Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have [been] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Finally , Dawn came here , where she 's been given practical and moral support .
2 Sun Microsystems has lost its vice president treasurer , Thomas Meredith , to Dell Computer , where he has been named chief financial officer .
3 Meikle [ 1990 ] Crim.L.R. 801 , where it had been made clear that prosecutors are fully entitled to bring any number of offences against a single defendant at different times and so cause to be in existence a number of custody time limits not coinciding wholly with one another .
4 The muted colours of Pavlos 's objects derives from the relation of the many cut edges to the printed colours of the paper , which are only visible where it has been spread open .
5 It is not know whether the Canadian forecast was available to the crew before departure from Keflavik although it had been issued prior to that time .
6 Even the gaping hole left by de Bonneval 's precipitate retreat on Belleville Ridge had been plugged before the over-cautious Germans could exploit it — although it had been left open for twelve hours .
7 If I 'd been educated proper , I expect I 'd be able to talk more , ’ said Dolly , ‘ specially if I 'ad good looks and not just a sort of orphanage face .
8 ‘ Carrington , I must admit I never much believed in any of this malarkey , but it looks as if I 've been proved wrong .
9 Supposing she 's been taken ill or something ?
10 And she knew that if she had been made welcome from the start , she would still want to be with them , in spite of this comparative luxury .
11 if you 'd been buried alive you think
12 If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome .
13 However , if you have been made redundant or are long-term unemployed you need to understand the thinking behind the interviewer 's prejudices and strive to overcome them by demonstrating strongly that you are unemployed because of circumstances beyond your control , not because you yourself are inadequate .
14 To summarize : if you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long period :
15 However , if you have been made redundant from a skilled or semi-skilled job you are eligible .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 If they had been found guilty , they could have gone to jail .
19 Oh , we got plenty of help , and of course , it 's always been said that you do n't reveal a man 's past until he 's been found guilty of an offence , but our magistrates were all local shopkeepers you know
20 Like he 'd been cut open and died and I put my hand in all among his intestines . ’
21 Lawton ended the conversation saying he would be back ‘ tomorrow ’ [ Friday ] to see if it had been put right .
22 He could remember the first time that he 'd stepped outside into country darkness and closed the door behind him ; it was as if he 'd been struck blind with the click of the latch , and he 'd begun to panic at his inability even to tell which way was up .
23 Panic may often set in , with the fishkeeper not really knowing what to do and wondering whether it 's his fault , or if he has been sold sick fish .
24 Cos you do you 've not been anywhere unless you 've been made bankrupt in this place round here .
25 Even though he had accepted general responsibility for his company 's operations , and would probably have agreed to print the books had the decision been referred to him , he could not be convicted unless he had been given specific notice of the offensive material .
26 Building societies will , generally , be sympathetic if you ask to suspend your mortgage payments for a fixed period because you have been made redundant or because you have a crisis .
27 One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors .
28 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 ) .
29 But the number joining the register because they had been made jobless dropped 25,700 to 352,400 .
30 Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities .
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