Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [adv] been [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decisions on pits which will survive will be left to British Coal , which has also been asked to prepare for privatisation as soon as legislation can be put in place . |
| 2 | One of the two main instruments , a germanium spectrometer , would be provided by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) , which has also been asked to make available data-receiving facilities at two ground stations . |
| 3 | Babel 's bad times could be turned into art — an art which has been seen to release him , as it were , from his subject , and which has also been seen to hesitate . |
| 4 | No firm action was taken on methyl bromide , a pesticide used as a fumigant , which has also been found to destroy ozone , and officials merely recommended a freeze on production and consumption at 1992 levels by 1995 , with a 25 per cent cut by the year 2000 . |
| 5 | Both halves of the room have curtains in a finely textured , natural-coloured fabric , which has also been used to cover the sofa . |
| 6 | Finally , a look at Air Domes Ltd. , a new London based company which has just been formed to market the Yeadon Air structure . |
| 7 | Their preferred description of it has been overinclusive thinking which has frequently been used to explain certain forms of thought disorder seen in psychotic patients , such as the tendency to cognitive ‘ slippage ’ , loosely associated ideation , and difficulty in maintaining a tight boundary for abstract concepts . |
| 8 | The market is the mechanism which has traditionally been invoked to limit , control and thereby legitimate private power , whereas the mechanism by which it has been sought to control and justify the exercise of public power has traditionally been the ideal of the Rule of Law . |
| 9 | Has Colonel Gaddafi yet given Her Majesty 's Government a detailed list of all the guns , ammunition and Semtex explosives which Libya supplied to the Provisional IRA , much of which has already been used to kill and mutilate British citizens ? |
| 10 | The Sinhalese wedding case also has general value because it provides an exceptionally clear example of the three-phase structure of rites of passage first recognized by Hertz and Van Gennep around 1908 but which has subsequently been shown to apply to all kinds of social rituals . |
| 11 | One psychological distinction which has often been used to contrast different tasks in driving is the degree to which tasks can be performed automatically . |
| 12 | A pesticide which has long been thought to cause sickness and death in farm workers has been subjected to a partial ban following an agreement between the manufacturers and the US Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 13 | It called for a further postponement of the legislative elections which had already been deferred to begin on June 21 . |
| 14 | Force , which had long been used to conquer territory and to gain markets and raw materials , could no longer be used for these purposes . |
| 15 | There had been considerable controversy over the method of presidential election , which had originally been expected to take place with up to half a dozen candidates in January 1990 prior to the legislative elections of March-April [ see pp. 37325-26 ; 37380 ) . |
| 16 | Some rags , which had apparently been used to wipe it out , gave off oil fumes . |
| 17 | He held it like a sword , perhaps imagining the gutting and the killing he could perform with this weapon which had once been used to carve the image of a woman in the land . |
| 18 | The natural conclusion , then , is that the basic body plans of the different phyla represent structures which adapted some ancestral form to a particular way of life , and which have since been modified to serve different functions . |
| 19 | There was no clear relationship between the severity of portal hypertension and the prevalence of haemorrhoids , which have previously been shown to have no direct communication with the portal vein . |
| 20 | This is because the ‘ syntax ’ of theory , the logic on which it is based , is at the root of structures which have historically been used to trivialize , marginalize , and devalue the discourse of women , to pass it off at best as a mere fiction , and at worst as an illicit form of language use or one in poor taste , like the pun . |
| 21 | A further source of bank losses has been the acceptance of foreign exchange deposits from domestic residents , which have also been used to make dinar loans . |
| 22 | Many people do get bitten , some even fatally , by dogs which have not been taught to behave properly . |
| 23 | Recent research advocates that the minute spaces within the substance of the core , which have long been known to exist , are true bone cell or osteocyte cell spaces . |