Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] been [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the people to whom , for example , you write if you 've just been appointed liquidator of a company and want to get its VAT payments sorted out . |
| 2 | You 've already been denied access to two travelling rock circuses called Lollapalooza as they wound their weird and wonderful way across The Land Of The Free ( sic ) . |
| 3 | Nowadays they get in free and are given VIP passes ( access to all areas ) , but tonight the five mates with whom they 've driven the 150 miles from Southport have all been refused entry by the Ritzy 's management for being under 20 . |
| 4 | Several Bosnian families have already been given shelter in this country until the fighting at home is over . |
| 5 | The fact that certain strategies which can be shown to be useful in translation have not been made use of so far suggests that translators are simply not aware of them , rather than that they are familiar with them but consciously or subconsciously choose not to use them . |
| 6 | Reporters have not been allowed access to Chi Ma Wan or any of the other detention centres . |
| 7 | The lighting and keeping of the hearth fire have always been given significance in human culture ; the Greeks named their goddess of the hearth Hestia , later to be replaced by the Roman Vesta , whose handmaidens were the famous Vestal Virgins . |
| 8 | The videos have even been sold door to door from delivery vans . |
| 9 | 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 . |