Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.

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31 I have been advised that situation ( 1 ) applies to your Night , Early and Back shifts but that situation ( 2 ) applies to your Day shift .
32 I have been advised this week that out of 18 UK applications for this section of the Human Capital and Mobility Programme only three succeeded .
33 She has been seen several times over the years .
34 She has been appointed this season after the Wordsworth Trust staged a six-day exhibition in Osaka last year .
35 Perhaps the reason is that she has been persuaded that teacher approval , and whatever other more tangible extrinsic rewards may follow , are in short supply and to gain what she needs she must not simply ( or even necessarily ) improve but also get ( or merely stay ) ahead of others .
36 She wished she could say she knew she was being difficult and edgy , taking it out on him because she 'd been denied another child .
37 She was cold , tired and aching ; her bed had n't been thick enough , and she 'd been wakened several times by sheep trying to share it , or eat it .
38 Aye that er You 've Been Framed that dog in the water with that man .
39 Cos if you were asked as , as , as a person by , by a manager or by somebody else to , to actually do the training , then it 's your responsibility is n't it you 've been asked , you 've been given that task and it 's your responsibility to ensure that people are able to do at the end of the session something effectively .
40 Dr Marshall , 60 , said it was disgraceful that she had been given little more than 48 hours to tidy her office .
41 She had been stabbed several times .
42 For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films .
43 so if she had been told that
44 It was difficult , even though she had been told all the problems of Gesner , to continue to hold oneself together in the face of such blatant hatred .
45 She had been widowed some time when we met . ’
46 The jokes between her father , mother and older brother had been adult , almost risqué ; she had been allowed several glasses of champagne without a reproachful look , and her rather revealing décolletage had passed without comment .
47 She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time .
48 In those days of waiting , she had been spared any dread of Robert 's approaching her .
49 Could we have been hoodwinked all the way ?
50 One of the foremost exponents of Hawaiian slack key guitar was the superb musician and singer Gabby Pahinui , and Gabby is the reason we 've been given this rare and welcome opportunity to speak to Ry Cooder .
51 Alright cos I think we 've been sent these on approval to see if we want to adopt them for course material
52 That 's what we 've been asked this morning .
53 Thirdly that there is no requirement to demonstrate a need to locate development in open countryside erm and we 've been reminded this morning that erm one of the erm flaws in the policy put forward back in nineteen seventy nine or eighty erm appears to be that it erm required , certainly in the explanatory memorandum , that the development be erm essential erm to er essentially have a countryside location .
54 So far , too , we 've been spared any of the gorier stuff they do here — and some of this stuff you just would n't believe .
55 No er we 've been told that Radio Leicester , our colleagues here at Radio Leicester tell us that there 's a bit of a delay in sending out C Ds .
56 We 've been told that er everything 's done in , in the relation to the trustee but of course when you 're talking about massive sums of one point seven billion , our members er who are seventy five/eighty olds who suffered the problem of the inflatory years , their pensions have n't kept , kept pace with the with the people that are retiring now .
57 mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because
58 In parts we have been given that modern definition .
59 We have been given another chance and it 's up to us to take it . ’
60 They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment .
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