Example sentences of "have just been [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Thanks have just been received in the Office from Janice Glen for the lovely flowers and card she received on her birthday .
2 The Joneses have just been asked to find 15 years ' back rent along with the residents of the other 17 flats at Shire Court in Swindon .
3 She says : ‘ It is a very valuable function because it helps people who are unemployed or have just been made redundant to do something which is worthwhile .
4 [ Three assertions have just been made .
5 I also take the point Mr has made , and only assure you that we will look at these figures when we get them and take on board the sorts of comments that have just been made by yourself and Mr and by and use them with our judgement applied liberally .
6 Just George , just to respond to the two points that have just been made .
7 Do I take it that actually the remarks that have just been made are really in favour of having a third E H O , but that in fact that that in circumstances , will not be possible .
8 It is the characteristic of the kind of Governments that have just been turned over beyond the line , in Europe .
9 For they have just been faced with the prospect of losing £1 million of the money they have to spend on research this year .
10 The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings .
11 Colleagues , the C E C are supporting all the motions that have just been debated , and I propose to take the vote .
12 Promotions for Phil Constable , 30 , and Steve Sergeant , 37 , have just been announced by police at Winchester , Hants .
13 It is not clear whether the effort involves simply the client end or the full DB2 — both have just been announced for AIX Unix on the RS/6000 .
14 It is not clear whether the effort involves simply the client end or the full DB2 — both have just been announced for AIX Unix on the RS/6000 .
15 Yet such is the burden of bad debts that their final results for the fiscal year to March , which have just been announced , are dismal .
16 The budgets which have just been prepared show that we are aiming to do even better in 1991 and the managing director 's reports on page 2 endorse this optimistic approach .
17 This brings us to rule five : only ever praise somebody ( a ) in order to condemn someone else ( ‘ Danny Baker is genuinely witty and not childish like so many Radio 1 ‘ personalities ' ’ ) or ( b ) if they have just been sacked ( ‘ I found the previous presenters stylish , informed and witty , creating just the right atmosphere .
18 Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’
19 The result was that a constituent of mine — and no doubt many hundreds of others who have just been referred to by the Minister as being included in the 1,200 people who received grants — was short changed and not given the full amount .
20 The first of these new awards have just been accredited , and centres wishing to pilot them will be able to do so from August 1992 .
21 Ynyslas and the adjacent caravan site crossing have just been done .
22 ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’
23 ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column .
24 So I ignore the directive I have just been given , and head straight back to London .
25 I had a good job as an electronics engineer and have just been given three months notice , losing all my pension rights after working 26 years for the same company .
26 The council 's plan to replace their Saturday shift with a standby system has infuriated the men whose bosses have just been given a big pay rise .
27 First orders have just been completed for Air New Zealand .
28 I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’
29 ‘ I have just been elected chairman again for this year I am very much involved with the society so it just makes sense really . ’
30 POSTSCRIPT : As I write I have just been handed a newspaper and I see that at the Court of Appeal in London on April 30th , the following transpired ‘ Trade Unions scored a notable victory in their fight to maintain collective bargaining yesterday when the Court of Appeal said employers had no right to discriminate against workers who refused to sign personal contracts ’ .
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