Example sentences of "[conj] they have [been] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 2 | On May 12 the director of the Lima morgue showed reporters the bodies of 36 people whose autopsies apparently showed that they had been shot dead after the siege had finished . |
| 3 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 4 | Permission to offer switched services is unlikely to be denied , but the resale of International Virtual Network services will present more problems , as US carriers feel that they have been denied reciprocal access to the UK , where interconnect , access-deficit and leased line charges are higher than in the US . |
| 5 | There could hardly be a more serious accusation than these particular killings and they had been given renewed publicity by the secretary of state 's broadcast of only four weeks earlier . |
| 6 | Mind , not everybody 's got the money to erm pay for jobs have they , today , if they 've been made redundant they have n't got the money . |
| 7 | Always the money that had not arrived , always the arrears of pay causing disaffection , and even if they had been sent substantial tallies on regional treasuries or port taxation officers , still the endless complaint that the money simply was not there to meet the bills . |
| 8 | If they had been found guilty , they could have gone to jail . |
| 9 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 10 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 11 | But the number joining the register because they had been made jobless dropped 25,700 to 352,400 . |
| 12 | Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities . |
| 13 | When the experience itself arrives , the hazards will be attenuated because they have been made familiar by being anticipated , and the individuals will already have been set on the path of healthy coping responses . |
| 14 | The recent Toyne Report ‘ Environmental Responsibility , An Agenda for Further and Higher Education ’ , commissioned by the DoE and the Welsh Office states , ‘ Everybody has some scope for doing his or her job in a more environmentally responsible way , and needs to understand the importance of this … but may well need more than this , either because they have been given specific responsibilities within their organisation , or simply because their organisation 's environmental impact is heavily dependent on the way they carry out their day-to-day tasks , and on the decisions which they have to take . ’ |
| 15 | By the same logic , can it be right to send people to prison because they have been found guilty of drunkenness , vagrancy , offences related to prostitution , and drug offences ( of whom there were nearly 900 men and 100 women in 1981 ) ? |
| 16 | For it was in St Jude 's Passage that such corpses as were picked up in Frizingley — whether they had been reported missing or not — were usually found . |
| 17 | That seems to me , a very evil thing , if people are kept in prison for months before they 've been found guilty . |
| 18 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 19 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 20 | A Christian Science couple in Boston were sentenced to 10 years ' probation on July 6 after they had been found guilty of the manslaughter of their two-year-old son in 1986 . |
| 21 | It is this ability to regenerate that reduces many a garden enthusiast to tears when new flushes of dodder appear , as if from nowhere , on favourite hedges even after they have been pruned bare to get rid of it . |
| 22 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 23 | Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) . |
| 24 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |