Example sentences of "they have be [vb pp] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will also completely cover up imperfections , have good sound and heat insulation properties and , if they 've been treated with protective spray , will last for years and years — long after paint has become chipped and discoloured , and paper faded . |
| 2 | He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’ |
| 3 | The Polish origins had been almost eroded , but not quite ; they had been overlaid with heavy Cockney , which , in turn , had been flattened into a classier accent as Steen climbed the social ladder . |
| 4 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 5 | But they had been issued with first class tickets . |
| 6 | When Alexei Sultanov , a nineteen-year-old from the USSR , was finally declared the winner , he rushed up on stage and lifted his trophy over his head and yipped with glee and the people of Fort Worth stood and clapped as if they had been seized with divine ecstasy . |
| 7 | Local sources insisted that all the dead had been unarmed and that they had been attacked with sharpened spades and a noxious gas , which had itself been responsible for the death of two women . |
| 8 | Some of them have not been found guilty , and albeit they have been charged with horrendous crimes they are still innocent people and it does n't matter even if they are not innocent people , the Government still has a responsibility to life and limb and really I ca n't see any case at all for not storming . |
| 9 | At the end of it all , the journalists are free to report what they have been told without question , they may seek to check the information they have been given with other sources or use it as background on a later occasion . |
| 10 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 11 | In the great storm of October 1987 , many of the original trees in that avenue were uprooted but they have been replaced with young lime trees . |
| 12 | When similar proposals have been made in the past they have been greeted with well-founded objections on both moral and empirical grounds , given the known inaccuracy of existing predic-tion techniques ( see Bottoms , 1977 ; Radzinowicz and Hood , 1979 ; Bottoms and Brownsword , 1993 ) . |
| 13 | Winter smogs are essentially polluted fogs , so there have been a number of occasions when they have been seeded with dry ice or silver iodide at certain airports so as to allow aircraft to land safely . |
| 14 | No but I think it is interesting that some of the Parish Councils for instance who initially were opposed to the application and very strongly , as they have been supplied with further and better information have modified their position and are now saying subject to rigorous planning controls they are no longer opposed outright to the application . |
| 15 | They have been used with great success in the analysis of repeated measures data and ar increasingly coming to be used to efficiently analyse complex sample surveys . |