Example sentences of "have [been] play " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rugby has been played in the Soviet Union since the end of the last century when a Scottish businessman organised a game between expatriates in Moscow . |
| 2 | Partly because of water privatisation the problem has been played down because it will cost millions of pounds to solve . |
| 3 | They will have to prove to the Society that at least 15 minutes of their music has been played each year — fine enough for those who write lengthy pieces , but much more difficult for those who are at heart and in practice miniaturists . |
| 4 | In addition an annual match against the Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society has been played at Henley in May each year since 1977 . |
| 5 | The ‘ three tenors ’ gambit has been played , and played , and replayed but with the valid excuse that they are always different in content . |
| 6 | Originally a 9-holer designed by Tom Dunn , Sheringham was extended to 18 holes in 1898 and , little changed over the years , it particularly suits the English ladies , it seems : their amateur championship has been played here several times , most recently in 1991 . |
| 7 | ‘ When a golf course has been played for 15 years , as The Belfry had , it begins to show certain areas where improvements can be made by fine-tuning . |
| 8 | An amendment then added unless the ball has been played or touched by the other side . |
| 9 | A scan of the literature concerned with early Anglo-Saxon archaeology over the last 25 years has hardly reflected this change until very recently when there have been definite signs that dissatisfaction is leading to experimentation ; otherwise the Sutton Hoo harp has been played while the archaeological world burned . |
| 10 | I like it when someone spots that a record being reviewed has been played by me on Radio 1 |
| 11 | This experimental law has caused the biggest outcry even before it has been played . |
| 12 | A major part in setting up the Czartoryski Foundation , and in most of the other similar attempts , has been played by an eminence grise familiar to Western art circles , namely the London art dealer Andrew Ciechanowiecki . |
| 13 | The recessionary scenario has been played out in several U.S. institutions in the past two years . |
| 14 | There is another board game called Go which has been played in China for millennia . |
| 15 | For over 40 years , music has been played , taught , written and hidden away here : the manuscript of Benjamin Britten 's only piano concerto , dedicated to his close friend Lennox Berkeley , was recently unearthed in the bird 's eye maple cabinet in the study . |
| 16 | Aussie captain Allan Border led the praise for Smith 's great effort , saying : ‘ If that 's not the best one-day innings that has been played , then it 's in the grand final . |
| 17 | But here in London 's legal citadel , until recently , has been played down . |
| 18 | What is perhaps most curious about the characterization of Margery after the trick has been played is that she very soon drops all reference to — and therefore seems to be portrayed as forgetting — the threat she believes the clerk to pose . |
| 19 | When the absurdly naive theatricals by which the clerks seek to cloak their scheme for preventing the miller 's stealing — which has increased from the " curteis " to the " outrageous " with the illness of their college 's manciple — reveal their design to him , he determines to steal yet more , out of pride , and out of his own version of measure for measure , but not out of covetousness : As soon as the two clerks can stop and consider the trick that has been played on them , we see that the miller 's action , motivated by his pride , hits directly at the pride of the clerks : Another offence to John 's pride leads him later to attempt to bed the miller 's wife , hearing the success of Alayn with the daughter ( 4199 – 209 ) . |
| 20 | Now with Speed , in the middle of the park , playing are hard tackling role and the 5 man defence that has been played recently then we should be all right . |
| 21 | Data from the accident ‘ black box ’ recovered from the destroyed helicopter has been played back satisfactorily , according to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch . |
| 22 | I am sure that his side 's performances have exceeded his expectations purely because of the manner in which the rugby has been played . |
| 23 | The John Lennon hit ‘ Imagine ’ has been played simultaneously on more than a thousand radio stations world-wide . |
| 24 | And the John Lennon hit single ‘ Imagine ’ has been played simultaneously on more than a thousand radio stations worldwide ; it was one of the tributes on what would have been the ex-Beatle 's fiftieth birthday , and was played as an anthem to world peace . |
| 25 | Simplified , the overwhelming wish has been to play , not watch . |
| 26 | An old man has been playing the guitar , but he has left off playing to listen to a young shepherd piping . |
| 27 | The game the young man has been playing , however , is not baseball but exorcism . |
| 28 | One disappointing absentee is Jonathan Davies , who has been playing with such verve at full-back recently but has not recovered from his damaged hamstring , allowing Alan Tait to revert to full-back . |
| 29 | Just such an episode has been playing itself out on the American financial stage . |
| 30 | Goodway has been playing with consistent brilliance there this season , scoring 18 tries , but he will now be out for a month , and Hanley is no stranger to the position after spending earlier periods of his career mostly at centre or stand-off . |