Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adj] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the ‘ social ’ or non-commercial objectives imposed on the railways by the state remain unacknowledged ; they are not incorporated into calculations of state financial compensation and state control has thus been weakened since railway management has been given reasonable pretexts for failing to meet targets . |
| 2 | The court thus upheld a claim by three men who had been given discretionary sentences for various sex offences . |
| 3 | As might be expected , policy rules of quite formidable complexity have been developed in the rational expectations literature , the best known of these being that proposed by Barro ( 1977 ) in which he attempts to model the process by which the growth in the money supply is determined and , on the basis of the prediction of what the money supply should have been given known values for its determining variables , to derive a time series for ‘ anticipated ’ changes in the money supply . |
| 4 | Chipenda had earlier resigned as election organizer for the MPLA [ see p. 38949 for his election to MPLA central committee and political bureau ] , saying that he had not been given sufficient funds for the campaign and citing a " lack of the necessary trust and openness " in the party . |
| 5 | The corporation has been fined 25 times for soil contamination at its Florida plant . |
| 6 | He 'd apparently hit the central barrier and lost control , and has already been fined 250 pounds for driving without due care and attention . |
| 7 | He 's already been fined 250 pounds for driving without due care and attention . |
| 8 | the offences of failing to produce you 've been fined ten pounds for each of those three offences . |
| 9 | Cup odds FOOTBALL : Liverpool and Nottingham Forest have been made 11–4 favourites for the FA Cup by William Hill who then offer 7–2 Chelsea , 15–1 Villa , 111 Norwich and Southampton , 16–1 West Ham , 25–1 Middlesbrough , 40–1 Portsmouth , 50–1 Sunderland , 80–1 Ipswich , 150–1 Bolton . |
| 10 | When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software . |
| 11 | East Berliners have been offered free tickets for a football match today in West Berlin as well as to a number of concerts and the opera . |
| 12 | Earth tremors caused structural damage in Angra village in 1988 but the nuclear plant 's operators , state-owned Furnas Centrais Electricas , denied that the reactor had been damaged , although it has since been closed several times for " repairs " . |
| 13 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 14 | The current head of state , President Omar Bongo , succeeded to the Presidency in 1967 on the death of Gabon 's first President , Léon M'Ba , and has been re-elected three times for successive seven-year terms , most recently in November 1986 [ see p. 35047 ] . |
| 15 | He 's been arrested 32 times for shoplifting , but each time magistrates ruled the offences were n't serious enough for him to be detained , where he might have got the treatment he needs . |
| 16 | The American , considered one of the most sympathetic of riders , has been penalised four times for careless riding since arriving here in 1979 . |
| 17 | I mean , you know Louise , she erm , was two pounds overdrawn , erm , for about a day , she was sent a letter to say that she 'd been charged twenty pounds for the letter , |
| 18 | In part , this is because the country 's main coal-fired power plants had been awarded free permits for 75 per cent of their " baseline " output ( calculated on the basis of their average emissions in the 1980s ) . |
| 19 | And the mighty Red River , having been dammed six times for hydro-power , was actually the motionless mud-coloured Town Lake in the middle of Austin , the State Capital of Texas . |
| 20 | The others acknowledged us cheerily , clearly relieved to have been allowed 30 seconds for a sit-down . |
| 21 | Cos nobody 's been sent any notices for it or notified about it . |
| 22 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 23 | For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films . |
| 24 | But the workers have only been paid nine pounds for the month . |
| 25 | MINERS at Monktonhall colliery have not been paid any wages for the last seven weeks in an effort to ease the venture 's cash-flow problems , it was revealed last night . |
| 26 | He 's also been banned three times for excess alcohol , . |