Example sentences of "been criticised for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign publications have been criticised for alleged one-sided reporting and their correspondents have been denied visas . |
| 2 | Graham Sharpe , spokesman for Hills , who cut the second favourite , Double Dutch , from 7-1 to 6-1 and Royal Square from 16-1 to 10-1 yesterday , countered by saying : ‘ We have often been criticised for including in our ante-post lists horses that trainers later said were never intended runners . |
| 3 | She has often been criticised for not doing , or doing imperfectly , things she was not trying to do . |
| 4 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 5 | Having been criticised for giving no information , BR now gives it all the time with endless repetition , except when you really want it . |
| 6 | ‘ The police have been criticised for acting prematurely . |
| 7 | As well as the controversery over the dismembering of the Nature Conservancy Council the Government has been criticised for the low morale and undermanning in the pollution inspectorate . |
| 8 | Most of the population have welcomed Mr Mladenov 's reforms , although he has been criticised for leaving some of Mr Zhivkov 's supporters in prominent positions . |
| 9 | The National Dairy Council had previously been criticised for a campaign suggesting that milk could protect children 's teeth from decay , but a claim that the vitamin A in milk improved night vision was permitted . |
| 10 | They have been criticised for the choice of colours associated with warfare , but up here in these hills surrounded by an army of uniformed police , US marshalls and private security guards all bristling with weapons , it is war : UMWA vice-president Cecil Roberts has said as much . |
| 11 | Mr Suharto has been criticised for having too many Christians in his circle , among them the defence minister , some of his economic advisers and Chinese tycoons who control four-fifths of the country 's private industry . |
| 12 | Dickens has often been criticised for his portrayal of dying children ; John Carey describes him as ‘ a manufacturer of model children , pious little monsters , moribund and adult . ’ |
| 13 | The Tory poster campaign , too , has been criticised for being too backward looking and negative . |
| 14 | At more than 18 hands , Party Politics , who was the tallest of Saturday 's 40 runners , had been criticised for being ungainly . |
| 15 | Official statistics have often been criticised for counting only the wait between first specialist consultation and treatment , although the department says it would be misleading to include patients before they have been fully assessed . |
| 16 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 17 | The band have often been criticised for their imperious stance , especially in relation to early material and the decision to stop playing encores . |
| 18 | In the past the CEGB had been criticised for its lack of foresight in building high operating cost oil-fired stations and expensive nuclear stations in the face of cheaply fuelled coal-fired stations . |
| 19 | Working for patients has been criticised for failing to emphasise the importance of people and not being more specific about the need for personnel management . |
| 20 | The present Type 22s , such as HMS Broadsword and Brilliant , which shot down several Argentinian aircraft with Seawolf missiles , have long been criticised for their puny armament . |
| 21 | The DES has nevertheless been criticised for not giving enough training to teachers and for not providing adequate computer programs for the classroom . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've certainly been criticised for that . |
| 23 | This election campaign has been criticised for being negative . |
| 24 | I have been criticised for being a distant figure who lives in a style of luxury that Britain can not afford . |
| 25 | I have been criticised for doing a job that is irrelevant in a society in which so many are struggling . |
| 26 | ‘ After all one of the things I have done , and been criticised for doing , is making many changes in style to see what works . |
| 27 | Andrewes has also been criticised for abandoning his parish during the plague , and , above all , for his subservience to the King . |
| 28 | I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative . |
| 29 | In the past , it has been criticised for poor graphics . |
| 30 | The National Gallery has also been criticised for trying to insure the entire exhibition with the help of an indemnity reserved for foreign loans . |