Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [been] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A. The number of people in the larger cities has been growing rapidly during the last 50 years . |
| 2 | However , the chasm between the pluralist and Marxist views has been narrowing encouragingly in recent years ( McLennan , 1999 ) . |
| 3 | Use of Ingres products has been expanding rapidly in Eastern Europe over the past few years through local distributors in the Czech Republic , Hungary , Poland , Slovakia , and Slovenia , the company says , with customers including the Polish Central Statistical Office and the Stock Exchange in Budapest , Hungary . |
| 4 | The existence of powerless groups has been highlighted even by those who extol the virtues of the Japanese commitment to consensus . |
| 5 | The current exhibition of his sculptures , drawings , paintings , and designs has been put together by the Museum der Bildenden Künste of Leipzig and sent to Frankfurt in return for the Städel 's Max Beckmann exhibition which was shown in Leipzig in 1990 . |
| 6 | A grim catalogue of up to 80 defects in 23 homes has been put together by the residents in Chessel Close at Bradley Stoke , near Bristol . |
| 7 | In the rural areas of Wales and Scotland the tradition of non-partisan elections continues in some areas , but even so the role of the parties has been growing consistently since local government reorganisation ( Gyford and James 1983:2 ; Keating and Midwinter 1983 ; 107 — 13 ) . |
| 8 | A British Transport police spokesman said : ‘ Fans had been drinking heavily before the accident and would have been fairly merry . ’ |
| 9 | In Ghana the forest animals had been killed mostly for food , ‘ bush meat ’ . |
| 10 | Her eyes had been drawn inexorably to the dark-haired , dark-suited figure , so still and silent among the laughing , chattering crowd . |
| 11 | Many of the broadcasters and journalists had been trained either in Europe or locally by Europeans , and many also looked to Europe as their guide to what broadcasting and journalism were for . |
| 12 | Mr Hall denied this and maintained his 270 new recruits had been bonded together by the ugly scenes which confronted them each day as they passed picket lines . |
| 13 | The ovoid seemed to project a kind of deadly aura and , as Rostov compared the black egg shape with his memory of the framework structures which he had encountered previously , he wondered if the designers had been striving consciously for the visual effect which they had achieved . |
| 14 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 15 | Somebody calculated that if the surface of the earth was covered with a layer of protein molecules a metre thick , right over the whole surface of the earth erm each one , each protein different from every other one , and let us suppose furthermore that each of these proteins had been changing once as second , uniquely , into some different kind ever since the formation of the earth , we would still have tried out only quite a small fraction of the available possible proteins a hundred amino acids long . |
| 16 | Rallies had been held repeatedly since March 26 in Dushanbe , the capital , organized by the opposition parties calling for the resignation of the Supreme Soviet Chair , Sarafali Kenjayev . |
| 17 | These Guidelines have been produced specifically for employees in the Department of Social Work . |
| 18 | So far as observation and knowledge of the world is concerned , the beliefs of the northern peoples have been dismissed equally by the Russian Orthodox Church and by the Communists as benighted superstition which imprisoned them mentally in a fear of evil spirits . |
| 19 | conscious … that their peoples have been living together in peace since 1945 ; |
| 20 | Some arguments against Copernicus based on astronomical considerations have been mentioned earlier in this book . |
| 21 | WAITING lists have been cut significantly at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 22 | Two of the seven survivors have been sent home from Guy 's , the Tories ' flagship opt-out hospital . |
| 23 | Computers have been working overtime at corporate headquarters since last Tuesday 's announcement in an attempt to assess the impact on individual project and company cash flow . |
| 24 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 25 | Proposals for a system of price-based scales to tax the private-use benefit of company cars have been put forward in an Inland Revenue consultative document , Company Cars : Reform of the Income Tax Treatment . |
| 26 | Proposals for introducing a system of price-based scales to tax the private-use benefit of company cars have been put forward in an Inland Revenue consultative document , Company Cars : Reform of the Income Tax Treatment . |
| 27 | The Revenue treat the separation as likely to be permanent if the parties have been living apart for one year ( Pinson on Revenue Law , 17th edn , para 38 – 04 ) . |
| 28 | Doubts have been raised both on ethical and scientific grounds . |
| 29 | A number of branches have been formed both at home and overseas and many more graduates who are not currently members of the Association , or with whom the association has lost touch , have been enquiring about membership . |
| 30 | Approximate methods have been required therefore for any practical use of relaxation theory . |