Example sentences of "[conj] have been [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts have used regulatory rules in determining whether an obligation under the general law exists or has been broken in a number of ways . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 4 | Or has been going in the past , and violence obviously can result in serious injury or at least death . |
| 5 | Most are women and children — the men either opted to stay behind to fight or have been captured by the Serbs . |
| 6 | In the case of psychoanalytic theory , there needs to be an understanding , first , of an undistorted version of the theory as stated by Freud , and then various changes in the theory can be seen as either having been made to attain greater rational consistency , or to incorporate new ‘ findings ’ which refute some of the previous assumptions , or to have been made as a result of social pressures on theory-makers eager to find a role for their theories in the society . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In a number of instances , actual boundary stones remain , or have been recorded in the recent past . |
| 13 | S 459 of the Companies Act 1985 provides that if a company 's affairs are being or have been conducted in a manner which is unfairly prejudicial to the company 's interests , then the members may obtain relief through the courts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When interest group activity is added to electoral pressure , the ‘ shame ’ attached to being held responsible for social dissensus , lead to changes which may have been a voluntary response or have been supervised by a state responding to legitimate protest . |
| 17 | YOU ca n't enjoy good beer if the pubs that serve them are badly run or have been modernised in a vulgar and insensitive fashion . |
| 18 | About 90% of rural adults in Mexico have friends or relatives who are or have been working in the United States . |
| 19 | A number of examples are extant at Pompeii or have been removed to the Naples Museum . |
| 20 | May I associate myself with the praise that has been heaped on the know-how fund ? |
| 21 | Casting and smithing in Nigeria reached a standard from the 10th century onwards that has been compared to the art of Benvenuto Cellini . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I must apologise for returning somewhat dryly to the procedural point that has been raised during the debate . |
| 25 | The 16 to 18-year-old group is the very group that has been punished by the Government . |
| 26 | And you can line up a special treat to celebrate when the battle is won — using the money that has been saved on a holiday or to buy yourself something special . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This in turn led to increased degradation that has been exacerbated by the subsequent use of marginal lands for cultivation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |