Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately contracts have been exchanged the exact redemption figure should be obtained from the mortgagee . |
| 2 | Worth a visit , too , is the topknot quarry , a small volcanic vent of vivid hue from which have been excavated the ruddy cylinders weighing up to tens of tons . |
| 3 | The 1990s have been declared the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction . |
| 4 | To ensure confidentiality of information sources , companies have been given the following tags . |
| 5 | Staff have been given the effective reward of being valued through a positive acknowledgement of their competence providing a greater sense of identity and improving self-esteem . |
| 6 | What has tended to happen historically , with earlier attempts to provide alternatives to custody , is that instead of moving offenders currently receiving a sentence of imprisonment down-tariff , in this case to some form of punishment in the community , down-tariff offenders — those who formerly were dealt with by a fine or conditional discharge — have been given the new sentence . |
| 7 | NORTHERN Ireland butchers have been given the good news they can compete in a major English contest to find the country 's top sausage-maker . |
| 8 | The justification ( in addition to the desire not to increase the department 's work load ) is that local authorities are elected bodies which have been given the legal power to decide . |
| 9 | Those principles reflect our conviction that Britain has done best when the people of Britain have been given the personal incentive to succeed . |
| 10 | FOUR Hereford players were sent off yesterday in their 1-1 draw at Northampton — the first time in British history four players from one side have been given the red card . |
| 11 | CHANGES to the law on damages in Scotland have been given the Royal Assent after a campaign to help the families of workers dying from asbestos-related diseases . |
| 12 | District nurses and health visitors who have been given the statutory power to prescribe treatments may not be given the authority to do so by their employers . |
| 13 | This second stage is carried out in public speech to which we have been given the decoding key , and from our privileged perspective the success of the hypocrite has unfortunate consequences for the dupe . |
| 14 | Erm and those people who have been asked the specific question , Would you pay a premium price for this water as against that which you 're drinking ? said yes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The frequency of this rhythmic activity is determined by a group of cells on the greater curvature which have been called the gastric pacemaker . |
| 17 | What can be done about discrimination against Travellers , given that travelling people in the Glen Road have been denied the fundamental right of official halting sites which should have been provided by Belfast City Council ? |
| 18 | We have been denied the exhilarating late ‘ minuet ’ tempos of Haydn and Mozart … |
| 19 | I have been made the Cultural Counsellor of the Italian Embassy , for example . |
| 20 | Four staff from Stokesley sausage manufacturers Mr Lazenby 's have been awarded the Introductory Certificate in Supervisory Management . |
| 21 | Three years later her efforts have not gone unrewarded : both companies have been awarded the Small Firms Merit Award for Research and Technology ( SMART ) by the Department of Trade and Industry and the charity , Research in Cancer Immunology , has built up a capital base of £35,000 . |
| 22 | Three of our gallant Polish allies , two of them airmen and RAFA members , have been awarded the Polish Cross by the present Polish Government in recognition of their war efforts . |
| 23 | In fact we have been so good at it that we have been awarded the RCI Gold Star for the second year running . |
| 24 | After the usual cost-trimming exercises have been accomplished the only thing left to do is to sell off some of the most profitable parts to raise cash . |
| 25 | Table 6.2 shows the number of addresses that have been allocated the stated number of records per address ( up to seven ) , and the percentage of the total number of records in the file that was successfully allocated by each of the six algorithms used by Kaimann . |
| 26 | The reason is United have been allocated the entire East End . |
| 27 | Once the population trends have been estimated the complex process of predicting future household formations and thus new housing requirements , takes place . |
| 28 | The release of platelet-derived material and the profound biochemical and morphological changes that occur after platelet stimulation have been termed the platelet-release reaction ( Grette , 1962 ) . |
| 29 | Since 1961 twenty other nations have signed the Treaty , of which six have been acquired the special consultative status accorded to nations that are active in research . |
| 30 | Answer guide : The point being illustrated here is that although we have been told the finite life of the machine and we are aware of the reasons for the loss in utility we still have to make estimates of when the machine will cease to be useful . |