Example sentences of "they [verb] be [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been taken care of . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match . |
| 4 | After a lengthy campaign they 've been offered compensation for drop in value of their homes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A Thai Army official admitted on Jan. 2 , 1990 , that Myanma soldiers had crossed the Moei river but denied that they had been given permission to do so . |
| 7 | It showed what many journalists in Beirut had long realised : that the Palestinians regarded their cause , their country — Palestine — as infinitely more holy , more sacred than the nation in which they had been given refuge . |
| 8 | Minns said the new SPAs were welcome but he questioned why they had been given priority over the Cairngorms or the mudflats of the Solway Firth , " areas of enormous importance for wildlife which are under real and immediate threat " . |
| 9 | ‘ The increase in Sinn Fein 's fortunes was inevitable given that they had been given resuscitation by Mr Hume , as he always seems to do when their fortunes are low , ’ he said . |
| 10 | They had been given borrowing and overdraft facilities . |
| 11 | They wound Sycorax 's light dry spoil in two banana leaves , laid lengthwise and sewn together with dried strips of aloe , and then chose to dig a vertical grave at the foot of the saman tree , the designated place , for which they had been granted permission . |
| 12 | However , if they had been granted representation proportionate to their minute share of those votes , four or five of their candidates could have become MdBs : the exclusion clause served to prevent that . |
| 13 | A recent study , published in The Lancet , found that premature babies were six to ten times more likely to get necrotising enterocolitis — the most common , serious gastro-intestinal disease seen in special-care units — if they had been fed formula milk in place of breast milk . |
| 14 | Rita 's teaching experience has been enormously full and varied , including recreational classes ranging from her first class of East-enders at Plaistow to her university class at Newcastle 20 years later , courses for schoolchildren , for Civil Defence trainees and for physiotherapy students ( only this year , at the Sports Medicine exhibition , physiotherapists came up to the Medau stand to say that they had been taught Medau by Rita Quick ) , and work with the mentally ill and disabled . |
| 15 | It was crammed full of good ideas which you could n't sensibly argue with , but they had been turned upside down . |
| 16 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 17 | Its members occupied seats reserved for whites in a lunch counter at a Woolworth store in Greensboro , North Carolina , after they had been refused service . |
| 18 | They somehow managed to persuade the owners , apparently it was and it was and nobody else had ever been allowed in this place not even erm historians who write about famous buildings , even they had been refused access ! |
| 19 | Recent press coverage was given to a newly married couple , both aged 85 , who arrived at their hotel to discover that they had been allocated twin beds . |
| 20 | They have been cast in-situ forming contiguous reinforced retaining walls . |
| 21 | In one of the major cup competitions they have been given home advantage against first division Coventry . |
| 22 | Some have suffered symptoms so severe that they have been given medication by their doctor . |
| 23 | They have been given guidance on the importance of distinguishing between needs , preferences , and wants . |
| 24 | Their grant has been frozen in real terms at much below the level at which they could expect to survive on it ; they have been denied entitlement to income support , housing benefits and rebates ; there are no jobs with which they can supplement their incomes during vacations ; and those who find themselves desperately hard up discover , when they turn to the hardship fund , that it has already been exhausted . |
| 25 | Indeed Poly and Plugger as they have been christened look set to live long , happy and fruitful lives . |
| 26 | It must be because they are historic that they have been left standing . |
| 27 | Some of the main changes are : In general play , offside players may not advance towards a player waiting to play the ball until they have been put onside . |
| 28 | In future they will be out of the game until they have been put on-side . |
| 29 | In one hand , they have been offered fr |