Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although clearance under s138 is advisable , it is not essential to the operation of s135 , though some tax inspectors seem to assume that where clearance has not been obtained the anti-avoidance provision in s137 will automatically apply to deny capital gains tax deferral . |
| 2 | Rupert Bear is not only the world 's tallest hot air balloon and a leading children 's favourite since 1920 , he has just been appointed the National Trust 's young ‘ green ’ spokesman , or should one say spokesbear . |
| 3 | And the unique project has just been given the Royal seal of approval . |
| 4 | This criticism is forcefully made by Connolly , in the course of a discussion of structuralist theories , of which he takes Althusser s to be a prime example : One of the two complaints aired in this passage has already been discussed the incredulous observation that we can not view people as role-bearers who lead complicated lives in modern industrial societies and simultaneously regard them as determined . |
| 5 | ‘ My target has always been to bring the English title to Ewood Park , and nothing has happened to change that . ’ |
| 6 | Philip Gould of the Shadow Communications Agency has also been spotted at John Smith 's press conferences , which perhaps explains why Smith has still been wearing the red rose . |
| 7 | If the l.e.d. does not light , it has probably been inserted the wrong way round in the circuit — reverse its leads and try again . |
| 8 | It has good beaches , dramatic scenery and has even been given the royal nod . |
| 9 | One largely unforeseen consequence of rural housing policies has therefore been to increase the relative deprivation of low-paid rural workers ( and their newly married offspring ) . |
| 10 | Though when confidential information has actually been misused the applicable remedies are damages and an account of profits . |
| 11 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 12 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 13 | Like the good gossip he was , he had merely been marshalling the various elements of his anecdote to their best advantage . |
| 14 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 15 | More particularly , and because Vietnam had already been accorded the key position in Southeast Asia , ‘ Soviet domination of the potential power of Eurasia , whether achieved by armed aggression or by political and subversive means , would be strategically and politically unacceptable to the US ’ . |
| 16 | Yet the large majority of our teenagers said they had not been taught the practical realities of avoiding AIDS until they were at least 15 . |
| 17 | In small intestinal mucosa homogenates from patients who had not been treated the increased basal adenylate cyclase activity , reported also by others . |
| 18 | Handicapped people were simply those who had not been given the right tool kit . |
| 19 | Myeloski knew that Duncan had not been told the whole truth . |
| 20 | I 've just been doing the wrong question . |
| 21 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 22 | The limits of what had formerly been considered the proper role of the state had changed . |
| 23 | Yanto laughed again as did Sheila , who had also been watching the old man 's antics . |
| 24 | She glanced at her left hand as if she 'd forgotten the fact , and was instantly ashamed to find herself wishing she had n't been wearing the showy diamond solitaire . |
| 25 | A member of the group had been bothered had n't been given the right advice for some years . |
| 26 | The plan had allegedly been to bomb the main parade stand at the celebrations of Armed Forces Day on June 1 at La Coruña , and then to blame the incident on the Basque separatist organization ETA [ see below ] and to organize a military coup in the aftermath . |
| 27 | After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago . |
| 28 | In 1912 Eleanor Barton , a spokeswoman for the WCG ( albeit herself middle class ) , voiced the opinion that ‘ women suffer a great deal through their husbands ’ sensuality , and that is more evident amongst working people than other classes , simply because the conditions of life lend themselves to that sort of thing , and they have not been taught the proper uses of their bodies ' . |
| 29 | This is where the swans have been spending the regatta — at Egham just off the M25 in Surrey — it 's just been made the national swan sanctuary and has around 100 birds at any one time . |
| 30 | John Hill 's son says he 's not been given the full facts about what went wrong . |