Example sentences of "[ex0] have [adv] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There has already been extensive research on these , at Exeter and elsewhere , using computer techniques of control , recording and analysis .
2 There has also been preferential loss of the small foot bones : phalanges ( phal ) and metapodials ( met ) .
3 There has also been deliberate wooing of parents who had already made their selection , although it is surely obvious that changes in mid-stream can only be damaging , in terms of stability , education and coach/player relationship .
4 There has also been significant criticism of companies that have entered into transactions that were unsuitable for their needs and that increased their financial risk .
5 Most of the growth has been in issuance of eurobonds , but there has also been significant growth in issuance of foreign bonds , largely in Swiss francs .
6 There has also been significant investment in the areas of health , safety , quality , the environment and in personnel development and training .
7 There has also been growing evidence , members were told , of underage drinking in certain areas of the town , coupled with joy-riding .
8 There has also been considerable development in sail design in recent years with the result that sails are now far more controllable than the earlier types which resembled blown-out bedsheets .
9 But there has also been disturbing evidence , particularly on the family front .
10 There has recently been considerable discussion in the social science literature relating to questions of industrial transformation .
11 Note that it does not have to be shown that there has actually been oppressive enforcement simply that such is " reasonably capable " .
12 There has certainly been central government encouragement : bodies recognized as enterprise agencies are entitled to various tax concessions and become part of a wider national network .
13 In the past these accusations were dismissed as ‘ Western-orchestrated propaganda ’ , but there has now been Soviet confirmation of a number of recent killings in the Ukrainian town of Kharkov during fights between Soviet youngsters and African students .
14 It is possible that pollution affects their reproductive and immune systems , but there has only been piecemeal research on this subject . "
15 Whenever Labour has lost office there has always been strong pressure within the party to press for more extreme policies .
16 Mr James said : ‘ There has always been numerous safety management regulations in engineering but until now the administration side of the business has largely been ignored .
17 There has always been bad blood between these families but now they are like two stiff-legged hunting-hounds who circle each other with hackles raised and teeth bared , carefully eyeing each other , ready to launch into war if any move is made by their rival .
18 There has always been intense rivalry between New Zealand and Big Brother Australia .
19 There were no warmer or more enthusiastic supporters than the BDDA in the reconstitution of the Institute , and there has always been harmonious co-operation between the two .
20 At the time of my visits there had already been considerable changes in terms of staffing and resources in line with advisers ' recommendations .
21 There had also been offensive remarks about Charles 's ageing toothless bite .
22 There had also been recent newspaper reports of Bugis prahus putting into the atolls east of Celebes , burning the villages to the ground , and making off with the whole year 's harvest of copra the oil-bearing coconut husks — which was the inhabitants ' sole source of income .
23 There had also been recent allegations that Vacek had acted to prevent relevant documents from reaching the commission .
24 Earlier some engineers had derided this side of the business as mere ‘ ironmongery ’ , and there had also been political constraints on development .
25 There had also been personal prejudice against the three men who would have been on trial .
26 Once there had just been Trocchi drawing on the group 's ideas , there had been the sTigma exhibition in Better Books in 1965 , the obituary of Andrée Breton — one of the group 's intellectual roots — by Jean-Jacques Lebel in the first It fourteen months earlier .
27 No doubt there had long been extreme Gregorians who would have liked to abolish the homage of ecclesiastical landholders for ecclesiastical lands .
28 Within the Conservative party , particularly among local activists and MPs , there had long been numerous critics of the nationalized industries and advocates of a more market-orientated economy .
29 The table was bare again , as if there had never been good food and wine .
30 Like many small corps iii poor areas , there had always been financial problems , but this was nothing new to Major and Mrs Burrows .
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