Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [noun] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | For instance , the chairman of an Italian company that Morton acquired in the 1970s has been given responsibility for adhesives throughout the region . |
2 | Perhaps the best known version is Shakespeare 's seven ages of man which is a poetic statement of what had already been received wisdom for centuries and was to remain so for centuries to come . |
3 | SEVE BALLESTEROS yesterday extended the hand of sympathy to Scotland 's leading golfer , Colin Montgomerie , who has been fined £1,000 for comments he made about last week 's Moroccan Open . |
4 | Poland had been trapped in a time capsule , and try as it might to struggle free , the parameters of its political and spiritual life had been set firm for years to come by the humiliation of invisibility . |
5 | Thus for practical reasons it has sometimes been found expedient for projects initiated by Unidroit to reach fruition at a Diplomatic Conference held under the aegis of UNCITRAL . |
6 | Bernard Tapie , who had been appointed Minister for Towns in April 1992 [ see pp. 38870-71 ; 38820 ] , resigned on May 23 . |