Example sentences of "they have [been] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know but it 's just , waste of time in it ? they 'd been better spent to finish the order that they did have , and inject that , ha oh be fair to do that to use though , no doubt they will , pick out all the things we did n't do right bloody should done too many of this or not enough of that |
| 2 | They had been wonderfully blessed to have had so long in this lovely place . |
| 3 | They had been deliberately set to defer the explosions . |
| 4 | This usually means little pruning and , potentially even more serious , since large problems frequently have to be terminated before they have been completely solved to avoid excessive computation time , frontier search may provide no solution at all . |
| 5 | They have been formally invited to ring Dick Lloyd , the deputy chairman , to vent their spleen . |
| 6 | They have been cruelly used to put a most unhealthy fear of God into people , or in very recent times in this country to offer absurd explanations for a fire in a cathedral , to denigrate an outspoken bishop , or to hound homosexuals and those suffering from AIDS . |