Example sentences of "they [verb] be [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NALGO 's members , who are mostly women , are bitter that they 've been pushed to take industrial action . |
| 2 | They had been asked to make sure it was safe before a forensic science and firearms team from Huntingdon could examine it in detail . |
| 3 | But even they had been known to take direct action when driven to desperation . |
| 4 | Marx 's works had already begun to penetrate Russia earlier , but until now they had been used to buttress populist attacks on capitalism , rather than to develop a Marxist approach to revolution in Russia . |
| 5 | They have been devised to place minimum strain on the lifter and her back , while ensuring that the patient is not at risk of falling or being dropped . |
| 6 | Dogs are polymorphic in appearance because they have been made to look different by selective breeding controlled by their human masters . |
| 7 | First , they represent a putative developmental sequence which reflects the child 's gradual mastery of language for dealing with abstract ideas and , second , they have been shown to generate high levels of inter-observer agreement ( Blank and Franklin 1980 ) ( see Table 7.3 ) . |
| 8 | They have been forced to drink dirty water and ration meagre food supplies while both Israel and Lebanon leave them to starve . |
| 9 | Consequently the professional should discuss what has happened with the parents and make quite certain they know exactly why they have been advised to adopt certain practices . |
| 10 | For the same reason they have been known to treat surrounding farmland as though it were a vast municipal park across which their dogs can roam or their children can ride their ponies without much thought for the consequences . |
| 11 | Now they have been told to restore normal services ‘ without delay ’ , but no deadline is stipulated . |
| 12 | These students had also undergone a careful process of scrutiny , and most of them had been required to sit special matriculation examinations . |