Example sentences of "they have been [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I would like to think they 'd been supported the same as the boxing club , but after all the boxing club is for youths , and I think they 've got to look after the youths erm , try and find something for them to do , as much as erm , community |
| 2 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 3 | they 've been called the white Marxist Public Enemy ; hypocrites ; idealists ; patronising liberal males . |
| 4 | and I live in a place where there 's a lot of old people and they come round to us and they tell us they 've been scared the night after |
| 5 | If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number |
| 6 | After they had been given the coq au vin the waiter shovelled on to their plates , from a mysteriously divided dish , some wilted vegetables , and Richard recognised that tile moment had come to make his only point . |
| 7 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 8 | On the other hand , two large specimens of Pinus halepensis , the Aleppo pine , had escaped because , he imagined , they had been transplanted the previous year making no shoots that summer , thus faring better than other plants with tender new growth . |
| 9 | Mr Ben Ali had indicated some softening of his position towards the fundamentalists in an interview with visiting Arab journalists on Monday , saying that they had been offered the chance to open their own newspaper . |
| 10 | They were in a small audience chamber , and they had been excused the customary prostrations . |
| 11 | They had been told the main point — that Tildesley would make a profit for his ‘ warehousing ’ operation ( only fair , Le Roux claimed , since Tildesley took risks in buying the company , including the very real risk that Norton might never have raised the funds and he 'd stuck with FUS ) . |
| 12 | The military report claimed that when Georgian authorities protested to the Russian army headquarters in Gudauta , they had been told the attack had been to avenge shelling on Saturday of a Russian army unit . |
| 13 | The prehistoric trees looked as if they had been felled the day before , but they were as sterile as hot bricks from a kiln and probably one hundred and thirty million years old . |
| 14 | Blacks would have been better off now if , after being shipped to America in chains , they had been allowed the same freedom to prosper as willing immigrants were . |
| 15 | We 'd called at a house to install some concrete steps in the rear garden , and learnt that they had been burgled the previous night . |
| 16 | I actually said that there were relatively few anomalies and that if they had been addressed the tax would have found favour . |
| 17 | WGPT sales manager , announced at the conference that , as a result of co-operation between the two companies , they had been awarded the Shell Offshore Inc . |
| 18 | He returned late that afternoon , eager with the good news that they had been awarded the Rouen-Dieppe contract . |
| 19 | When the foundation removed twelve paintings on long-term loan to the museum , and sold the eight Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works at Christie 's , NY , in May 1989 , for $39.6 million ( including the 10% buyers ' premium ) , the museum sued for the money , claiming they had been promised the paintings . |
| 20 | As such they have been called the ‘ securities market line ’ . |
| 21 | They have been given the names of ‘ the mouse-pounce ’ , ‘ the bird-swat ’ and ‘ the fish-scoop ’ . |
| 22 | The verses seem to be saying that the disciples understand because they have been given the secrets of the mystery of the kingdom but everybody else is taught in parables so that it will confuse them and prevent them coming into the kingdom . |
| 23 | Every sales consultant has covered the basics ; they have been given the tools for success ; the Super Sales Grit ingredient takes you to where no sales-person has previously thought to go . |
| 24 | Semi-nomadic tribes live on the fringes of the notorious Empty Quarter desert , where they have been given the task by Sultan Qaboos and the World Wildlife Fund of reintroducing the rare Arabian Oryx ( antelope ) to its natural habitat . |
| 25 | Whether conscious or not of their own envy , the people in the most difficulty are those who feel they have been born the wrong sex — suspicious , or even quite clear , that their parents desperately wanted them to be the boy or girl they were not . |
| 26 | They have been granted the tenancy of a 71-acre county council holding at Underbank , Gawsworth , near Macclesfield . |
| 27 | Until now they have been spared the encounter with large ‘ megastores ’ , fast becoming commonplace in every major city . |
| 28 | However , as has been reported in International Crossroads , they have been awarded the 1993 World Cup Sevens , a decision which did not meet with general approval , and as there is a rebuilding programme at Murrayfield only 38,000 fans will be able to watch the tournament on each day . |
| 29 | They have been labelled the ‘ Egyptian ’ ( joined crucible ) and the ‘ Renaissance ’ or ‘ Cinquecento ’ ( separate crucible ) techniques . |
| 30 | Neither had practised archery before becoming immobile ; one of them had been taught the art at Pinderfields Hospital at Wakefield and had gone on to become captain of his club . |