Example sentences of "have been [verb] several [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Each two-person team has been given several overseas markets and told to get back as many packages as possible . |
| 2 | In the converse disorder , which unfortunately has been given several different names ( surface dysgraphia , phonological spelling , and lexical agraphia ) , the spelling to dictation of non-words is good , but words are commonly misspelled , and the misspellings are usually phonologically correct — e.g. ‘ search ’ — surch , ‘ spade ’ — spaid and ‘ come ’ — cumme . |
| 3 | Nigel Kennedy has been promised several free pints when it reopens in November . |
| 4 | The highly specialised craft of lacquer painting and decoration seems to have been invented several thousand years ago in China , where the lacquer tree grows . |
| 5 | But if it had been an unusually intelligent bird — an escaped mynah bird , perhaps , or a parrot that had been blown several thousand miles off course by very strong winds — ; it would have thought : |
| 6 | When the political dictatorships had been overthrown several alternative courses of action were open to the successor regimes . |
| 7 | But I 've been offered several million for it . |
| 8 | That is one good reason why we have been supporting several non-governmental projects in the region and why we have made representations to presidents and other leaders about the state of children in those countries . |