Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [adv] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She has also been painted this year by Howard Morgan , for Unilever .
2 Rick Shearman , defending , said : ‘ She has now been raped four times .
3 Which is odd , since he has n't been doing any work for me . ’
4 He has since been granted temporary leave to stay in Britain .
5 He has since been proved right by the discovery first of a statuette , then of an unfinished statue , which combine head and body .
6 He has already been booked four times this season and two more cautions will result in automatic suspension .
7 Dr Richard Scorgie , whose mother , Peggy , lives in Flora Avenue , is a consultant in geriatric medicine at Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen ; he has also been appointed associate unit general manager ( medical administration ) and vice-chairman of the unit management board .
8 Jones has a lovely service but he has not been looking good behind a struggling pack .
9 The objections to assessing whether the hearing would have made a difference are not confined to those expressed by Megarry J. A superior court in the context of review is not in a good position to calculate whether a hearing would have made a difference , and to do so could well leave the individual with the feeling that he has not been afforded any opportunity of controverting the public body 's view .
10 After he graduated from London 's Faculty of Astrological Studies , his star talents were spotted by veteran astrologer Patrick Walker and he has now been casting daily horoscopes for The Sun for over ten years .
11 I am told that he has now been adjudicated bankrupt for a second time .
12 He has recently been appointed Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre , while maintaining his work for Cheek by Jowl .
13 But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge .
14 Since the passages are of approximately the same length , it has not been felt necessary to give percentages in those parts of the table where numbers are small .
15 The old simplicity of purpose and quiet efficiency continues as always , without any notice of the passing centuries ; it has not been found necessary to install the telephone .
16 It has also been decided that continuity will be best served by developing a much closer working relationship between Birtwell and the respective Canada under 21 and under 19 coaches , Paul Horne and Don Burgess ( under 21s ) and David Docherty and Doug Sturrock ( under 19s ) .
17 It has also been made clear that where an unmet need is recorded which the department has a legal duty to provide , it could be used as the basis for a legal challenge , although it should still be recorded .
18 It has also been shown that cholera toxin and heat stable enterotoxin of Escherichia coli can induce fluid secretion in the rat colon .
19 ( ii ) defective floating charges It has also been thought unjust to allow an unsecured creditor to obtain priority to other creditors by obtaining a floating charge when he realises that liquidation is imminent .
20 It has also been reported that frusemide inhibits glucose transport ( Jung & Mookerjee , 1976 ) .
21 Earth tremors caused structural damage in Angra village in 1988 but the nuclear plant 's operators , state-owned Furnas Centrais Electricas , denied that the reactor had been damaged , although it has since been closed several times for " repairs " .
22 It has equally been mooted that postmodernism in the aesthetic realm — and I have argued that such postmodernism first surfaced in the Surrealism and more generally in the historical avant-garde of the 1920s — has been an important condition of formation of poststructuralism in the human sciences ( Huyssen 1984 ; see above , Chapter Three ) .
23 However , it has neither been thought desirable nor feasible to require formal evaluations of alternative programmes , treatments or technologies at the local level .
24 It has even been suggested that three-quarters of what we know as adults we learned in childhood .
25 It has even been held that presence remains no more than evidence of encouragement even when it is accompanied by a secret intention to help if necessary one of the participants in an affray .
26 It has already been made clear that the definition of a ‘ professional ’ degree course being adopted here is an operational rather than conceptual one : it is a course which has a consistent and fairly exclusive relationship with a particular occupation , exclusive in that graduates from such courses tend not to go into other occupations , and in that entry to that occupation is largely or wholly restricted to graduates from such courses .
27 In the ease studies so far considered it has already been made clear that the particular study itself is , as it were , the product of a set of concerns in politics .
28 Although the tail of this aircraft is still camouflaged. the rest of it has already been painted blue overall .
29 It is difficult to see why it has ever been supposed otherwise-that generality and number in themselves somehow fight with causation sensibly conceived .
30 Not surprisingly perhaps , it has only been repeated three or four times in 14 years !
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