Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 2 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 3 | Since then , all the display vats in the undercover sales area have been treated the same way , turning what could easily be run-of-the-mill fish transit into a feast for the inquiring eye . |
| 4 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 5 | London had been given no such attention , but The London Society since 1912 had been undertaking work which was brought together in essays edited by Sir Aston Webb ( 1921 ) . |
| 6 | It would almost certainly have been given the same support by the full House had it not been attached to a Bill to reform obscenity law , with which it had no clear or logical connection . |
| 7 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 8 | Millions of people have been given the same chance to own a real share in the nation 's assets . |
| 9 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 10 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 11 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 12 | Each club have been fined the same amount as Arsenal , who were found to be the less culpable party in the mass scuffle with Norwich City on November 4 . |
| 13 | Most of the bigger hotels in Kos have been built a little way out of the old town and the Bohem is about 15 minutes from the far side of Heaven ( the disco ) ! |
| 14 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 15 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 16 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 17 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 18 | I have also been told the same story time and time again . |
| 19 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |
| 20 | This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price . |
| 21 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 22 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 23 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 24 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 25 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 26 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 27 | Support for this theory , of an unexpected kind , had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television . |
| 28 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 29 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 30 | The idea of light coming only in packets , called quanta , had been introduced a few years earlier by the German physicist Max Planck . |