Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As a book reviewer of some 25 years experience I am not , and never will be , of the school that thinks that because you have been given a free book , you should give a good review . |
| 32 | She was to be proved right , as we had been taught a Spartan routine for our babies at ‘ Alderbourne Arches ’ the pre-natal training unit . |
| 33 | We reluctantly cancelled our holiday and we have been offered a full refund . |
| 34 | We have been allocated a flat and I hope we can live a normal life in spite of the past . |
| 35 | We have been shown a large number of the judges ' orders which are reproduced in Dugdale 's Origines Juridiciales , 3rd ed. ( 1680 ) , ch. 70–72 . |
| 36 | The unwary were apt to buy a ‘ pig in a poke ’ ( sack ) and find out later they 'd been sold a muted pup . |
| 37 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 38 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 39 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 40 | Deep inside her had been awakened a nameless , primitive fear that at first had ached away in the background , but slowly had grown more evident , more pronounced , like a stared-at , half-perceived figure in the shadowy corner of a bedroom . |
| 41 | When the cameras had long since departed , I was left to carry the can and answer any angry participants who felt they had been given a raw deal . |
| 42 | Astute team that they were — from Kylie herself , through father Ron and Svengali Blamey to PR people Sally Atkins and the McCright brothers Ron and Rob — they were aware they had been dealt a one-off set of cards . |
| 43 | More satisfied than if they had been handed a big discount on a plate . |
| 44 | The dispute was still continuing in 1637 : the lessees of the disafforested lands complained that ‘ the people of the country adjacent will not pay any considerable rent for what they say have been their commons ’ , although they had been allotted a considerable share of the forest wastes in lieu of common rights . |
| 45 | Complacency about recession could destroy the Tories yet : they have been given a sharp warning by the electorate and they disregard it at their peril . |
| 46 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 47 | In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant . |
| 48 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
| 49 | The former ought to be more prominently displayed , the article says , so that patients are n't confused about whether they have been given a different type of medicine when collecting subsequent prescriptions . |
| 50 | No doubt they have been promised a good party in return . |
| 51 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
| 52 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
| 53 | Even at the time of his admission and immediately prior to surgery when he has been given a great deal of information , his overriding concern is how he will cope with a stoma and whether he will be able to manage at home . |
| 54 | Taylor pointed out one of the things about great players who are given freedom is that they work very hard , and Gascoigne is prepared to do that , even in the knowledge that he has been given a special licence . |
| 55 | A witness can not be asked in examination-in-chief about any previous statement made out of court which is inconsistent with his testimony unless he has been declared a hostile witness by the court . |
| 56 | He has been offered a full-time contract for July and has accepted . ’ |
| 57 | Now we can reveal he has been offered a new deal worth an EXTRA 2,000 a week . |
| 58 | Instead it has been given a new imprimatur and left on the old job . |
| 59 | Now this woman had always been aware of the as a child , she had always known it , it had n't be unconscious in the sense she 'd forgotten it , but it had been isolated , it has been given a new name , and ca unfortunately I ca n't remember what it was , but it was , it was completely er innocuous , the name was the term she used was totally innocuous . |
| 60 | So valuable has the dating of tephra become that it has been given a specific name — tephrochronology . |