Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think most of the plots have been written , and it a genre that has been written out in the way that the Western was written out . |
| 2 | The dishwasher has been tucked away in the central island and is opposite the main sink , so dishes can be quickly rinsed and put out of sight . |
| 3 | Yes sir , er ever since P P G three was revised at the beginning of last year , I believe that the department has been moving steadily in the direction that indicated but certainly my brief here is quite specific . |
| 4 | The use of CAI in library instruction has been developed largely in the USA . |
| 5 | The balance has been placed mostly in the Philippines and Indonesia . |
| 6 | Our understanding of the natural occurrence of Bt has been revised dramatically in the past few years . |
| 7 | An earlier proposal was £8 , but that has been scaled down in the face of protest . |
| 8 | Another concern which has been raised recently in the UK is the excessive amount of aluminium present in some baby milk powders , and this is exacerbated in certain areas of the country where the tap water used in reconstituting the milk also shows a relatively high aluminium content . |
| 9 | Jem has been beaten up in the street by three men . |
| 10 | A lot has been said already in the English-speaking world about poststructuralism and politics , much of it in the accusatory mode voiced from the opposing class-based verities of ‘ tradition ’ or ‘ History ’ . |
| 11 | However , it must be remembered that much of the work until these last few weeks has been undertaken outside in the kind of conditions experienced by most preservationists . |
| 12 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 13 | It was the first time an Iraqi plane has been shot down in the southern no-fly zone , set up to prevent Saddam attacking the Shi'ites . |
| 14 | It is possible they dropped onto the Yorkshire coast after migrating from somewhere south of Britain for no flock of this size has been seen anywhere in the country through the winter . |
| 15 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | His Teflon-coating has been peeling off in the heat of the election campaign . |
| 17 | All this implies , as has been pointed out in the collected evidence presented to the 1987 Select Committee inquiry into the implementation of the 1981 Education Act ( cf vol 2 of the evidence ) , and to many others since then involved in attempts at educational reform : |
| 18 | It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them . |
| 19 | With cereal-based foods , fibre value depends to a large degree on how much has been stripped away in the milling and refining processes . |
| 20 | He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach . |
| 21 | The station has been converted to burn confiscated marijuana which has been piling up in the warehouses of the local police forces . |
| 22 | The question makes particular sense given the way the debate over academic freedom has been cast both in the UK and in the USA . |
| 23 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 24 | She has been feeding intensively in the neighbourhood , building up in her body the reserves from which she will produce her eggs . |
| 25 | This department has been assessed regularly in the past so it was n't a new experience , but the heightened focus of attention was new ’ . |
| 26 | The cage has been positioned overnight in the burrow entrance , and the ferret has emerged . |
| 27 | The deal may lead to others , although nothing has been signed yet in the UK or the US . |
| 28 | In some countries , action has been taken further in the form of political protest movements . |
| 29 | It has been thrown away in the haste of cobbling together a package of ‘ tough new laws ’ whenever the Government felt the need for legislative machismo . |
| 30 | So far its class-based line has been almost exclusively animated by a critique of race awareness training — a practical strategy which has been thrown up in the grating between the first two tendencies . |