Example sentences of "they have been [vb pp] a " 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 | The unwary were apt to buy a ‘ pig in a poke ’ ( sack ) and find out later they 'd been sold a muted pup . |
| 3 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 4 | They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 5 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 8 | They 've been given a fortnight to find £8,000 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They 've been promised a Dickens ' of a time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But then , perhaps all chicks get to look like that , when they 've been raped a few thousand times . |
| 13 | They were ragged and cowed , but they had been given a bed for the night and an enforced bath . |
| 14 | They had been given a meal there but had refused to stay overnight . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They could not ‘ observe ’ until they had been given an idea of what to look at and what to look for . |
| 18 | Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | More satisfied than if they had been handed a big discount on a plate . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She was born when they had been married a few years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 30 | 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 . |