Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition among state-financed institutions has also been heightened in other services . |
| 2 | In this approach the high level of unionisation in Sweden is not the result of any cultural propensity on the part of the Swedish population ( because of its ethnic homogeneity ) to seek objectives by way of interest group organisations — a factor which Adams ( 1975 ) notes has sometimes been suggested by way of explanation . |
| 3 | Opposite The Indian elephant 's ability to manipulate heavy objects has long been exploited by man . |
| 4 | Poorly appreciated during his life and for many years after his death , this period of his work was reassessed by a touring exhibition sponsored by the Hayward Gallery in 1981 , but a substantial group of his later canvases has never been shown in the context of his whole development . |
| 5 | A preliminary account of events up to the mid-1970s has already been given for both locales , which will stand as an account for Cramlington but some elaboration is necessary for North Shields . |
| 6 | Some of the technology the group is using such as speculative loads has never been used before and as a result the designers believe the specification will stand unmodified for the next twenty years with only a few extensions . |
| 7 | Much of the responsibility for running our community and educational programmes has now been devolved to our business and operating sites . |
| 8 | A similar series of separate openings has recently been found in Astraspis which is another early heterostracan but without the large shield-like armour . |
| 9 | O. troscheli has only been recorded from the western Atlantic ; from Bermuda 796 m . |
| 10 | The distribution of price changes or returns has often been found to be leptokurtic . |
| 11 | signals has recently been announced by Ampsys Ltd. , a small spin off company of Paisley College . |
| 12 | The price of BZW 's ill-considered worldwide expansion in equities has already been paid by Howard Coates : in February he was sacked as head of the firm 's equities division , though he remains with BZW . |
| 13 | Retrospective appraisal by clients has already been rejected as a lawyer-influenced criterion . |
| 14 | A range of non-information utilities has also been announced for the launch of the DD-DR1 drive , published and marketed by HAL Kenkyujo at prices ranging from Y12,000 to Y18,000 . |
| 15 | None of the remaining six Labours has yet been identified on British pottery . |
| 16 | The paper which is more less suitable for publishing art books has always been made in Ukraine . |
| 17 | The attraction of shells has often been enhanced by attributing to them symbolic meanings suggested by more or less fanciful resemblances . |
| 18 | A new range of shampoos , scents and perfumed oils for pampered pets has just been launched in America . |
| 19 | The guideline of whether a dispute has been formulated between the parties has recently been restated in Ipswich Borough Council v Fisons plc [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 108 . |
| 20 | Most jobs out of branches require that at least six months has previously been spent as a branch general manager . |
| 21 | If the phases were to be overlapped in this way , it would clearly be necessary for the Supplement entries to have already been positioned in their correct places following corresponding OED entries or between unrelated OED entries , as described above . |
| 22 | For them , however , there was no single champion who had forged a South Slav empire which flourished before the arrival of the alien invaders , for until 1918 the Yugoslav peoples had never been united in a single state . |
| 23 | Four organizations had reportedly been issued with documentation by May 28 . |
| 24 | The Yang brothers had previously been regarded as close allies of Deng . |
| 25 | So the Imperial Fists scrutinised transcripts of trials and criminal records involving youngsters , hunting for a special blend of ingenuity , daring , will power — quite often suitable candidates had already been executed by the time the Fists learned of their existence , now cut short by poison gas or explosive bullet . |
| 26 | A total of eight candidates had originally been registered for the presidential contest [ see pp. 38768-69 ] , but one , Joseph Estrada , had later decided to withdraw his candidature in favour of contesting the vice-presidency . |
| 27 | The supposed decline in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere would explain why the air-breathing animals had only been created in the later stages of the earth 's history . |
| 28 | Her father 's stern presence had prevented such scenes of gay ebullience , but the weary harvesters had always been welcomed with heartfelt gratitude and hospitality into her mother 's kitchen , where the tables groaned with an array of fare equally good as that now placed before the workers of Thorsbury . |
| 29 | By the end of January new opposition parties had also been formed in Macedonia , Serbia and Vojvodina . |
| 30 | Other Latin American countries at various stages of the full or provisional accession process at the end of 1989 were El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras and Paraguay ( for this last country see p. 36688 ) , while working parties had also been established on requests for accession by Tunisia ( which had acceded provisionally in 1960 ) , Bulgaria ( see p. 35030 ) and Algeria . |