Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practice of nurses working flexible hours , which is largely controlled by the needs of the nursing team , has to date been given little attention . |
| 2 | The only sane response to a complaint in some circumstances is a firm ‘ no ’ but it is important that the complaint is seen to have been given serious consideration and that those that have complained are not made to feel foolish . |
| 3 | It is very easy to get involved in discussing whether Olive ought to have been given some knowledge of French wines before George moved , or perhaps persuaded to move to the city along with him . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's nothing to do with whether I 'm good , whether I 'm lucky enough to have been given more talent than you , the rest of you … ’ |
| 5 | In March 1944 the U.852 was on patrol off the west coast of Africa : she was the fifth U-boat to have been given this area of patrol , the previous four , commanded by aces such as Wuppisch and Schultz , having all been sunk by aircraft . |
| 6 | They have always been a club with potential , and that potential appears to have been realised this season . |
| 7 | The Italian Classic , due to have been played next month , has been moved from its original slot and is in danger of not been played at all . |
| 8 | Mettingham seems to have been assigned special responsibility for hearing quo warranto and related pleas on his eyre circuit , but this was certainly not the only business that he heard . |
| 9 | However , such a scheme would never wash with the public — who wants their water supplies to have been treated this way ? |
| 10 | Chester College is pressing to be allowed the title of university college , but its hopes appeared to have been dashed last month by education junior minister Tim Boswell . |
| 11 | Subsequently , when the code was broken , both were found to have been taking ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 12 | Since Holyfield took over and made grandad-bashing respectable on the heavyweight scene , those young lions who ought to have been clawing each other for the right to depose and expose him have been harmlessly shadow boxing around each other . |
| 13 | Mr Major said he was immensely proud to have been elected Prime Minister in his own right . |
| 14 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 15 | The finding of the " goat " has caused particular excitement , since i is one of the few large mammals to have been discovered this century . |
| 16 | According to reports the scheme is being allowed by Buckingham Palace and actively supported by Prince Michael of Kent , said to have been appointed unpaid chairman of the firm 's advisory board . |
| 17 | THE marriage of tennis star John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal seemed to have been saved last night after a series of tantrums . |
| 18 | The aid agency Care , the main distribution agency for all UN relief operations in the north , was reported on Nov. 18 to have been granted official permission to distribute food in southern and central parts of the country . |
| 19 | The " Big Book " of alcoholics Anonymous describes some unfortunate people as being " naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " and says that " they are not at fault ; they seem to have been born that way " . |
| 20 | The preceding sentence , " They are not at fault ; they " seem to have been born that way " is itself an honest acceptance that addictive disease is stronger in some people than in others and that the acceptance of defeat and the wish " to go to any lengths " to get into recovery is ultimately a personal decision for each sufferer and not something that can be imposed by anyone else . |
| 21 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |
| 22 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 23 | Headland has persuasively argued that , just as with the pygmies above , there was just not enough food for such groups in the forest itself ; in this case , the people seemed to have been trading wild meat for goods including carbohydrate and , indeed , may have grown it themselves in the past . |
| 24 | " We are delighted to have been awarded full Order off Merit status on the European Tour , and the fact that we are coming to Fulford and thereby preserving an unbroken record of 20 years championship golf in this region , is equally pleasing , " said Paul Vaughan , Sponsorship Director of Whitbread & Company . |
| 25 | Judicial reviews are also threatened in Oldham and the London Borough of Croydon , although an action in Cheshire appeared to have been resolved this week . |
| 26 | The 38 lenders are also thought to have been told that trading is worse than at any time since the current owner took over in the late 1980s . |
| 27 | It belonged to a huge and beautiful seal who said she just happened to have been drawn that way . |
| 28 | Mr Li is believed to have been criticised last year by China 's senior leader , Deng Xiaoping , for his caution on the economy . |
| 29 | Mr Hargreaves was believed to have been carrying ice-climbing equipment . |