Example sentences of "they have [adv] [been] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital .
2 Now they 've obviously been exported to this country . ’
3 They 've all been listening to the trainer .
4 They had presumably been drawn to Bologna as students and had stayed there to carve themselves out a teaching or professional career .
5 As a precaution they had both been admitted to hospital , but Sean Walsh had driven up and got Benny discharged .
6 It asked the troops whether they had ever been linked to a group who aimed to overthrow the authority of the State , or if they had any family members , friends or associates connected with such organisations .
7 When they had all been seen to , and no call had come from the complex , Dr Rafaelo summoned Shelley to follow him .
8 Swirling snowclouds and rain strengthened the illusion that there was no outside world anymore , and that they had all been transported to some frozen Hell .
9 I shall not dwell on the comments made by the Leader of the Opposition in 1980 , as they have also been referred to .
10 They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron .
11 Medical or other expert reports that have been disclosed to the other side should not go in Sched 1 , Pt1 , of the list , even if they have already been disclosed to the other side , but always go in Pt2 , otherwise one will lose the right to claim privilege for such reports .
12 They have now been blown to pieces . ’
13 They have long been committed to the idea of such a conference for dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict ; they are now committed to the idea of such a conference for negotiating a Gulf peace ; there is no obvious way to keep the two ideas apart .
14 I wait awhile , until they have all been seen to .
15 But however often these theories have been mooted they have never been adhered to for long .
16 They have often been referred to as ’ Rehabilitated ’ cars or ‘ Ashfield rebuilds ’ , but neither term appears to have been recognized officially .
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