Example sentences of "we have been [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Actually I was really happy about that , not just because we 'd been made Singe Of The Week , but because it was a woman reviewing the singles — and they 're a lot harder to please . |
| 2 | We 've been given Lego and we 're learning to put things together in new ways . |
| 3 | TWICE in 24 hours we 've been shown letters from Ossie Ardiles , written in the week of his barbaric departure . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been washed way inland . |
| 5 | We 've been offered hospice places but that 's not the way we want to do things . |
| 6 | Although the first fruits of this decision took place in l982 , the writing had been on the wall , and read by us many years before that , and it took a period of some years to find a way of moving out of polythene , which was not only ICI 's own proud invention , but an area where we had been acknowledged world leaders for many years . |
| 7 | The officers made much of us children : the Marine band played on deck and the captain fired off one of the guns , after we had been given cotton wool to stuff in our ears . |
| 8 | ‘ We had been given flight clearance . ’ |
| 9 | We had been given books and we soon began learning . |
| 10 | Certainly we had been given dominion over them , but that did n't mean we had to go cramming their little corpses down our necks like there 's no tomorrow when soya beans and wheat mountains rise up from Mother Earth like a sign saying : Meat is Murter . |
| 11 | We had been quoted £60 per quare foot and reckoned out costs would be around £35 , a saving of about £25 per quare foot — £3,500 ! |
| 12 | ‘ At least with the cancer , we had been told Thomas had a 50/50 chance , ’ says Beverley . |
| 13 | Because we have been made children of God ; we carry the family likeness through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit ; we want to live so as to please our Heavenly Father ; and we enjoy his Fatherly protection and generous provision . |
| 14 | ‘ We have been given reassurances that the water is safe to drink and it was just the long hot summer but we are not so sure . |
| 15 | We have been granted city status , the Polytechnic is to become a university and Sunderland are on their way to Wembley . |
| 16 | The United Kingdom has quite as much skill and technical resources as France , yet we have been worsted time and again by the French in the field of space , simply because the French have a centrally directed , planned , national space programme and we have not . |
| 17 | Coun Carr told the policy and resources meeting , which set a tax of £353 : ‘ We have been short-changed £800,000 by the Government and that has inevitably had an effect on the level of the charge . |
| 18 | ‘ I also want to point out we have been refused access to the match referee 's and umpires ’ reports as to the reasons for the change of ball on August 23 . ’ |
| 19 | For some time we have been promised legislation to reform the laws on friendly societies . |
| 20 | We have been promised access to our health records and waiting lists which are no longer than 18 months . |
| 21 | We have been promised access to our health records and waiting lists which are no longer than 18 months . |
| 22 | ‘ As you are fully aware , we have been promised delivery of all the office equipment on the fifth , two days from now . |