Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN BEESLEY 'S range has been extended to include virtually all items of footplate equipment , the largest item being a 9-foot long clinker shovel ! |
| 2 | 1.3 Problems caused by the judgment in Faccenda Chicken The judgment of the Court of Appeal in the Faccenda case has been perceived to cause as many problems as it has solved . |
| 3 | But Wittgenstein has been seen to argue convincingly that naming is a subsidiary use of language and that many substantives are not used for this purpose ( the psychological participles like ‘ thinking ’ being the obvious example ) and , furthermore , that naming itself is not a sort of primal act of speech acquisition but a clutch of language-games that need to be mastered like any others . |
| 4 | A new brush , recently launched by British brushmakers Pro Arte , has been produced to meet exactly these demands . |
| 5 | The famous American film star , W C Fields , has been known to earn as much as £1,000 a day and yet he has said that his greatest thrill in life is the luxury of stretching out at night between freshly laundered sheets . |
| 6 | The seminar fee has been reduced to encourage as many members and non-members as possible to register and attend . |
| 7 | Since St Petersburg University also employed Konstantin Kavelin ( the prime advocate of conferring land as well as liberty on the peasants ) , Vladimir Spasovich ( an enthusiastic Polish nationalist ) , Aleksandr Pypin ( a cousin of the trenchant journalist Nikolai Chernyshevskii ) and Boris Utin ( a former associate of Mikhail Petrashevskii ) , it could have been said to represent almost all the forward-looking opinions of the day . |
| 8 | Police said a vehicle must have been used to carry away all the equipment and officers are asking anyone with information to contact them on Middlesbrough 326326 . |
| 9 | At times it seems as though it may have been evolved to do just that . ’ |
| 10 | Conversely , instances of anti-abortion legislation which went far beyond the Pennsylvania statute — particularly in Louisiana , Utah and Guam , where attempts had been made to outlaw almost all abortions — appeared doomed to failure . |
| 11 | Worse still , the chess table and its two attendant stone seats had been hacked and scratched , and a paint spray had been used to produce yet more graffiti . |
| 12 | In other words that and had been allowed to retain too many constituencies : 14 , instead of the 11 it should have had . |
| 13 | She had been allowed to have only those boyfriends whom her parents deemed suitable . |
| 14 | The houses have been built to incorporate as many energy saving features as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences . |
| 16 | I know in the recession of lot of parents have been forced to do just that , but it was always going to be a last resort and thankfully this winter 's tour means they can stay on where they are . |
| 17 | These ‘ norms ’ have been shown to have very little relevance to the commercial 's subsequent marketplace performance , even if they are derived solely for the particular brand being advertised , and it is by no means clear what is actually being measured : it is certainly not the effectiveness of the commercial in the marketplace . |
| 18 | WE used to lead the way , set the trend ; things have been allowed to drift so much that now we 're struggling to catch up ’ . |
| 19 | The Pennyland estate in Milton Keynes has over 100 houses that have been designed to catch as much sun as possible , cutting annual heating bills by 40 per cent and costing just one per cent more to build . |