Example sentences of "we have been [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been told by the guardian that the bolts on the climb were ‘ good . ’ |
| 2 | When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms . |
| 3 | Instead , meaning and order is imposed on our lives as our behaviour , experiences , thoughts , feelings , and so on , are transformed into statistical data and interpreted within a scientific framework to which we have no access unless we 've been trained in the technical language of psychology . |
| 4 | Heather Watts , buying and merchandising controller for High Street chain Sock Shop says ‘ We 've been affected by the shift in hemlines and women are now buying sheers rather than opaques . |
| 5 | If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently . |
| 6 | We 're acting like that because of the way we 've been treated in the past throughout the school . |
| 7 | And if we 've been filled with the Holy Spirit , then we should have the evidence to go with it . |
| 8 | Seems we 've been beaten to the week 's top rock'n'roll scoop yet again by The Star 's ever-incisive pop columnist LINDA DUFF . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been asked by the Cancer Research Campaign to press on as fast as possible . ’ |
| 10 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 11 | What we 've been shown in the Report , and what has , ah , emerged from this discussion , is that for some fifteen years , we engaged in a game of blind man 's buff . |
| 12 | At least that 's what we 've been told by the seat-cover suppliers , Courtaulds Textiles , which produces the terribly natty ‘ Renaissance ’ decor for Rover 's new Metro . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been caught in the middle a bit , ’ explains Billy . |
| 14 | Our Division has been mentioned in the news , and we 've been patted on the head by Montgomery . |
| 15 | We had been defeated by the surreal , mock execution and chocky bickies . |
| 16 | When we got in touch with the Colonel a surprisingly easy task , the military communications network superbly efficient — it turned out we had been landed at the wrong port . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought we had been hit in the starboard wing ’ , said the pilot F/O M G Johnson , of Geelong , Victoria , Australia . |
| 18 | Hamilton greeted him with emotional thanks and immediately surrendered our papers : our little Nansen passport , our Portuguese visa , even the ticket coupon with which we had been issued at the harbour of Salerno . |
| 19 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 20 | We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before . |
| 21 | ‘ This is typical of the way we have been treated since the days of mass vesting of land , much of which was surplus to requirements . ’ |
| 22 | And as a result we have been treated to the delightful sight of Princess Diana in a variety of stunning swimming costumes . |
| 23 | We have been consulted on the content of this plan and we also attended a special seminar run by the DoE at Green College Oxford . |
| 24 | For fourteen years we have been bashed by the Tories , we have been led by a pound of poof T U C and as now it 's time to stand up and be counted . |
| 25 | But Birmingham secretary Alan Jones said : ‘ We have been instructed by the receiver to call an EGM with the resolution that the Kumar brothers be removed from their office as directors . ’ |
| 26 | We have been instructed by the Malawian authorities who are responsible for our fees and nobody else is . ’ |
| 27 | We have been asked over the years to vote for a freeze on medical school places when juniors were unemployed , for more manpower when they were overworked , and for more consultants when they were having problems with their careers . |
| 28 | We have been asked by the County Council to do these works and as far as we are concerned we will comply with them . |
| 29 | WE have been asked by the owners of the Lal Qila restaurants in Bath Street , Southport and Red Lion Buildings , Liverpool Road North , Maghull , to make it clear that they have no connection with a takeaway of the same name which was the subject of court proceedings reported in Wednesday 's Echo . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend identifies precisely the problem with which we have been landed by the Government and British Rail . |