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 | 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 . |
9 | More satisfied than if they had been handed a big discount on a plate . |
10 | She was born when they had been married a few years . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | No doubt they have been promised a good party in return . |
18 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |