Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the term ‘ untrainable ’ may still be found in official classifications of mental handicap to describe the profoundly handicapped , it has been recognised officially since 1971 that no child is ineducable . |
| 2 | Hanson has been built up into one of Britain 's leading companies over a period of twenty years based on an acquisition philosophy which involves a reduction in the acquired company 's bureaucracy , devolution of responsibility to local managers , a tight control of capital expenditure and a disposal of some of the peripheral assets which are not part of the company 's ‘ core activities ’ . |
| 3 | The Electrochemical Technology business has been built up since 1981 to capitalize on ICI 's expertise in chlor-alkali production and electrochemistry. the FM21 membrane cell has been sold since that year , mainly as part of a chlor-alkali production package , but recent developments have led to its use in the manufacture of more complex speciality or ‘ effect ’ chemicals . |
| 4 | It has been built up since 1975 by combining Fiat 's original truck division in Italy with foreign acquisitions : Unic in France , Magirus in Germany , Pegaso in Spain and Iveco Ford in the UK ( in which Fiat has a 48% stake , but controls operations ) . |
| 5 | One of Napier 's longest-running courses has been phased out after 24 years . |
| 6 | It has been cut back to 700 shops , each with just six departments . |
| 7 | Today 's new generation of black directors has been spurred on by two particular success stories . |
| 8 | Some of the most significant work of industrial archaeology has been done here since 1959 , and the industrial buildings and relics of the district are in the hands of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum ( q.v . ) . |
| 9 | This year in itself , the single person has been done out of two pound ninety pence and er after the er older ones that 's four pound odd . |
| 10 | The reserve has been extended eastwards by 55,000 hectares to the River Usumancinta on the Guatemalan border . |
| 11 | As a result , output has been revised upwards by 0.2 per cent in the first two quarters and 0.3 per cent in the third , and the trend throughout 1992 now looks even flatter than before . |
| 12 | Manufacturing industry is now expected to grow by 1.6 per cent this year , against only 0.5 per cent last November , but the forecast for 1994 has been revised down to 2.8 per cent from 3.1 per cent . |
| 13 | The importance of housing costs in the retail price index has been scaled down from 172 per mille to 164 , motoring costs from 143 to 136 per mille , and food from 152 to 144 per mille . |
| 14 | Yet Berlin is also where the new Europe of old ideals has been born again in 1989 . |
| 15 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 16 | HARTLEPOOL United defender Keith Nobbs has been ruled out for four weeks . |
| 17 | The £750,000 Payton has been ruled out for two weeks with a torn hamstring sustained in the FA Cup replay defeat by Portsmouth . |
| 18 | The direct tram service between Fleetwood and Blackpool has been maintained continuously since 1898 , with the single exception of winter 1963/4 when buses ran between Blackpool and Cleveleys . |
| 19 | The case of the proposed sale by London University 's Royal Holloway College of a good Turner , Constable and Gainsborough ( in that order ) from the collection given to it by its founder Thomas Holloway has been rumbling on since 1988 , arousing increasing indignation in some academic and most heritage circles . |
| 20 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 21 | First novel by one of the Best of Young British Novelists of 1983 who has been selected again in 1993 . |
| 22 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 23 | Each turkey , fresh from the taxidermist , has been tarted up in one sort of drag or another from Parlour maid to Kabuki actor and , who knows ? maybe even Uncle Sam . |
| 24 | Close the two lapels , and continuing the old traditional method , bind firmly but not too tightly with raffia — you can buy this as ‘ bass ’ from a sundries shop — that has been prepared previously into 18 inch ( 45cm ) lengths and well soaked to make it soft and pliable . |
| 25 | The room has some striking windows bearing the stained glass coats of arms of the Swiss cantons , and can be visited when the district court , which has been meeting there since 1876 , is not in session . |
| 26 | Experiments have been using deuterium alone , and the temperature of the plasma has been pushed up to 300 million degrees . |
| 27 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 28 | Although the TEC has been operating only since 1 April this year , Roy Knott and his team have shown that they are dedicated to the employment training future for Shropshire . |
| 29 | This technique has been discovered independently by two different groups of birds — the weaverbirds of Africa which are closely related to the European sparrow , and the icterids of the Americas which include such birds as the caciques and the oropendolas . |
| 30 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |