Example sentences of "[noun prp] [unc] [noun pl] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently Menwith Hill 's operations have been so successful that a $26 million expansion programme has been approved as part of the Project P415 programme . |
| 2 | No one speaks till the news is over and Ken 's cobwebs have been well and truly blown away . |
| 3 | This exercise is valuable in helping to show how a distorted version of Freud 's ideas has been widely diffused within many institutional spheres of American life , from social work agencies to industrial management training , religious institutions , and to the private sphere of marriage and family life . |
| 4 | The Communist International quite deliberately set out to create " sections " under its detailed control , which would be more easily disciplined than the Second International parties which in Lenin 's eyes had been too independent to act together on the outbreak of war . |
| 5 | With the recent and spectacular exception of Paul ‘ Gazza ’ Gascoigne , England 's heroes have been consistently straight . |
| 6 | It would be an exaggeration to imply that Vogel 's views have been slavishly followed by Japanese or Western writers . |
| 7 | JOHN UPSON 'S horses have been so badly hit by a throat infection that only six out of his 30-strong string are fit to run . |
| 8 | As Gorbachev pointed out in an interview in early 1991 , only about 30 per cent of the USSR 's boundaries had been legally defined . |
| 9 | That assertion may sound surprising given the arguments in the West that Boris Yeltsin 's reforms have been too much , too soon . |
| 10 | In fact on occasion the Autarch 's suppressions had been more draconian still . |
| 11 | The reason is that Malaysia 's exports have been much stronger . |
| 12 | The music had sounded exactly like all other music he had ever heard , and the intervals between Louise Müller 's appearances had been rather tedious , but the display of her charms had provided more than adequate compensation for the occasional ennui Lefevre had enjoyed it even more , expressing his enthusiasm at the end by shouting , ‘ Bravo ! ’ standing , and clapping his hands above his head . |
| 13 | The diagnoses of Britain 's problems have been as varied as the problems themselves . |
| 14 | Sadly not every one of St Peter 's successors has been as appreciative of his work as they might have been . |
| 15 | All Morton 's protests had been sternly rejected . |
| 16 | Mandy 's parents had been understandably concerned at her friendship with Mark , but their demands on her had been bordering on the unreasonable . |
| 17 | This interpretation of Thompson 's findings has been further strengthened by the results of his most recent studies in which he has shown that the engram can be ‘ forgotten ’ and ‘ retrieved ’ . |
| 18 | Mr Major 's sackings had been widely discounted in advance , and would have been more extensive but for Mr Chris Patten and Mr Francis Maude losing their parliamentary seats . |
| 19 | This is the first occasion when one of Palazzo Grassi 's exhibitions has been so closely linked with a Venetian public institution . |
| 20 | Nigeria 's rainforests have been so exploited for logs that the country now imports more hardwood than it exports . |
| 21 | In general the AWB 's awards have been niggardly — at times extremely so . |
| 22 | Galbraith 's views have been widely criticised , most frequently on grounds of exaggeration , though it should be noted that he does not suggest that the revised sequence has replaced the accepted sequence , but that there is a complex inter-action between the two . |
| 23 | Julie and Elizabeth 's relatives have been over to South Africa and were not treated very well at all by the police . |
| 24 | America 's airlines have been badly hit by the world recession . |
| 25 | Cooperation with the professionals required acceptance of the framework within which John 's needs had been professionally cast : that it was their deficits as parents which had created John 's needs . |
| 26 | One or two of Miss Loren 's films have been more notable for the depth of cleavage displayed than any profoundness of plot . |
| 27 | Even when Pearce 's innards had been completely absorbed and digested , the thing 's need was still strong . |
| 28 | After Mark 's funeral Robyn 's lips had been so painful that she had hardly been able to speak or smile for days — but then that had suited her fine , still suited her , although no one guessed , except Anne perhaps . |