Example sentences of "[adv] have been [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple 's life together has been restricted to holidays . |
| 2 | Less has been heard from mothers for many of whom maintenance is their only chance of getting off benefit . |
| 3 | The occurrences of the records linked together have been represented by pointers . |
| 4 | Although the civil rights strategy could not have been adopted by republicans without the approval of the leadership of the IRA — and Roy Johnston stressed the importance of its involvement in the Maghera meeting of 1966 — — this does not mean that the army council initiated the setting up of NICRA or that it paid any detailed attention to the work being done by republicans within the association . |
| 5 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 6 | Instead of saying " shirts made in 3 different sleeve lengths " which might not have been noticed by readers , the advertisement carried the headline : " Is your husband in another man 's arms ? " — a proposition hard to ignore . |
| 7 | ‘ The court shall not in any civil proceedings grant any injunction or make any order against an officer of the Crown if the effect of granting the injunction or making the order would be to give any relief against the Crown which could not have been obtained in proceedings against the Crown . ’ |
| 8 | The dilemma is simple : if the Sistine Chapel 's wall and ceiling were intended to be preserved as form , they should not have been painted with frescoes , it means that someone wanted to remove forever their original architectural character and create something else , which is acceptable ’ . |
| 9 | In June 1989 the government refused to grant the fundamentalist Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) legal recognition as a political party , on the grounds that by law founders and leaders of parties must not have been convicted of offences warranting more than three months ' imprisonment or six months ' suspended sentence ; 15 Nahdah leaders , although at liberty , still had current convictions dating from September 1987 ( see p. 36633 ) . |
| 10 | If the navvies had n't been there to help she 'd not have been found for days . ’ |
| 11 | These steps could not have been imitated from adults since the last is the only version they are likely to have heard . |
| 12 | There was no more objective reason why firearms should not have been used in burglaries and bank hold-ups thirty or sixty years ago than today ; but it ‘ was n't done ’ — until it was discovered that it was done , that you could do it . |
| 13 | Barry Henderson , senior manager in charge of the new company , explains : ‘ These sites would normally have been sold to developers or owner/occupiers by JS but the new company will keep their profits in-house . |
| 14 | If it had faltered , it might soon have been overrun by competitors , including IBM Credit Corp . |
| 15 | Efforts to raise £28,000 to keep a popular Hartlepool community centre open have been hit by raiders . |
| 16 | ‘ Information should be collected as to the goings-on in parts of Ulster of organisations which lately have been supplied with arms and are being detailed for eventualities . ’ |
| 17 | For example , there was relatively little leisure-time involvement by husbands with their mates but considerable participation in what traditionally has been regarded as women 's work , especially child-rearing . |
| 18 | Over a year ago REAL ( the association of estate agents in Edinburgh and the Lothians ) , introduced a maximum conveyancing fee of £350 plus VAT and outlays , a considerable saving on the scale fee which traditionally has been charged by solicitors . |
| 19 | A treaty stipulating that one of central Europe 's most polluted rivers be cleaned up has been signed by officials from Germany , Czechoslovakia and the European Community . |
| 20 | ‘ In England in Shakespeare 's time , ’ said Owen , disregarding her , ‘ the women 's parts would probably have been played by boys . ’ |
| 21 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 22 | The public will also have been irritated by attempts to link bloodsports with conservation , to say that the countryside takes its present form to suit foxhunting and to claim that the fabric of society in the countryside will fall apart without hunting . |
| 23 | In some respects this mosaic appears also to have been influenced by pavements in the western part of the province . |
| 24 | Users of services find it easier to judge the nonclinical aspects of care which traditionally have been undervalued by providers . |
| 25 | The most common example of time out has been used by generations of parents . |
| 26 | They have presented separate lists of candidates to the 270-seat Majlis , or parliament , which until now has been dominated by radicals . |
| 27 | as has been mentioned , which has been something that often has been composed by women and transmitted by women , and there 's recently been an anthology published of Scottish womens poetry , I think that 's a tradition and is perhaps related to second point , the fact that the material 's only just becoming available to us . |
| 28 | Press reports cited evidence of his involvement with the USA , including his use of a US military helicopter to travel from Beirut to Cyprus in 1986 and his involvement in the release of three US hostages , the Rev. Benjamin Weir , freed on Sept. 14 , 1985 , and Lawrence Jenco and David Jacobsen , released on July 26 and Nov. 2 , 1986 , respectively , all of whom turned out to have been traded for arms . |
| 29 | In contrast , the plots at Penkridge , which were up to 30 m ( 100 ft ) deep , may well have been employed as gardens or animal pens . |
| 30 | Most probably the Linear A inscriptions are in the pre-Hellenic language of the Minoans , which may well have been related to languages spoken in south-west Anatolia , such as Luvian or Hittite . |