Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] have [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wheldon & Wesley has been appointed sole distributor for Europe and America by Yasaka Shobo Inc , Japan . |
| 2 | Speculation during that time that Arafat had been killed focused attention on the lack of an obvious replacement for Arafat as PLO chair and Palestinian leader . |
| 3 | The French President , François Mitterrand , confirmed on Oct. 15 that Aoun had been granted political asylum as a " question of honour " and that he would be allowed to remain in the embassy indefinitely . |
| 4 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 5 | As the UNCTC notes , ‘ the sharp decline in FDI flows to developing countries does not mean that TNCs have been ignoring those areas . |
| 6 | Observers from the US National Democratic Institute said that there had been " serious problems " , that voter registration was incomplete , that registers had not been open for inspection , and that Biya had been allocated 142 minutes of coverage on the state-owned television service between Oct. 7 and polling day , while the six opposition candidates shared only 12 minutes . |
| 7 | Besides , he could just imagine Cashman 's fury if he discovered that Cindy had been staying unchaperoned with Matthew . |
| 8 | But fears grew that Iraq has been breaking United Nations trade embargoes . |
| 9 | He concluded that Lewis had been knocked unconscious before he drowned . |
| 10 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 11 | It is pertinent that WHO has been sponsoring comparable field trials in African countries to confirm the adequacy of safety margins in case of inadvertent exposure to pest control agents . |
| 12 | ‘ There is no doubt that Charles has been offered major works at good prices ’ , says one dealer , ‘ because people wanted to see those works in his great collection ; artists have sold him paintings that they would not have sold to anyone else , and they feel betrayed . ’ |
| 13 | Mitra attacked a secret visit by Ramos to Switzerland in mid-February , hinting that Ramos had been seeking foreign funds for his campaign . |
| 14 | On July 21 it was announced that Ghozali had been appointed Algerian ambassador to Paris [ see also below ] . |
| 15 | Unix Labs says that Novell has been kept abreast of its strategy and efforts in the case , and has indicated its support . |
| 16 | Dr Tom Walker , the head of BP Nutrition , says that BP had been kept aware of developments but had decided not to take part . |
| 17 | I think Newsome , Fairclough and Kelly have been playing brill . |
| 18 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 19 | Madam Speaker , this announcement is now almost a year delayed the firm of Coopers and Lybrand have been paid one point six million pounds to come up with this ass access charging fiasco , surely this house in entitled to the , as entitled as the press to a full statement of the government 's intentions so that they can be answered by . |
| 20 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 21 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market , and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 22 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 23 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 24 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 25 | But few Japanese beverage companies yet make drinks-cans with tab openers that remain attached to the cans — even though companies in the US and Canada have been manufacturing these for almost 15 years . |
| 26 | Graham Tennant , 81 , has been writing poetry for a hobby since he was 10 and his poem Looking Back taking a humorous look at the Biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah has been judged one of the top ten funniest poems in a national competition judged by comedian Ronnie Corbett . |
| 27 | On May 26 it was announced that Vladimir , Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk had been elected new head of the UOC . |
| 28 | The offer was accepted with alacrity and Harry has been writing these little vignettes for the paper ever since . |
| 29 | Anne Keddy Hector , Robert Seyfarth and Michael Raleigh at the Universities of California and Pennsylvania have been studying parental behaviour among captive vervets to see if males ' parental ability affected the females ' choice of mate . |
| 30 | Further on he writes : " Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne are recorded in the defter each as 300-akce Damascus and Aleppo have been recorded each as 500-akce . |