Example sentences of "they [vb base] [been] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 2 | They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 3 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 4 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 5 | But then , perhaps all chicks get to look like that , when they 've been raped a few thousand times . |
| 6 | They 've been restoring a battered old narrowboat . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If they have been taking a prescribed drug this is likely to have been methadone , and if the daily dose can be established this can be prescribed . |
| 13 | Since then they have been effecting a gradual programme of repair , restoration and alteration . |
| 14 | Women are particularly vulnerable to diseases such as arthritis , osteoporosis ( brittle-bone disease ) and heart attacks in their middle years if they have been leading a sedentary life , sitting slumped in front of the television , losing muscle tone and even bone mass . |
| 15 | ‘ They have been doing a fantastic job putting the Berlitz name in a leading position since the move from Lausanne and through the process of merger with Fukutake , ’ said Mr Kirkpatrick . |
| 16 | No doubt they have been promised a good party in return . |
| 17 | They have been fighting a real war , a race war , a class war , a war over resources and territory , a war in which real children die every day , a war nobody can win because no territory is conquered and the body counts do not mean victory . |
| 18 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |