Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although in law a female fiancée can enter Britain quite freely ( without an entry certificate ) she had been held up , questioned again and again , and late in the evening she had been given a sexual examination by officials who she thought might be doctors . |
| 32 | She had been given a plain black dress with a crisp white apron and a mob-cap . |
| 33 | She had been called a despicable woman , a scarlet creature , a hussy , a jessy , and on the occasions when her father had taken drink , much worse . |
| 34 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 35 | Make everyone stand in a circle and explain that you have been granted a special power which places people under your spell . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | In both cases you have been given an explicit and specific purpose and your notes should be deter-mined by this task . |
| 38 | ‘ You will probably have realised that , due to an administrative error in our payroll section , you have been given an extra day 's pay … instead of having a day 's pay deducted . ’ |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | We reluctantly cancelled our holiday and we have been offered a full refund . |
| 41 | We have been allocated a flat and I hope we can live a normal life in spite of the past . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | The unwary were apt to buy a ‘ pig in a poke ’ ( sack ) and find out later they 'd been sold a muted pup . |
| 44 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 45 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 46 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | More satisfied than if they had been handed a big discount on a plate . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | No doubt they have been promised a good party in return . |
| 59 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
| 60 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |