he been raised 4lb after finishing second in the Mackeson , while Desert Orchid has been dropped 2lb for finishing second to Long Engagement ? ’ |
| 19 | Although Kerrey 's campaign was lifted by this success , on the following day it suffered a setback when it was revealed that a restaurant chain of which he was part-owner had been fined $64,000 for 116 violations of child protection laws . |
| 20 | A MOTORIST has been fined £50 for brushing his hair and admiring his looks as he drove at 50mph . |
| 21 | GREAT Britain full back Graham Steadman has been fined £1,000 for failing a drugs test after the last match of this summer 's Lions tour . |
| 22 | WAQAR YOUNIS 'S county Surrey have been fined £1,000 for repeated ball-tampering over a three-year period . |
| 23 | The chemical company Albright and Wilson has been fined £1,000 for polluting the Irish Sea near its works in Whitehaven , Cumbria , six weeks after it was fined £2,000 for another pollution offence . |
| 24 | SEVE BALLESTEROS yesterday extended the hand of sympathy to Scotland 's leading golfer , Colin Montgomerie , who has been fined £1,000 for comments he made about last week 's Moroccan Open . |
| 25 | The Gloucester branch had already been fined £3,600 for similar offences , the city 's magistrates were told . |
| 26 | Martin Offiah has been fined £250 for snubbing the medal ceremony after the Charity Shield . |
| 27 | The north London club 's preparations were far from ideal , entering the game just 48 hours after they had been fined £50,000 for a breach of League regulations and chairman Stan Flashman had been involved in a scuffle with photographers at the London hearing . |
| 28 | One Fimbra member has been fined £50,000 for giving a client bad advice on a pension transfer . |
| 29 | i A coach tour operator has been fined £800 for allowing smoking on a coach tour which had been advertised as a smoke-free holiday . |
| 30 | Division Two men 's club Ware and Third Division North London have each been fined £150 for failing to fulfil fixtures at the weekend . |