Example sentences of "[noun pl] have be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milkmen have been collecting tinned foods and medicine from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 2 | These anomalous crustal fragments have been given various names-suspect terrane , allochthonous terrane-but we will use the term displaced terrane ( Note that in this book the spelling ‘ terrane ’ is used to refer to structural units whereas ‘ terrain' is applied in a topographic sense . ) |
| 3 | Three backbenchers have been appointed junior whips : Mr Andrew Mackay , MP for Berkshire East , Mr Robert Hughes , MP for Harrow West and Mr James Arbuthnot , MP for Wanstead and Woodford . |
| 4 | The world 's top fashion designers have been creating spectacular outfits to help raise funds for the charity Oxfam in its fiftieth year . |
| 5 | Recently , car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market . |
| 6 | But already candidates have been holding informal sessions , enticing potential voters with great banquets of slaughtered sheep . |
| 7 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 8 | East Berliners have been offered free tickets for a football match today in West Berlin as well as to a number of concerts and the opera . |
| 9 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 10 | Employees and contractors have been given preferential treatment and get the total amount applied for . |
| 11 | Since then those lines have been undergoing separate evolution , giving rise to yet further , more recent branches . |
| 12 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 13 | The rebels have been conducting intensive negotiations with him behind the scenes . |
| 14 | Social workers have been given new powers to use force to control troublesome youngsters in care . |
| 15 | Gendarmes have been teaching French schoolchildren for twenty years , and claim by teaching kids , they teach their parents as well . |
| 16 | These advances have been accorded full acceptance with ready abandonment of firmly held convictions on all those matters which are now covered by the sciences , and which were in their earlier interpretations considered unquestionably true . |
| 17 | Leaders of the Muslim ‘ parliament ’ disclosed the plans exclusively to The People after it was learned that unscrupulous British dealers have been selling ordinary meat as Halal |
| 18 | Although it probably sounds odd that I am suggesting negotiating a written agreement with your teenager , psychologists have been using business-style contracts to resolve family conflicts for some years now . |
| 19 | But more recently banks have been providing other forms of merger funding-'mezzanine debt' , which does not rate as highly in terms of claims against the company 's assets , but provides additional financial resources . |
| 20 | Since March 20th , when the Bank of Japan raised its discount rate by a further 1% ( to 5.25% ) , the banks have been warning corporate customers that loans will now cost more than 7% . |
| 21 | The activities of building societies and banks have been given prime consideration when assessing the appropriate definition of money and the problem of implementation of monetary control ( Bank of England , Dec. 1984 ) . |
| 22 | US electricity generators have been given new limits on the amount of sulphur dioxide they can emit after 1995 . |
| 23 | Other unit trust managers have been using statistical tools to measure volatility as an aid to investment . |
| 24 | However , some canny high-yield managers have been targeting blue chip convertibles as a way of locking in income , limiting the short-term threat and yet keeping the door open to future capital appreciation . |
| 25 | ACCORDING to one customer of Barclays Bank in Guildford , managers have been following freezing clients around with fan heaters , explaining : ‘ It 's because the heating is controlled by a central computer . ’ |
| 26 | Today is the European Day for disabled people and campaigners have been demanding improved facilities in city centres . |
| 27 | But in the Soviet Union , physicists have been making steady progress for 10 years in speeding up QCD calculations . |
| 28 | Many critics of the encouragement provided until recently by the UK 's investment grants system in LFAs argue that farmers have been converting increasing areas of moorland and roughland to grass leys ( attracting substantial grants and more HLCAs ) while neglecting pastures previously improved and not maintaining standards of husbandry and land management . |
| 29 | Throughout its production , prospective 46 owners have been offered varied combinations of up to five rig and keel options and three accommodation layouts , therefore ensuring the brokerage buyer tremendous choice in the specification of his pre-owned 46 . |
| 30 | CONSERVATIONISTS striving to free six sperm whales trapped in Orkney waters have been offered underwater sonar equipment in an attempt to lure the stricken mammals to safety . |