Example sentences of "they have been [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 50,000 children are admitted into hospital each year because they have been drinking harmful products . |
| 2 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 3 | They have been called magic bullets because of their use in the treatment of cancer . |
| 4 | In the last 20 years they have been using invisible nylon gill nets half a mile long and more . |
| 5 | Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks ' severance pay . |
| 6 | Sources said they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks severance . |
| 7 | The recent Toyne Report ‘ Environmental Responsibility , An Agenda for Further and Higher Education ’ , commissioned by the DoE and the Welsh Office states , ‘ Everybody has some scope for doing his or her job in a more environmentally responsible way , and needs to understand the importance of this … but may well need more than this , either because they have been given specific responsibilities within their organisation , or simply because their organisation 's environmental impact is heavily dependent on the way they carry out their day-to-day tasks , and on the decisions which they have to take . ’ |
| 8 | They are the seeds produced by the fern-like plants such as Mariopteris , but because they are difficult to link with their foliage they have been given separate names . |
| 9 | Mr Andrews believes they have been accepted this year because they are running as a family team . |
| 10 | Permission to offer switched services is unlikely to be denied , but the resale of International Virtual Network services will present more problems , as US carriers feel that they have been denied reciprocal access to the UK , where interconnect , access-deficit and leased line charges are higher than in the US . |
| 11 | They have been pestering other UN agencies , embassies and local traders , so far without success . |
| 12 | They have been paying ridiculous rents of up to DM120 for the little decent office space that now exists in eastern Berlin — about twice as much as they would pay for similar space in the western part of the city . |
| 13 | They have been protecting dissident groups and appealing for non-violence . |
| 14 | ‘ They have been leading separate lives for years now . |
| 15 | By Claire 's watch they have been waiting eleven minutes . |
| 16 | They have been promised permanent showing : they have been given carefully considered hanging , and in some cases have chosen the position themselves ; their works are set off with surprising poise by the predominantly green and white college buildings and gardens , a complex severe and playful at once , severe in its geometry and playful in its romanesque quotations . |
| 17 | As they have been fighting each other on much of it , any agreement to stop must represent progress . |
| 18 | XYZ Foods are well-known for their pioneering work in the field of slimming foods and they have been researching this pack for the last year . |
| 19 | So Iraq has now formally asked the Turks to shorten the cut-off period but the Turks reply that they have been releasing more water down the river and the Iraquis should have been able to build up stocks . |
| 20 | They have been backing smaller movies in previous years , but now things are changing . |
| 21 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 22 | Some of them have been getting strong criticism lately . |