Example sentences of "they have be [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No they have n't , they 'd been bought a car that had been like , that it sort of been written off and rebuilt or something like that . |
| 2 | They 've been given a fortnight to find £8,000 . |
| 3 | Martin and Koda plan just as ambitious a schedule of costume exhibitions at their new home — three per year — and they say they 've been given a mandate to do that . |
| 4 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 5 | They 've been promised a Dickens ' of a time . |
| 6 | I I do n't wish to , to quibble but is actually a cost minus basis industry is not being paid its full costs for this programme , they 've been paid a percentage less than the cost they actually incur . |
| 7 | They were ragged and cowed , but they had been given a bed for the night and an enforced bath . |
| 8 | They had been given a family room , from which Monsieur Gauthier had obligingly removed one of the three single beds in order to provide the space Iris required for her daily yoga session . |
| 9 | They had been given a meal there but had refused to stay overnight . |
| 10 | They could not ‘ observe ’ until they had been given an idea of what to look at and what to look for . |
| 11 | Some of the 120 rebels claimed that they had been granted an amnesty , but an official spokesman stated that all had surrendered unconditionally and could face charges of treason , a capital offence . |
| 12 | If a group of young people , from all races , all countries and bearing all creeds were gathered together after having been introduced to the concept of the Created God , and were able to set aside , for the time being , their own taught beliefs , they would find that they had been offered an area of religious discussion which would be on completely neutral ground . |
| 13 | Labour frontbenchers said they had been shown a note written by Sir Terence Heiser , Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment , to Nicholas Ridley , the then Secretary of State . |
| 14 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 15 | For many women , it 's the first time they have been given a responsibility of this kind . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , despite the necessity to protect children from being misled by the stories of ‘ heaven ’ and miracles , it should be made quite clear to them that most of the stories of good works attributed to the people involved are most likely to be true , and as these people are believed to have done much more good than most , they have been given a place in the windows of the churches and in paintings and elsewhere . |
| 17 | They have been given a confidence and liveliness through the influence of a common interpretation of Quantum Theory . |
| 18 | And they have been given a plastic card to carry itemising the major banned drugs . |
| 19 | Since 1970 they have been given an allowance for secretarial and research assistance . |
| 20 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB and Italtel SpA say that they have been awarded a contract by Stet-Hellas SA , one of Greece 's two mobile telephone operators , for Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular phone equipment worth $62.5m : the order includes exchanges , control systems , and radio base stations . |
| 21 | They have been offered a choice . |