Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb base] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you 've been demoted to post-boy ? ’ |
| 2 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 3 | But I wish it had n't been tonight , for tonight we have been invited to Gemma 's house for supper . |
| 4 | Somehow we 've been transported to another world . ’ |
| 5 | And just finally , on Friday we are in to the we 've been invited into a bags competition , you know , that 's after the bags actually means bookmakers afternoon greyhound services , and we race that every Friday as you know erm anyway we 've been invited to erm a national championship involving the other bags tracks that erm involved in this erm and so we stage our two heats on Friday . |
| 6 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |
| 7 | Prisoners at Gloucester apparently became bored translating school textbooks — now they 've been switched to teenage adventure stories — to the delight of the pupils . |
| 8 | The three VAX servers are said to be able to cope with 1,000 transactions an hour , though so far they have been tested to only a few percent of their capacity . |
| 9 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |
| 10 | Yet we have been programmed to be curious , to question , to probe and to seek to solve riddles . |
| 11 | The Government 's intention was that these funds would be a way of helping with one-off exceptional circumstances affecting only a small minority of students , but the reality is that once again they have been shown to be completely wrong . |
| 12 | Recently they have been applied to other commercial lettings , notably to lettings of shops , hotels and restaurants . |