Example sentences of "they 've [been] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says it 's going to get bigger and bigger and alot of our pasture land is going to be cannabis plantations and they 're going to be legal ones because they 've been granted licences to possess and grow it . |
| 2 | AT best , they 've been called cranks . |
| 3 | They erm they tend to perhaps have a different attitude if they 've been given company shares , because they 're handled shares er fairly regularly , and that 's a different matter , erm I mean erm are there many people here who have privatized issues ? |
| 4 | ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match . |
| 5 | But it was partly due to Ruddock that Southampton start the season out of pocket — they 've been fined £20,000 by the Football Association as punishment for their appalling disciplinary record last season . |
| 6 | After a lengthy campaign they 've been offered compensation for drop in value of their homes . |
| 7 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |