Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 2 | They 'd been given names by the local people — the Grand Canyon , the Great Wall of China — on account of the strangeness of their formations . |
| 3 | The European Court also decided in favour of two Spanish and British foreign language tutors at the University of Venice , who had been denied contracts of indefinite duration on the grounds that the posts were in the public service and that they were not Italians . |
| 4 | ‘ ABSOLUTELY delighted ’ is how David Taylor , Manager of Telford Branch described his reaction on hearing that his Branch had been appointed bankers to the Princess Royal Hospital , due to become a NHS Trust on 1 April . |
| 5 | Apart from the counties a number of urban areas had grown up and many of these had been granted Charters of Incorporation giving them varying powers of local administration . |
| 6 | John Mowlem believed that he descended from the de Moulhams who maintained Corfe Castle for several centuries and to whom had been granted lands near Godlingston . |
| 7 | Acting Navy Secretary Sean C. O'Keefe , Garrett 's successor , announced at a press conference on Sept. 24 that Williams and Gordon had been granted requests for early retirement , while Davis had been reassigned to another post . |
| 8 | Moreover , once health authorities had been granted powers to ‘ buy in ’ services , then the question of the accountability to local publics of their purchasing decisions was raised . |
| 9 | It was , therefore , with a certain displeasure , that I received , one Friday evening , Nigel 's announcement that he had been sent details of a converted mill in Wales and we 'd better drive up the next morning to take a look at it . |
| 10 | Although the telephone wires had been cut minutes before the assault he knew the authorities would still have been alerted and were almost certainly on their way to the prison at that very moment . |
| 11 | What hitherto had been integrated plants in countries like the UK , carrying out complete manufacturing processes , are closed down and rationalized in order to manufacture products more cheaply from parts manufactured by workers divided between a number of countries . |
| 12 | He flew to Holyhead in a helicopter from the Queen 's flight and then on to Anglesey for a series of visits which had been arranged months in advance . |
| 13 | But Anthony Arnold , chairman of the Vale of Glamorgan Conservative Association , said the visit by the Central Office agent had been arranged weeks in advance . |
| 14 | The 21 year old had been treated for depression and had been prescribed tablets by his doctor on 15 occasions . |
| 15 | She had been given directions to a smallholding where they sold early strawberries on a roadside stall but she must have missed her way , taken a wrong turning and come out here . |
| 16 | He would have done better to hoard a fast , independent ship with good signalling equipment , for on the Queen Elizabeth , which had been given tasks of her own , he became a virtual prisoner , unable to respond to events or give directions . |
| 17 | For example , on the crucial question of the medical condition of the evacuees , which was to cause so much controversy , the Board of Education believed that local authorities had been adequately warned that pediculosis ( head lice ) would be a problem and had been given instructions on how to disinfect children by the use of steam baths ; also that its memorandum Ev . |
| 18 | Each campesino had been given instructions to always have ready 20 extra tortillas in case we had to leave at a moment 's notice , but even so , it was very hard . |
| 19 | Duduc had been given lands at Congresbury and Banwell in Somerset and a monasterium in Gloucester before he was promoted to Wells , and another royal priest , Stigand , received the new church at Assandun and became a major figure under Edward the Confessor , eventually ( and illegally ) holding the great sees of Winchester and Canterbury in plurality . |
| 20 | Mr O'Connor produced letters dated last May from the Dishonoured Cheque Register , whose client Texas Homecare had been given cheques by Mr Round for £117.46 and £81.98 . |
| 21 | Mr O'Connor produced letters dated last May from the Dishonoured Cheque Register , whose client Texas Homecare had been given cheques by Mr Round for £117.46 and £81.98 . |
| 22 | His father had been given Grágás at fourteen , and had gone with Thorkel Fóstri raiding the tribute-lands . |
| 23 | It was to prevent such problems that the Central Land Board had been given powers of compulsory purchase at the ‘ correct ’ price . |
| 24 | ‘ Now Brittany had been given assurances by the present King of England 's father that the Tudors would fight to protect Brittany 's independence . ’ |
| 25 | Cuts in oil supply from Russia were jeopardizing Ukraine 's spring sowing , and farmers had been given supplies from the state reserves . |
| 26 | There had been aborted revolutions in Germany after the Great War , and an international socialism ( though factional ) was spreading throughout Europe . |
| 27 | Hard on the heels of that distinction we learnt in March that two Fellows , Carole Jordan , astrophysicist and physics tutor , and Louise Johnson , had been elected Fellows of the Royal Society , the only two women on the 1990 list . |
| 28 | Since 1945 there had been repeated inquiries into the structure and finance of British local government , but until the 1970s no reform at all . |
| 29 | A group of white parents , each of whose children had been allocated places at a school ( Headfield ) where 83 per cent of the pupils were of Asian origin , challenged the LEA 's decisions both individually , through separate appeals ( some of which were successful ) , and subsequently through collective action . |
| 30 | There is a theory that they brought with them the ancestors of the naturally polled northern breeds such as the Angus and Galloway , but in fact there had been polled cattle in Britain since the Iron Age and they were not necessarily imported — not even from Scandinavia , where many cattle are polled . |