Example sentences of "[conj] they have been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And you can add to that the fact that a number of districts er have said that they 've been consulted five times by the County Council er on various erm population projections . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His assailants next told him that they had been given three pounds each ‘ to do you up tonight ’ by the ‘ drug squad ’ detective with whom he was already unpleasantly familiar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning . |
| 6 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On the following day , Stanley told the Finance Committee of the India Council that they had been offered this site , and pointed out the advantages of buying the land from the Government rather than obtaining a special Act of Parliament . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks ' severance pay . |
| 11 | And I was hoping to cos I can quote you instances where people have trained in the health service , and they 've been told nineteen seventy four seventy five , when you complete your training , you 're not guaranteed a job in this health authority . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And they 'd been commissioned both of them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ If the prints were undated or if they had been given younger dates most experts would probably accept them as have made by Homo , ’ said Russell Tuttle from the University of Chicago who has recently analysed casts of the footprints at the invitation of Mary Leakey . |
| 17 | If they had been found guilty , they could have gone to jail . |
| 18 | More recently the Solstice has attracted thousands of New Age travellers , but they 've been banned this year by the same injuctions that now govern Castlemorton common in Worcestershire , where an illegal festival just over a year ago attracted 20,000 travellers . |
| 19 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | But the number joining the register because they had been made jobless dropped 25,700 to 352,400 . |
| 22 | Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities . |
| 23 | Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 ) ? |
| 27 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That seems to me , a very evil thing , if people are kept in prison for months before they 've been found guilty . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's probably sour grapes after they 've been beaten 4-2 by nine men . |