Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’
2 In such a case , notice that the average length of life , e , in a population is not , in general , equal to the average age at death because all the birth cohorts have been compounded irrespective of their sizes .
3 Fifty thousand Palestinians have been through the prisons since the intifada began ; scores of Arab children have been shot dead .
4 Fifty thousand Palestinians have been through the prisons since the intifada began ; scores of Arab children have been shot dead .
5 Some have been shot dead at their office desks .
6 The S A S are already there and there are people that have been shot dead , unarmed people , civilians who 've been shot dead by the S A S.
7 Three protestors supporting President Gamsakhurdia have been shot dead by gunmen in Tblisi .
8 Four men suspected of IRA terrorism have been shot dead in an SAS ambush in Ulster .
9 They have been fed non-sexist , multi-cultural books and toys along with their strained apricots ; they have been treated by female GPs , they have sat and watched Kaffe Fassett knitting and sewing on TV , but their ideas of male and female roles are as sexist as if we had never made the effort .
10 In peephological terms , the voters have been fed large doses of medicine for the past month .
11 In colorectal carcinomas and in adenomatous polyps increased concentrations of plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 and type-2 have been demonstrated concurrent with higher urokinase type plasminogen activator concentrations and inactivation of tissue type plasminogen activator .
12 Coral Marine have been appointed exclusive distributors in the UK and Eire for Seapen books .
13 Three backbenchers have been appointed junior whips : Mr Andrew Mackay , MP for Berkshire East , Mr Robert Hughes , MP for Harrow West and Mr James Arbuthnot , MP for Wanstead and Woodford .
14 JASON ELLES and Alan Lovett of Ernst & Young 's Reading office , have been appointed joint administrators to National Guardian Mortgage Corporation Ltd. , in Grayshott .
15 POLICE cells in Hastings , Sussex , have been painted pink in a bid to relax violent prisoners .
16 Shops in Manila have been stripped bare in panic buying , there have been runs on banks , and the government has advised city-folk to grow vegetables in their gardens and to stop ironing clothes to save energy .
17 A total of 500 council houses have been declared uninhabitable and it will cost £2m to deal with them .
18 Of a pre-abolition of more than 9,300 registered dockers , some 70 per cent have been declared redundant under the Dock Labour Compensation Scheme at a cost to the British Tax payer of about £150 million ( 2 ) .
19 ( 8 ) Until the date of the first renewal of licences provisionally granted under subsection ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above after those licences have been declared final , subsections ( 2 ) to ( 5 ) of section 30 of this Act shall have effect in relation to those licences with the substitution in subsection ( 3 ) of section 30 of a reference to one year instead of the reference to three years .
20 I have been declared innocent .
21 Ten parts of South Africa ( not necessarily contiguous geographical entities but based on ethnic groupings ) have been designated by the government as " homelands " for Africans ; four of these have been declared independent sovereign states but are recognized only by South Africa and by each other ; the remainder are at various stages of " self-government " .
22 Ten parts of South Africa ( not necessarily contiguous geographical entities but based on ethnic groupings ) have been designated by the government as " homelands " for Africans ; four of these ( Bophuthatswana , Ciskei , Transkei and Venda ) have been declared independent sovereign states but are recognized only by South Africa and each other ; the remainder ( Gazankulu , KaNgwane , KwaNdbele , KwaZulu , Lebowa and Qwaqwa ) are at various stages of " self-government " .
23 Thailand 's two most popular tourist resorts , Phuket and Pattaya , have been declared pollution-control zones under the new Environmental Protection Act which came into force in June .
24 The recent Toyne Report ‘ Environmental Responsibility , An Agenda for Further and Higher Education ’ , commissioned by the DoE and the Welsh Office states , ‘ Everybody has some scope for doing his or her job in a more environmentally responsible way , and needs to understand the importance of this … but may well need more than this , either because they have been given specific responsibilities within their organisation , or simply because their organisation 's environmental impact is heavily dependent on the way they carry out their day-to-day tasks , and on the decisions which they have to take . ’
25 But there are groups within the University that have been given specific responsibility for certain elements , and the largest of these is the Education Area .
26 Michael Heseltine had his own way at the Department of the Environment and will continue to do so at Trade and Industry , where supporters of his during the leadership contest have been given junior positions .
27 Even with endoscopic clearance , which should be more thorough , it is often difficult to remove radiologically undetectable , tiny fragments adherent to or embedded in the mucosa and therefore , latterly , patients have been given adjuvant bile acid therapy for an arbitrary three month period .
28 Campaigners , calling for the convictions of Tony Poole and Gary Mills to be quashed have been given renewed hope after Gloucester MP Douglas French , met with Home Office officials .
29 One hundred selected employees have been given Perfect Pint cards containing a hotline number at the Cheltenham site on which such breaches can be reported .
30 ‘ School governors have been given increasing responsibility in recent years , but they have n't been adequately prepared and as a result children have n't been properly protected against abuse by teachers , ’ NASWE general secretary Sue Allen told delegates .
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