Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have [been] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say they 've been promised full consultation with the college 's governing body before a final decisionis made — and so far that has n't happened . |
| 2 | Section 2 of the Act expands on the meaning of " new " and says that an invention is new if it does not form part of the " state of the art " ; this expression comprises all matter which has been made available to the public in the United Kingdom or elsewhere , by written or oral description , by use or in any other way . |
| 3 | Mair interviewed a clutch of former BR executives who claimed they had been made redundant for pressing their inquiries too closely , and the understandably defensive chairman of British Rail 's Parcels Board , Gordon Pettitt , who admitted that things had gone wrong but could n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 4 | Only dimly , when the jar began to return to him more rapidly , did he realize he had been left alone with the mute pholy , and by then the women had begun striking their gongs and drums in a faster rhythm . |
| 5 | I know you 've been told different people different things . |
| 6 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 7 | But he did miss it ; he thought he had been born homesick ; he certainly thought he had spent most of his life waiting and longing and aching for the Bright Palace where his mother 's people had quarrelled and laughed and made love and war , and where the charming ruthless Wolfkings had woven Ireland 's history . |
| 8 | The Scentmakers ' Bazaar was not normally a place she would have allowed herself to have been seen dead in . |
| 9 | as two apostles of Jesus said we 've been declared righteous now by his word , the boy of Jesus God 's son |
| 10 | We do n't want them thinking they 've been sold short or rumbled . ’ |
| 11 | He said he had been made redundant . |
| 12 | Terry McLaughlin , its deputy editor , said he had been shown sensitive and detailed files by a representative of the ‘ Inner Circle ’ . |
| 13 | Terry McLaughlin , its deputy editor , said he had been shown sensitive and detailed files , including ‘ top secret ’ material , by a representative of the ‘ Inner Circle ’ . |
| 14 | Cos the last I see he 's been made redundant now has n't he ? |
| 15 | In an emotional response to the 2–0 defeat in Boston which piled on the agony after an identical scoreline in the World Cup in Norway a week earlier , Taylor knows he has been left naked to the most virulent attacks by media and fans . |