Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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31 Now we have two wonderful sightscreens , and to make matters worse they have been positioned at either end of the ground .
32 They have been seen in many countries of Europe and in America .
33 Research has also indicated that many members of the upper strata owe their position primarily to the fact that they have been born into those strata and have capitalized on the advantages provided by their social background .
34 If they have been fitted to these new Foxbats , then the aircraft would have a potential complement of 6 to 8 AAMs in place of the current 4 … on top of its two wing-mounted 23mm electric cannon .
35 The sixteen paintings seem likely to remain with the Uffizi , where they have been stored for some time .
36 They have been replaced in many areas by an urban , overwhelmingly middle-class population which has been attracted by a combination of cheap housing ( until the late 1960s ) and by an idealized view of rural life which their ownership of a car has at last allowed them to indulge .
37 In contrast to this , I wish to argue that if disabled people display psychological abnormalities , this is because they have been socialised into such traits as a result of the ways in which society meets , or fails to meet , our needs , and that the claim that such features are a consequence of impairment is itself an aspect of the oppression of disabled people since it misidentifies , and thus does nothing to overcome , the main source of psychological distress .
38 In view of developments it might be argued that they have been justified in this view .
39 They have been supported by both sides of the House for many years .
40 In recent years several British ensembles have begun to draw upon an ‘ exotic ’ instrumentarium of this kind once again , but they have been marginalized to some degree .
41 ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals .
42 Yet if they have been done in this way it means they have not been done !
43 To some extent they have been driven to this by brutal economics .
44 They have been criticised by both those who accept active government intervention in economic affairs and by those who do not .
45 Professor Kelling used the term first for Carboniferous deposits on the Moroccan Meseta , but I have seen the same sort of thing in Jurassic carbonates on the Polish foreland and they have been described from many other horizons and areas , though not previously interpreted in this way .
46 But they have been left in little doubt that Washington would be displeased if they decided to help Vietnam 's programme to grow its forests anew .
47 As with all denizens of Fairyland , the glastyn may be perverse as well as benign by turn , and reports have been noted of those who have run amok , raping women and destroying crops if they have been slighted in any way .
48 I treated myself to some dried dates — very ‘ more-ish ’ so they have been guzzled by this Sunday evening !
49 It can be seen that comparisons between the sub-groups are made much easier if they have been sampled in this way ; there is no problem of having to cope with a preponderance of one group and a dearth of another if stratification has taken place beforehand .
50 Although they have been known for many years their evolutionary position is still hotly debated .
51 They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators .
52 The real test is whether they have been used in all the cases where there has been flagrant abuse , and I have reason to believe that the traffic commissioners are doing their job competently in that connection .
53 Get as much information as to why they have been put on that list .
54 Now villagers at Caergeiliog , on the A5 , claim they have been snubbed by former Welsh Secretary , David Hunt , and are planning to hold their own meeting with the backing of the island 's MP , Ieuan Wyn Jones .
55 Patients of this sort were first discovered in the late 1940s by Dr Theron G. Randolph , one of the founders of clinical ecology in America , and they have been reported by many other doctors since .
56 They have been pioneered in this country , the United States and Australia over the last few years mainly by individual schools and by some local education authorities .
57 Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) .
58 I wished to make the simple point that the Labour party 's ’ Fair Rates ’ document makes no reference to students , and to add that , in my view , our proposals offer students the best deal that they have been offered by any system of local finance .
59 You will see that almost without exception they have been included in this final document .
60 Variants of it have been used in many situations .
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