Example sentences of "and they [verb] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah and they 've been given out ? |
| 2 | Two men have been killed by undercover troops in Northern Ireland today , and they 've been named as top I R A hit man and former Sinn Fein coun , and a former Sinn Fein councillor . |
| 3 | They 've been retyped and they 've been called erm , procedures . |
| 4 | They 've not said a word on the rest of the industry and in fact wo n't say it and they 've been pressed very very hard on what the future entails for the rest of the coal field . |
| 5 | It 's when the family come in and they 've been prepared by a doctor whose speciality it is , and they have lists of things that they have witnessed you do , that have embarrassed and humiliated them . |
| 6 | Erm , Joan and Sheila very kindly volunteered to wash all the curtains in here and they 've been done . |
| 7 | Because they 're a year younger than I am , two years younger and they 've been registered now for six , seven , eight , or nine years . |
| 8 | They 've bought up two hundred thousand tonnes of the crop … and they 've been asked to fork out for another two hundred fifty thousand tonnes . |
| 9 | Yes there 's been many cases where lesbian and gay couples have left a gay bar , have given each other a goodnight kiss at a bus stop or at a tube station or in the street and they 've been arrested under public decency laws and dragged through the courts and fined up to £200 . |
| 10 | I have good teeth and they 've been known to blind at five yards in strong sunlight . |
| 11 | Now we 've actually found seventy thousand pounds worth of savings we have n't made anybody redundant and we 've actually quite clearly taken in that seventy thousand pounds within our overall budget past decisions has had to be taken and they 've been taken as I said earlier hopefully when the financial climate gets better we perhaps we 'll be able to other things all or were revert back to things that we we do wish to do because the the financial restraints on us . |
| 12 | Erm , you know , if they 're sitting there in water and they 've been peeled and they 're ready to cook , they wo n't be cooked until they 're needed to be cooked , you know . |
| 13 | erm a sister who sends out wonderful letters and they 've been published , and my husband he calls , you know , whenever he can . |
| 14 | But no charges have been brought and they 've been released on police bail . |
| 15 | No charges have been brought , and they 've been released on police bail . |
| 16 | And I was hoping to cos I can quote you instances where people have trained in the health service , and they 've been told nineteen seventy four seventy five , when you complete your training , you 're not guaranteed a job in this health authority . |
| 17 | Erm , and they 've been told that we might not be making any appointment at all ? |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Erm the only thing is what does happen occasionally is somebody comes from the D S S offices and they 've been told , I need a B one . |
| 20 | Local residents in Wootton have become increasingly worried that high-intensity paint spraying will bring unpleasant smells and health hazards to the area , and they 've been backed up by local M P , John Patten as well as the Vale of White Horse District Council , whose planning committee have voted to stop Hartwells expanding their Wootton site into what they described as an industrial park . |
| 21 | that area is reddish anyway , when you 'll , and they 've been washed you see , they 've been rinsed off in water , to get all the muck off , and then put in bags of ten cos when you touch them you get all this red stuff all on you , red muck , |
| 22 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |
| 23 | There could hardly be a more serious accusation than these particular killings and they had been given renewed publicity by the secretary of state 's broadcast of only four weeks earlier . |
| 24 | In several respects , though , the fate of Black Fury had confirmed basic Warner Bros notions and they continued to pick up ideas for movies from the daily papers , they went on believing that social melodrama could be profitable , and they had been given further evidence that Muni could win acclaim by projecting himself as a hard-done-by but eventually triumphant saint . |
| 25 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 26 | The Suffolk police had begun hunting up previous owners of Wyvis Hall and they had been alerted that a Verne-Smith lived in their area . |
| 27 | There was no covert there larger than an acre or two and they had been placed as much for their scenic effect as for their game-preserving role . |
| 28 | The two assassins had joined the crew of the navy rescue expedition which had followed the escape pod down from the survey vessel from which it had been ejected , and they had been prevented from finishing off both their intended victim and the accidental witnesses only because of the timely intervention of a Yek patrol . |
| 29 | There were things to be done , and they had been done , and everything was inexplicable . |
| 30 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |