Example sentences of "have just [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rupert Bear is not only the world 's tallest hot air balloon and a leading children 's favourite since 1920 , he has just been appointed the National Trust 's young ‘ green ’ spokesman , or should one say spokesbear . |
| 2 | Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk . |
| 3 | The living room , originally furnished in rusty browns , has just been given a brighter look with soft peach paper and multi-striped curtains by Designers Guild . |
| 4 | A young teacher ( Class 3 ) has just been given a special award for the ‘ best classroom ’ in Francistown . |
| 5 | Christine has just been given the all clear … but only after an intensive five weeks of radiation treatment . |
| 6 | And the unique project has just been given the Royal seal of approval . |
| 7 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 8 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 9 | I 've just been doing the wrong question . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been told the same . |
| 11 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |
| 12 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 13 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 14 | Y-you … ’ she spluttered , and , loving him , found it absolutely beyond belief that he should believe that she and his cousin had just been having a fine old time . |
| 15 | The council 's plan to replace their Saturday shift with a standby system has infuriated the men whose bosses have just been given a big pay rise . |
| 16 | This is where the swans have been spending the regatta — at Egham just off the M25 in Surrey — it 's just been made the national swan sanctuary and has around 100 birds at any one time . |
| 17 | Kenan 's just been granted a 6-month visa , 4 months after the Nix 's first tried to bring him out of Bosnia . |
| 18 | Kenan 's just been granted a 6-month visa , 4 months after the Nix 's first tried to bring him out of Bosnia . |
| 19 | I had a dairy before , it 's just been updated a wee bit because I make slightly more cheeses than I used to make and it 'll make it er easier hopefully . |