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Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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	To be eligible for the study women had to be white , British , married , aged 25–39 years , and to have been taking oral contraceptives for at least five months , or using a diaphragm or intrauterine device for at least five months without previous exposure to oral contraceptives .
12	Subsequently , when the code was broken , both were found to have been taking ursodeoxycholic acid .
13	Earlier , about 50,000 protesters were reported to have been chanting anti-government slogans in Timisoara and demanding that the bodies of victims be returned to their families .
14	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 .
15	Mr Major said he was immensely proud to have been elected Prime Minister in his own right .
16	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 .
17	‘ It will probably turn out to have been discovered twenty times already .
18	The finding of the " goat " has caused particular excitement , since i is one of the few large mammals to have been discovered this century .
19	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 .
20	THE marriage of tennis star John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal seemed to have been saved last night after a series of tantrums .
21	A second-century cremation cemetery has been uncovered south of the defended area in Swan Street ; it was claimed to have been receiving additional burials as late as the third and fourth centuries , when it must have lain within the built-up area .
22	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 .
23	, Claude ( 1877–1959 ) , scholar , claimed to have been born 26 May 1877 ( his birth certificate counter-claimed 24 May ) in Handsworth , Staffordshire , the eldest son of Oswald Jenkins , cashier and later land agent , and his wife Sarah , daughter of William Palmer .
24	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 " .
25	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 .
26	He is therefore likely to have been born some years before 1248 .
27	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 .
28	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 .
29	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 .
30	One moment Angel One had been crouched motionless as a carved statue , the next he seemed to have been transposed several feet nearer in the blink of an eye , like a faulty sequence in some badly cut movie .