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

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1 Stuart Caughey of Rolls Wood Group [ Repair and Overhauls ] repair division has recently been awarded Junior Chamber Aberdeen 's Sillerton Quaich for being its best new member .
2 User has already been passed this SPR
3 The board has also been having ongoing talks with potential investors , but it was understood last night that the present worrying situation remained unchanged .
4 The workers ' faith has not been repaid this week — in a region which had escaped many of the severe job cuts which had hit other cities .
5 The first practice game for Brian Horton as manchester city manager was in the back garden of his woodstock home with twins matthew and lucy … some United fans are glad to see him go … sadly his passion for good football … his achievement of keeping a small club alfoat with little or no money has n't been given enough credit … he did the club proud …
6 The first practice game for Brian Horton as manchester city manager was in the back garden of his woodstock home with twins matthew and lucy … some United fans are glad to see him go … sadly his passion for good football … his achievement of keeping a small club alfoat with little or no money has n't been given enough credit … he did the club proud …
7 Our intention has not been to present any firm typology so much as to indicate the possibilities for variations in visionary style , and to map out some important dimensions of visionary leadership .
8 The plaintiff will still have to make the necessary amendments to his statement of claim and , if he has left it this late to do so , may well find himself in difficulty over costs if the action has to be stood out or adjourned because the defendant has not been given adequate notice .
9 The Research Programme has always been considered vital at Henley as a means of training people for academic appointments .
10 ‘ My own department has not been standing still .
11 Around £2,000 of the target figure has already been banked much of it following the fund raising activities of Albert 's colleagues .
12 In fact , the only one not now in profit is fertilizers , and strong action has already been taken that Lindsell is confident will lead to renewed health in this remaining problem area over the next two or three years .
13 ‘ Look , mother , ’ Craig held the book towards her , ‘ Mr Faraday 's account is short by several hundreds of pounds , this loss has partly been made good by taking money paid in to the company by General Webber .
14 Ukraine participated in a non-voting capacity , since its head of delegation had not been given plenary powers other than to sign agreements on co-operation in meteorology , environmental protection , and electricity production ( Ukraine did not in fact sign these agreements ) .
15 ( WES ) The club have today been studying Central 's tape of the incident .
16 The law has not been standing still since Jorden v. Money .
17 Tax relief on forest ownership has also been abolished due to the media uproar of 1988 when it was revealed that celebrities and business corporations were investing in conifer plantations as a tax dodge .
18 ‘ That lady has n't been reported missing , and she is definitely fully adult .
19 How much worse the problem must be in our larger inner-city areas , whose suffering has recently been laid bare by the national press .
20 In that case no such presumption could exist : on the contrary where Parliament had provided that the decision of an inferior court was final and conclusive the High Court should not be astute to find that the inferior court 's decision on a question of law had not been made final and conclusive , thereby excluding the jurisdiction to review it .
21 The point has already been made that industry here can include nationally or internationally orientated services like DHSS Longbenton .
22 Since the point has now been taken that in my judgment in that case I did not support that particular passage from the Master of the Rolls ' judgment , I should state that the reason was because I did not find it necessary to do so in the particular circumstances of that case .
23 On the hearing of the petition , the court may : ( i ) make a bankruptcy order ; or ( ii ) make a bankruptcy order and issue a certificate for the summary administration of the bankrupt 's estate ( where the total debts do not exceed the " small bankruptcies level " , currently £20,000 , and the bankrupt has not been adjudicated bankrupt before in the last five years nor has he entered into any composition with his creditors or scheme of arrangement ) ( s 275 ) ; ( iii ) make a bankruptcy order and appoint the former supervisor of a voluntary arrangement as trustee provided that notice of the supervisor 's intention to seek appointment as a trustee was given in the petition and to the creditors ; ( iv ) appoint an insolvency practitioner to prepare a report under s 273 .
24 Indeed , the committee submits that ‘ throughout our aim has not been to advance any particular viewpoint , but simply to identify the relevant facts .
25 The government 's aim has always been to attract foreign investment ; only its tactics have changed as the tiny city-state ( 639 sq km ) matures and looks for more sophisticated investors to help it achieve the longed-for ‘ developed nation ’ status by 2030 .
26 All too often the profit earned on an individual house or indeed a development as a whole is less than would have been made if the site had merely been left undeveloped and sold at the end of the development period .
27 The American military had indeed been giving some some tentative thought to the use of atomic weapons in response to the Chinese victories in Korea .
28 If the reason for resorting to war had traditionally been to achieve territorial conquests , to obtain markets and raw materials , or to overthrow leaders of whom one did not approve , then the events of the First World War offered a corrective .
29 I joined the local ARP Services , and as my husband had not been considered fit for Navy service yet , he did too , unofficially of course .
30 Such was the emotion caused by the attack that it was some time before any of the defenders recalled that the Collector had not been feeling well and wondered what had become of him .
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