Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes had been rubbed a raw red by fatigue and cold and had a harried glitter . |
| 2 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 3 | Charlemagne thought that the Byzantine emperors had been denied the Roman empire , which had been conferred on him instead ( 800 ) , because they had shown the pride of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon , not least in allowing images of themselves to be idolatrously venerated . |
| 4 | When all the books had been read the local reader lost interest . |
| 5 | But the scale of the tragedy exposed by Michael Buerk and his BBC camera crew , and the response it provoked in the no-bullshit , energetic , passionately caring rock musician Bob Geldof meant that old-world attitudes towards the plight of helpless peoples have been given the biggest jolt since the anti-slavery campaigns of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Ski survey readers have been offered a reduced rate at the Aviemore Highlands , a 4* luxury hotel in the town centre ( with a skibus stop right outside ) . |
| 7 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 8 | In the past week any number of interested parties have been granted the 30 second television sound bite in order to voice an opinion or two about the way English should be taught in our schools . |
| 9 | LAURENCEKIRK , Turriff and East Wemyss Branches have been voted the best in Scotland — and the best in Britain — by Royal Bank customers . |
| 10 | To test this hypothesis , six methanogenic subjects have been fed a low sulphate diet for 34 days supplemented with sodium sulphate from day 11 to 20 . |
| 11 | ‘ Needless to say , ’ adds our man with the scales of justice , ‘ the remaining frogs have been found a new home by the Tees . ’ |
| 12 | Once the two basic shapes have been created a single point is selected on each object using the blend tool and the program then creates the required number of ‘ in-between ’ stages . |
| 13 | Aid for environmental planning in developing countries has been designated a top priority . |
| 14 | A woman who has shivered through two winters and still faced large gas bills has been told the wrong meter was being read . |
| 15 | Even after peasant representation had been abruptly cut in 1907 , and the nobles had been guaranteed a virtual veto against undesirable peasant candidates , the peasant deputies elected to the Third and Fourth Dumas remained unshakeable on the land question . |
| 16 | Parents have been given a bigger role than ever before . |
| 17 | To ensure confidentiality of information sources , companies have been given the following tags . |
| 18 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 19 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 20 | Three years later her efforts have not gone unrewarded : both companies have been awarded the Small Firms Merit Award for Research and Technology ( SMART ) by the Department of Trade and Industry and the charity , Research in Cancer Immunology , has built up a capital base of £35,000 . |
| 21 | Her loose silk smock had been raised , while the elastic waistband of her matching trousers had been lowered a few inches so that her pale abdomen , not yet beginning to swell with the new life inside her , was ready to be smeared lightly with the gel that would facilitate the task of finding the tiny heartbeat . |
| 22 | * Technical note : like last week to ensure a fair contest , all extracts have been given the same epistolary format that Bragg used in A Time To Dance . |
| 23 | The gymnasium , swimming pool and even classrooms have been given a new lease of life as part of a timeshare development — such facilities having been a positive attraction to buyers . |
| 24 | The demonstrations came temporarily to an end after a personal appeal by Gorbachev on 26 February , but a report that two Azerbaijanis had been killed the previous week led to an anti-Armenian riot on 28–29 February in the oil town of Sumgait in which 32 people were killed and 197 were injured , including more than 100 police officers . |
| 25 | A PAINT that fights bugs has been given the green light for use in ‘ sick ’ buildings . |
| 26 | Some thought that fundholding general practitioners had been given a perverse incentive not to spend money on their patients or even to be selective in the types of patient they enrolled on their list . |
| 27 | The emotive subject of rapes has been given a great deal of publicity , and every case of an alleged rape of a Serbian woman by an Albanian is used as a pretext for fierce agitation among the Serbian population . |
| 28 | Daum claimed that his players had been given the new sports designer drug Clenbuterol simply to heal persistent muscle injuries . |
| 29 | After the usual cost-trimming exercises have been accomplished the only thing left to do is to sell off some of the most profitable parts to raise cash . |
| 30 | Yet it is hardly likely that even if links had been made a ramshackle group of peasant armies using antiquated military techniques could have stood out for long against the Red Army . |