Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] [adj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 2 | I do not claim to be comprehensive in what follows , rather my aim has been to assess some of the main features of kin support in the past which have particular relevance to the central theme of this book — how important are duty , obligation and responsibility in motivating the support which people give to their relatives ? |
| 3 | Beyond the surface marked ‘ bow shock ’ interplanetary space has been swept clean of the planetary field by the solar wind . |
| 4 | John Prescot has been given one of the key posts in the new shadow cabinet . |
| 5 | The interim committee , which was established by a resolution of the board of governors in 1974 , has been given more of the responsibilities of the full board since its smaller number of members allows it to work more effectively . |
| 6 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 7 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 8 | A flotilla of surfers and canoes has been riding one of the year 's biggest Severn Bores . |
| 9 | THE Royal Bank has been voted one of the top mortgage lenders of the year by What Mortgage magazine . |
| 10 | The purpose of this paper has been to review some of the legal issues that organisations need to address when operating in an electronic documentation environment . |
| 11 | Graham Tennant , 81 , has been writing poetry for a hobby since he was 10 and his poem Looking Back taking a humorous look at the Biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah has been judged one of the top ten funniest poems in a national competition judged by comedian Ronnie Corbett . |
| 12 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 13 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |
| 14 | But as Ian McGeechan himself said : ‘ He has been playing some of the best rugby of his life . ’ |
| 15 | Ironically , it has been one of the board 's own employees , Dr Ross Hesketh , who has been questioning many of the rather bland assurances on what has happened to British plutonium from the civil programme . |
| 16 | Ali Shoukeir has been found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of |
| 17 | The cumulative effect has been to remove much of the archaeological evidence for settlement from the slopes and uplands , leaving behind only the remnants of flint implements and pottery and the deepest post holes . |
| 18 | However , the cost of achieving this has been to remove some of the advantages of forward contracts as well . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that the effect of GATT over most of the postwar years has been to remove some of the protection afforded to national markets . |
| 20 | He 'd been working one of the axle springs free on an old Cortina when the jack had given way . |
| 21 | Opioid use is the top category , and individuals in this group may also have been using any of the drugs in the other five categories . |
| 22 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 23 | The people of England should have been made aware of the significance of the match . |
| 24 | By this stage each party contacted should have been made aware of the firm 's professional relationship with the client and the confidentiality and sensitivity of any client information discussed . |
| 25 | Had butterflies been colour-blind and bees without a delicate sense of smell , man would have been denied some of the greatest delights that the natural world has to offer . |
| 26 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 27 | ‘ And I said Mark Robins is a local lad who cost nothing and should have been given more of a chance . |
| 28 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 29 | Alex 's strange position in the production must have been making all of the usual understudy agonies even worse . |
| 30 | ( FCA ) of , having been found guilty of misconduct contrary to Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he in Cardiff between 26 March 1991 and 4 February 1992 purported to exercise a lien over the papers of his former client when he was not entitled to do so and having been guilty of a breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( ii ) in that he in Cardiff between 22 May 1991 and 4 February 1992 failed to deal properly and promptly with professional enquiries from Chartered Accountants in respect of the affairs of his former client and having been found guilty of a breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he in Cardiff between 17 December 1991 and 4 February 1992 failed to provide information required of him by the Investigation Committee on 17 December 1991 in exercise of its powers under Bye-law 80(a) concerning the affairs of his former client was reprimanded , fined £750 and ordered to pay £l , 000 by way of costs . |