Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Obviously they 're looking at every aspect and it may include action against Tom Walkinshaw for putting together a deal that has been ruled unlawful . ’ |
| 2 | Editor , — The study that has been mounted consequent on the grounding of the tanker Braer on 5 January 1993 has been inaccurately reported . |
| 3 | Exactly the same unconscious human intention that has been made manifest by the deification of Jesus Christ , can be seen in the cult of the Virgin Mary . |
| 4 | But if it had been an unusually intelligent bird — an escaped mynah bird , perhaps , or a parrot that had been blown several thousand miles off course by very strong winds — ; it would have thought : |
| 5 | Observation and participation in the installation ceremonies are to be the major tools of research and have been made possible by earlier field-work . |
| 6 | These are just some of the facilities and expertise that have been made available to industry . |
| 7 | It 's a story that 's been told thousands of times since Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol , and now a group of disabled students from Herefordshire Technical college 's assisted learning unit are staging their own version . |
| 8 | The amount of press coverage that 's been generated this week by your conference has been enormously important to the local trade unions , it 's something that we can build on , it 's something that says to the local press to the local media trade unions have got something to say trade unions have got something to put forward and it 's that 's something that we will come back to erm afterwards , after you 've gone , we can use that , we can build on it . |
| 9 | As long ago as 1915 Scott published the first research on interviews showing that 6 personnel managers could not agree about a common set of applicants , a finding that has been replicated innumerable times and will be reflected in the personal experience of most interviewers . |
| 10 | But there are groups within the University that have been given specific responsibility for certain elements , and the largest of these is the Education Area . |
| 11 | One of the many highlights is the view down Loch Shiel from Glenfinnan , a vista that has been reproduced many times on gaudy retouched 60s ' postcards , and on calendars handed out at Christmas by firms who manufacture ball-bearings . |
| 12 | We 've got a whole erm , a whole erm organisation that in fact the Council for Voluntary Service only this week made an appointment with a very , very , very , very small amount of money that 's been made available on a very , very part-time basis , to actually assist with that , with the planning that 's going on in the voluntary sector . |
| 13 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 14 | That support is available in the Scottish Office and has been tried and tested in the work that has been done supporting the central institutions . |
| 15 | It would be absolutely disastrous if after the excellent work that 's been done this year we were not able to maintain that . |
| 16 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 17 | Before turning to the work of Sayre , Dennett and Sloman , I should at least mention one major question that has been left unasked in this paper , and intentionally so : namely , what properties would a machine have to have in order to be sufficient for us to deem it conscious ? |
| 18 | Todd had n't spoken in over a minute , but there was a harshness on the line that Ellwood knew to be his breathing , and a thin , reedy , barely audible sound behind that , which resembled nothing so much as a cry that had been buried alive . |
| 19 | It is this basic human right that has been denied deaf persons and their families for hundreds of years . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before . |
| 21 | The fine drizzle that has been falling all afternoon has not been enough to stop the match between Scotland and Ireland , but enough to keep the crowds away . |
| 22 | At Lindholme prison in Doncaster , once-weekly two-hour sessions take place in a room that has been made available within the library and comfortably furnished with easy chairs and a coffee table . |
| 23 | The cast-iron bath continues the Victorian theme and has been painted pink on the outside to fit in with the rest of the decor . |
| 24 | But I was also involved in an insurance policy that has been made available for my patients , when they have that worst moment in their lives , you 've got cancer , you 've had a stroke , to know that in this threat , to what 's going to happen to them , they at least have financial independence . |
| 25 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 26 | The Womens Artist Slide Library is pleased to announce that it has succeeded in retaining its Arts Council funding for the publication of Women 's Art Magazine and has been offered financial assistance towards the running of the organisation over the next year . |
| 27 | Miaco were a well-known operator of DC-3s and other types out of the Island and had been overhauling radial piston engines as another facet of their business for over twenty years . |
| 28 | Thus , electoral districts in the United States must have , as far as is possible , an equal number of voters , since all men ( and women ) are considered by the US Constitution as having been created equal . |
| 29 | On the other hand , we realise that professional clinicians coming to the book might remain unconvinced about some of our chosen examples , as indeed might those readers who only feel comfortable with terms like ‘ schizophrenia ’ when they are used in a sense that has been given medical approval . |
| 30 | Of 720,000 sq ftof office space that has been completed this year , 350,000 sq ft has been let . |