Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been criticise for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DES has nevertheless been criticised for not giving enough training to teachers and for not providing adequate computer programs for the classroom . |
| 2 | Andrewes has also been criticised for abandoning his parish during the plague , and , above all , for his subservience to the King . |
| 3 | The National Gallery has also been criticised for trying to insure the entire exhibition with the help of an indemnity reserved for foreign loans . |
| 4 | The codex has also been criticised for setting standards lower than those of national governments . |
| 5 | She has often been criticised for not doing , or doing imperfectly , things she was not trying to do . |
| 6 | Dickens has often been criticised for his portrayal of dying children ; John Carey describes him as ‘ a manufacturer of model children , pious little monsters , moribund and adult . ’ |
| 7 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 8 | The Getty has often been criticised for having more money than sense . |
| 9 | A Stockton author who last week defended his book about Guisborough has now been criticised for his work on Middlesbrough . |
| 10 | ‘ There have been certain views about Nigel all the time and I 've sometimes been criticised for not playing him . |
| 11 | The National Dairy Council had previously been criticised for a campaign suggesting that milk could protect children 's teeth from decay , but a claim that the vitamin A in milk improved night vision was permitted . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've certainly been criticised for that . |
| 13 | The present Type 22s , such as HMS Broadsword and Brilliant , which shot down several Argentinian aircraft with Seawolf missiles , have long been criticised for their puny armament . |
| 14 | The police have already been criticised for not stopping the travellers as they moved onto Castle Morton common . |
| 15 | That has always been the case , we have always been criticised for doing it but I find it outstandingly noticeable this year . |
| 16 | Planners have also been criticised for not letting people know what 's been going on . |
| 17 | Graham Sharpe , spokesman for Hills , who cut the second favourite , Double Dutch , from 7-1 to 6-1 and Royal Square from 16-1 to 10-1 yesterday , countered by saying : ‘ We have often been criticised for including in our ante-post lists horses that trainers later said were never intended runners . |
| 18 | Official statistics have often been criticised for counting only the wait between first specialist consultation and treatment , although the department says it would be misleading to include patients before they have been fully assessed . |
| 19 | The band have often been criticised for their imperious stance , especially in relation to early material and the decision to stop playing encores . |
| 20 | Many scrutinies , moreover , are not completed within the two-year time span , and departments have frequently been criticised for delays in implementation . |