Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because so much more work has been done and so much more is known about the business way of accounting , having alternative methods leads to confusion . |
| 2 | It has been argued that very few electors usually read them and that many of the commitments made do not enjoy widespread support among voters , even among those voting for the parties that issued them . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it has been said that virtually all the extinctions of the last million years or so can be blamed , with fair confidence , on the intelligence ( or lack of it ) of Homo sapiens . |
| 4 | No method for the precise manipulation of the embryo in utero has been devised and so most experiments are carried out either in vitro or in an ectopic site in vivo , neither of which is likely to provide optimal conditions for normal differentiation and morphogenesis . |
| 5 | He said the figures , ‘ implied that everyone removed from a hospital waiting list has been treated when blatantly that is not the case . |
| 6 | Oxygen has been omitted because nearly all the oxygen in a planet resides in non-volatile oxides and silicates and it is extremely difficult to estimate how much of this oxygen has been liberated into more volatile forms and conversely how much oxygen originally in volatile forms has been lost by combination with various oxides and silicates . |
| 7 | It has been found that as little as 0.5 mg/1. will produce appreciable shade differences . |
| 8 | It has been estimated that as many as 10% of old people admitted to hospital are there as a direct result of drugs prescribed by their GP ( Age Concern , 1977 ) , and Phillipson ( 1982 ) suggests that much over-prescription of drugs is a conscious attempt to control the medical demands on the health service by older people . |
| 9 | It will have been observed that nearly all the cases in this chapter arising from industrial disputes have taken the form of actions against individual workers or trade union officials . |
| 10 | Nothing was left of the hundreds of thousands of pounds — perhaps as much as half the floating capital of Scotland — that had been invested and over half the colonists were dead of hunger or disease . |
| 11 | In fact , outside the Europe of the Six very little had been achieved and very little interest had been displayed in integration and cooperation beyond the all-European organisations that had been set up at the end of the previous decade . |
| 12 | By 1990 it had gone through the familiar process : what started as a compromising fudge had been rationalized as yet another creative act of policy , fitting in with its unique character to a harmonious pattern of public service broadcasting . |
| 13 | This principle , that within each diplomatic rank ( ambassador , minister-resident , etc. ) precedence should be decided merely by seniority , was to lead more than half a century later , by the international convention of 1818 , to a final solution of most of the issues on which for generations so many energies had been expended and so much ink spilt . |
| 14 | The inspector , however , found that any bonuses deriving from this design ‘ have been lost and also much of the experience and skill of the ‘ old Feltham ’ which coped well with a difficult borstal population' . |
| 15 | It is a relational database which is rather like a filing cabinet in which not only the dividers have been removed but also all pieces of paper without words on them . |
| 16 | Dozens of boards of governors sessions have been postponed because too few members have turned up . |
| 17 | It 's been suggested that around half those taking part in Toronto at the weekend have used drugs at some point in their careers . |
| 18 | Erm it 's been er it 's been suggested as well that in some extent it reflects the religious revival in Europe that that that that was taking place . |