Example sentences of "we have [be] [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As far as council support goes , we 've been granted the use of both the station centre itself , so that we can have a retail outlet for furniture , bric-a-brac , books , the kind of thing that might go to landfill , but which people might very well want to use . |
2 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |
3 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
4 | er sent us a photograph after the war was over , but since then , since we 've tried to find him , we 've been told the man 's never existed at all . |
5 | I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding . |
6 | We had been taught the history of the organisation , and each day were learning more about its curious codes of morality and behaviour . |
7 | Because we have been given the possibility of sight , it is no surprise when we are inconsolable if we have no eyesight . |
8 | I believe that we have been given the right to have dominion over animals . |
9 | We have been given the status , resources and expertise to do so — on both sides of the Channel . |
10 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
11 | Now that we have been offered the choice and the opportunity to buy produce that has n't been sprayed or hybridised , it does seem reasonable to expect that flavour will return . |
12 | In return , we have been allowed the role of ‘ mother 's little helper ’ , and our services are being relied upon to support the public . |
13 | This is a wide er feeling and er a feeling of great anger er because only recently we have been told the truth of how this money was used . |
14 | GERRY Barron-Fox , newly appointed director of our Facilities Management Service , was delighted recently to announce that we have been awarded the contract for the management of multiple support activities at BP sites throughout Dorset and at Sherwood House , BP Wytch Farm . |
15 | In addition , WGPT 's Permanent Downhole Readout product line has excellent potential for the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico , as evidenced by how quickly we have been awarded the Tahoe project contract by Shell in New Orleans ’ . |