Example sentences of "[coord] have [been] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Of the early basilicas , built in the second-fourth centuries A.D. none exists entirely unaltered , but sufficient survives or has been carefully rebuilt to the original pattern to give a clear idea of what such churches were like .
2 Most roofs exceed these minimum requirements , but if they are inadequate or have been seriously affected by bad workmanship , poor quality timber , woodworm , dry rot , wet rot , and so on , the eventual result is seen in sagging roofs , displaced or split timbers , twisted and open joints — and visible movement of walls at eaves level .
3 This car has been in use since Easter and has been enthusiastically praised by the people , mainly volunteers , who have been staffing it .
4 ‘ Oh , Mr Porter ! ’ ( 1937 ) , with Will Hay the stationmaster of Buggleskelly , is regarded as both the popular and critical pick of the genre , and has been favourably compared with the work of the Marx Brothers .
5 This is a significant area of importance in the Catholic school and has been clearly expressed in several documents but attention is drawn to Position Paper 4 ( Catholic Education Commission ) .
6 The latest implementation , X Window Version 11 Release 3 , emerged a year ago , and has been widely adopted by Unix suppliers and by DEC , with Unix ( Ultrix ) and VAX VMS versions .
7 The Spielberger anxiety scale consists of twenty statements that gauge how respondents feel ‘ right now , at this moment ’ and has been widely evaluated in healthy American adults and in non-psychiatric hospital inpatients .
8 This proposal was enthusiastically approved by the Central Council of ACTS and has been well received by member churches which are appointing local representatives for each of the forty six areas .
9 A stress on responsibilities as well as rights has been a significant and long-standing feature of the British culture and has been well imbued by a large part of the nation 's political elite .
10 This concept of selective insulin resistance is not new and has been well demonstrated in animal models .
11 Thank you Mr Mayor , erm I I want to be very brief Mr Mayor , that the debate on houses and rent increases has taken place and has been well aired over recent weeks and I do n't have any intention tonight of re-debating those issues .
12 This board is about six feet by four feet with two side boards , and has been previously spread to a depth of about one inch with wet clay .
13 But its seventy-year history has distinct phases and has been increasingly unified by a self-conscious aim on the part of its practitioners to make it a ‘ science ’ .
14 Swordfish is a great delicacy in Europe , and has been traditionally caught on longlines , although catch rates have been declining in recent years .
15 Clinton dismissed the allegations as " an old story that was widely reported in 1978 and has been regularly recycled by the Republicans " .
16 He knows his subject well , and has been ably assisted by R. James Bender , an extremely capable researcher and historian .
17 The major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) is a polymorphic multigene family encoding two classes of cell surface glycoproteins class I and class II , and has been extensively studied in mice and humans .
18 As Ives ( 1987 ) has pointed out , the issue of environmental degradation in the Himalaya is extremely complex and has been extensively debated during the 1980s , giving rise to what he describes as the Himalaya Environmental Degradation Theory ( HEDT ) .
19 Launched by Mayer and Timms and continued by , among others , Sainsbury and his colleagues at the University of Sheffield , this new approach to the evaluation of social work has revealed previously uncharted areas of knowledge , and has been extensively reviewed in recent years ( Sainsbury , 1980 ; Craig , 1981 ; Rees and Wallace , 1982 ; Fisher , 1983 ) .
20 It was discovered by LASMO in 1989 and has been successfully appraised by three wells , all of which flowed gas on test rates in the range 29–38 million cu ft per day from a depth of 3,300m .
21 Another patient with a low fistula has had her pouch excised and has been successfully converted to a Kock ileostomy because of severe ileoanal stenosis requiring pouch intubation that became socially unacceptable .
22 This general view is still often held by anthropologists and has been repeatedly advocated by , among others , the British anthropologist E. R. Leach , for example , in his article ‘ Concerning Trobriand Clans and the Kinship Category Tapu ’ Leach , 1958 ] .
23 The Z-Score techniques originated in the US more than 20 years ago with a US professor , Ed Altman , at New York University , and has been continuously refined since then .
24 It is reddish , with a K-type spectrum , and has been strongly suspected of variability ; it is over 500 light-years away , and 5000 times as luminous as the Sun .
25 Although there is no evidence that liberation has led to greater female criminality , such a view is widely held and has been strongly expressed in the popular press .
26 The satellite is to be deployed 22,300 miles above the equator , and has been variously described in the technical press as designed to monitor Soviet compliance with arms treaties and as an advanced eavesdropping satellite , able to monitor , record and re-transmit hundreds of Soviet communications channels , including voice , data and telemetry .
27 It has been seen as a significant feature of contemporary Britain and has been variously offered as a partial explanation of the continuing success of the Conservative party and its socially atypical leadership .
28 Lee makes firm judgements , as in this comment on a cave painting from the seventh century : ‘ The most famous figure at Ajanta is in Cave 1 and has been often described as the ‘ Beautiful Bodhisattva ’ .
29 The presence of this acid microenvironment was first suggested by studies in the 1950s on intestinal absorption of weak acids , and has been subsequently confirmed by microelectrodes in several species , including man .
30 It has been accidently transferred from animals to man and has been experimentally transmitted from man to calves and mice .
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