Example sentences of "they have [been] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The unwary were apt to buy a ‘ pig in a poke ’ ( sack ) and find out later they 'd been sold a muted pup .
2 They 've been gone a good while . ’
3 They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future .
4 Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association .
5 And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving .
6 But then , perhaps all chicks get to look like that , when they 've been raped a few thousand times .
7 When the cameras had long since departed , I was left to carry the can and answer any angry participants who felt they had been given a raw deal .
8 Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it .
9 Astute team that they were — from Kylie herself , through father Ron and Svengali Blamey to PR people Sally Atkins and the McCright brothers Ron and Rob — they were aware they had been dealt a one-off set of cards .
10 More satisfied than if they had been handed a big discount on a plate .
11 She was born when they had been married a few years .
12 The dispute was still continuing in 1637 : the lessees of the disafforested lands complained that ‘ the people of the country adjacent will not pay any considerable rent for what they say have been their commons ’ , although they had been allotted a considerable share of the forest wastes in lieu of common rights .
13 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 .
14 Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life .
15 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 .
16 Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past .
17 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 .
18 No doubt they have been promised a good party in return .
19 They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs .
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