Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [adv] [subord] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years the H.T. has been grown more than any other , both as bush and standard , and such is the sublime beauty of the opening bud that H.T.s invariably take all the prizes at the shows . |
| 2 | While officials in New York refused to confirm that the USTA could forget any idea of financial aid , there is no doubt that , in the current world recession , New York has been hit harder than most and that Mayor David Dinkins , although an avid tennis fan , would have difficulty in getting approval for the money to be spent improving access roads etc to a new tennis facility , in view of all their other problems |
| 3 | Since then , the homoeopathic materia medica has been expanded considerably as more and more remedies are proved . |
| 4 | Such a control group could also have been identified easily as all practices have been keeping records of their referrals for x ray examinations since the introduction of the new contract in April 1990 . |
| 5 | ‘ Others would have been left out if more players had been fit . |
| 6 | If you had been making the movie on film , the term cut would have been taken literally because each piece of cine film is physically cut and spliced onto the next . |
| 7 | More recently , studies of modern objects by archaeologists working in the sub-discipline of ethno-archaeology have sought to provide ‘ general and testable ’ laws of stylistic behaviour , strongly influenced by an extreme and exquisitely inappropriate form of positivism which took hold of the discipline in the 1960s , and appears to have been retained long after most other social sciences threw off its shackles ( e.g. Binford 1972 ; 1978 ; Gould and Schiffer eds 1981 , see Hodder 1982a and b for a critique ) . |
| 8 | Sound production and hearing in the Bottle-nosed dolphin had been studied more than those of any other cetacean . |
| 9 | Ken Neil won the competition on ‘ how many ways to use an egg ’ and , after a few games of bingo , the 50 members enjoyed browsing around the Thrift Shop which had been opened specially because many can not get there on a Wednesday morning . |
| 10 | I 've been called worse than that round here . |
| 11 | Various circumstances have been indicated above where such judicial construction or evaluation may arise . |
| 12 | This is what happens in the cases of textbook transmission that I referred to earlier : the teacher is required only to put into operation ideas which have already been realized as materials and is given no guidance in the evaluation of the validity of the principles on which the materials have been designed even when these principles are clear to the textbook writers themselves . |