Example sentences of "they have [be] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though debt levels could be dramatically reduced through the sale of Pilkington 's Solaglass wing , for which they have been seeking a buyer . |
| 2 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And they have been given a plastic card to carry itemising the major banned drugs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For many women , it 's the first time they have been given a responsibility of this kind . |
| 10 | They have been given a confidence and liveliness through the influence of a common interpretation of Quantum Theory . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Since then they have been effecting a gradual programme of repair , restoration and alteration . |
| 13 | They have been spending a lot of money on training , but what they 're doing now is localizing it , so training for Oxfordshire , which is different from training for somewhere like Liverpool , it 's got a lot more unemployed , it 's now not in the hands of the old training agency or manpower service commission , and we are looking at it completely afresh . |
| 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 | Yes , they have been doing a number of things in the past , I think the Y T S or new youth training as it is now , was a good thing , it had a lot of criticism . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No doubt they have been promised a good party in return . |
| 19 | They have been having a moan and a groan recently . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The last time I heard from her she was planning to marry her live-in partner — they have been running a wholefood shop and café ! |
| 22 | They have been offered a choice . |
| 23 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |