Example sentences of "they [vb base] [been] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They 've been gone a good while . ’
2 they 've been called the white Marxist Public Enemy ; hypocrites ; idealists ; patronising liberal males .
3 And can I just comment on one point by Mr , he said about they 've been using the local government erm housing Act .
4 They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future .
5 Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association .
6 And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving .
7 They 've been testing the top-of-the-range model , the one with the voice activated selector , on site …
8 If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number
9 But then , perhaps all chicks get to look like that , when they 've been raped a few thousand times .
10 They 've been restoring a battered old narrowboat .
11 For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum .
12 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 .
13 Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life .
14 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 .
15 Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past .
16 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 .
17 Whether conscious or not of their own envy , the people in the most difficulty are those who feel they have been born the wrong sex — suspicious , or even quite clear , that their parents desperately wanted them to be the boy or girl they were not .
18 If they have been taking a prescribed drug this is likely to have been methadone , and if the daily dose can be established this can be prescribed .
19 Since then they have been effecting a gradual programme of repair , restoration and alteration .
20 Women are particularly vulnerable to diseases such as arthritis , osteoporosis ( brittle-bone disease ) and heart attacks in their middle years if they have been leading a sedentary life , sitting slumped in front of the television , losing muscle tone and even bone mass .
21 They have been doing a fantastic job putting the Berlitz name in a leading position since the move from Lausanne and through the process of merger with Fukutake , ’ said Mr Kirkpatrick .
22 However , as has been reported in International Crossroads , they have been awarded the 1993 World Cup Sevens , a decision which did not meet with general approval , and as there is a rebuilding programme at Murrayfield only 38,000 fans will be able to watch the tournament on each day .
23 No doubt they have been promised a good party in return .
24 They have been fighting a real war , a race war , a class war , a war over resources and territory , a war in which real children die every day , a war nobody can win because no territory is conquered and the body counts do not mean victory .
25 They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs .
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