Example sentences of "[conj] have [been] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
| 2 | Or has been going in the past , and violence obviously can result in serious injury or at least death . |
| 3 | Most are women and children — the men either opted to stay behind to fight or have been captured by the Serbs . |
| 4 | It may be noticed also , first , that no actual misrepresentation seems to have been made by Duval to his wife , notwithstanding that he had concealed from her material facts and , second , that the pressure he exerted on her to persuade her to sign does not seem to have been excessively overbearing or to have been accompanied by the threats or false promises or intimidation that are sometimes the hall marks of undue influence . |
| 5 | He admitted that some people in Hong Kong had been alarmed by reports of carnage in Peking but said this was only because they ‘ misunderstood ’ or had been misled by the ‘ false reporting and even rumour of some news media ’ . |
| 6 | There was no sound of a human voice enquiring for his safety ; he shouted that he was safe , but gave up when he got no re-assuring reply ; he wondered if his friends had reached safety or had been caught under the falling rock . |
| 7 | In the first model of the mind , remember we said that the unconscious was everything that was either primarily unconscious , could never become conscious , or had been forced into the unconscious by th by means of repression . |
| 8 | In a number of instances , actual boundary stones remain , or have been recorded in the recent past . |
| 9 | Whether you have just moved into a new home or have been living in the same place for years the main thing is that you are alone and you must make your home your pride , your joy , your sanctuary . |
| 10 | In case you had n't figured it out already , or have been vacationing in the Amazon rain forest , ACE is well and truly dead . |
| 11 | About 90% of rural adults in Mexico have friends or relatives who are or have been working in the United States . |
| 12 | A number of examples are extant at Pompeii or have been removed to the Naples Museum . |
| 13 | May I associate myself with the praise that has been heaped on the know-how fund ? |
| 14 | Casting and smithing in Nigeria reached a standard from the 10th century onwards that has been compared to the art of Benvenuto Cellini . |
| 15 | Despite the large amount of funding that has been pumped into the scheme teachers are worried by the time it takes for materials and information to get through to them . |
| 16 | But , as primarily a meat substitute aimed at former carnivores , the portion in the film-wrapped tray can look pathetically small to a population that has been raised on the traditional four to eight ounces of meat each meal . |
| 17 | I must apologise for returning somewhat dryly to the procedural point that has been raised during the debate . |
| 18 | The 16 to 18-year-old group is the very group that has been punished by the Government . |
| 19 | Those who stress reversal see the process as one that has been led from the top , using the need to accommodate the reforms to Japan 's particular social system in order to legitimate the changes . |
| 20 | This in turn led to increased degradation that has been exacerbated by the subsequent use of marginal lands for cultivation . |
| 21 | In practice this often meant that immature minds would take over Leavis 's own evaluations without relating them to their own experience of literature , resulting in the diffusion of callow or inept judgements that has been condemned from the right by C. S. Lewis and from the left by Catherine Belsey . |
| 22 | This results in the Collectair library gaining valuable notes , all of which is carefully filed away for use as and when the archive that has been created over the past few years becomes available to students of aviation history . |
| 23 | The Iraqi missile attacks have provoked a wave of rare sympathy for a country that has been cast as the regional baddy . |
| 24 | The establishment now of a co-ordinated network of Regional INSET ( in-service training ) offices , or officers , with the primary function of advising and promoting self help , would be timely , in view of the stimulation to training that has been engendered by the introduction of the pre-licentiate scheme , and could make a major contribution towards combating the inefficient and inequitable distribution of training . |
| 25 | I only say that it is the route of the Council of Europe that has been recognised by the Community as leading to Community membership itself . |
| 26 | If you look , for example , at the case that has been made for the protection of the rainforest , you will find that it is peppered with every conceivable argument . |
| 27 | There has been a substantial advance in real-terms pay under our Administration , and this year the pay award that has been made for the current year is increasing the teachers ' pay bill overall by 11.3 per cent . |
| 28 | I am sure you are as appalled as I am at the use that has been made of the private letter of a schoolboy to his parents , but it is certainly a lesson for you in the ways of the world . ’ |
| 29 | Composing himself , Sir Michael pressed on : ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend reflect on the great progress that has been made during the last 10 years in the well-being of our country and the competitiveness of our industries and … |
| 30 | This is a matter that is worth some brief discussion , since it is closely connected with the fuss that has been made about the application of the term ‘ altruism ’ to animal as to human behaviour . |