Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adv prt] 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 | An earlier proposal was £8 , but that has been scaled down in the face of protest . |
| 3 | Jem has been beaten up in the street by three men . |
| 4 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | His Teflon-coating has been peeling off in the heat of the election campaign . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The station has been converted to burn confiscated marijuana which has been piling up in the warehouses of the local police forces . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 13 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 14 | The commander of UN troops in Bosnia , General Philippe Morillon , has been holed up in the town for the past week vowing not to leave until the safety of the inhabitants is assured . |
| 15 | TIM HARRIS , the national professional road-race champion who has been left out in the cold by British team sponsors , will be basking in Spanish sunshine next year , writes Graham Snowdon . |
| 16 | A trust has been set up in the wake of the tragic Pakistan International Airlines crash in the Himalaya in memory of outdoor pursuits lecturer Brian Rollins ( aged 40 ) , who was on board . |
| 17 | in UK The first nationally-organized car pooling scheme has been set up in the UK . |
| 18 | A new town has been set up in the heart of the Arara Indian reserve in Brazil 's Para state . |
| 19 | The IBM Corp share price has been floating around in the mid-$50s range as the memory of the ghastly fourth quarter begins to fade and odd bits of encouraging news come out — but the first quarter figures will soon begin to loom , and evidence that they will not be too jolly comes from BMC Software Inc , which warns of continuing weakness in international sales , and that customers are delaying purchases to study alternatives to mainframes , which are falling out of favour . |
| 20 | An individual who has been brought up in the abstractions of education and capital , and who is certain of obtaining daily necessities , cultivates a distance from these needs , and affects a taste based in the respect and desire for the abstract , distanced and formal . |
| 21 | the Business has been carried on in the ordinary and usual course and in the same manner ( including nature and scope ) as in the past and no unusual or abnormal contract differing from the ordinary contracts necessitated by the nature of its business has been entered into ; and |
| 22 | This evaluation will consider whether the school is now more effectively educating its students , and whether the change has been carried out in the most efficient way . |
| 23 | However , relatively little detailed exploration , especially drilling , has been carried out in the Lake District or Snowdonia . |
| 24 | Little mineral exploration has been carried out in the area which is poorly exposed except in coastal sections . |
| 25 | Much of the detailed analysis of the role of pressure groups in the policy-making process has been carried out in the United States . |
| 26 | How is it possible that what will prove to be an act of technological genocide has been carried out in the name of international law ? |
| 27 | In the past , most afforestation has been carried out in the uplands . |
| 28 | Throughout the 20th century biomedical and biological research on animals has been carried out in the University of Oxford . |
| 29 | Although little detailed research has been carried out in the UK on the effects of financial innovation and structural change upon the appropriate conduct of monetary control , it appears that there is a consensus opinion that the effects of financial change necessitate that monetary policy be conducted in a discretionary manner . |
| 30 | If you 'd been tossed around in the eddies down there I would n't have given much for your chances . ’ |