Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sample of 150 households has been monitored over two heating seasons and is accompanied by a larger sample in order to check for the representativeness of the more detailed data collected in the panel study . |
| 2 | Former Yorkshire Electricity chairman and chief executive Dr James has been appointed first-ever non-executive director of Tyneside consulting engineering group Merz & McLellan . |
| 3 | Windmill Fields and the Lymington Bottom triangle had been definitely listed as open space , and once landscaping work has been done both these areas will be handed over to the parish council for maintenance . |
| 4 | The spotted mare came from Billy Smart 's and jumps a flaming hoop suspended at five feet , the chestnut in the horsebox is an ex-hunter who once belonged to the Duke of Beaufort , this one I 'm holding has been placed twice round Badminton , and Hoomey 's — ’ |
| 5 | The core of the machine will be nCube 's self-contained chip ( equipped with DRAM and 40 communications channels ) , made by Hewlett-Packard Co in Oregon , based on a 3m-transistor processor which has been implemented under 0.6 micron , three-layer metal CMOS technology from VLSI Technology . |
| 6 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 7 | It is concentrated in dense masses around Cap Martin , but has been sighted over 130 kilometres away near Toulon . |
| 8 | Our role has been to put forward practical suggestions — and sometimes to rein in the larger ambitions of our partners . |
| 9 | The launch of the Space Shuttle , Columbia , has been aborted just three seconds before lift-off . |
| 10 | It has been made plain that Government policy on aid will be increasingly conditioned by the performance of recipient governments in terms of human rights and observance of democratic practices , and I wholly welcome that . |
| 11 | If a mistake has been made then new SPRs and SSRs should be generated as necessary to correctly define the status of the affected modules . |
| 12 | If a mistake has been made then new SPRs and SSRs should be generated as necessary to correctly define the status of the affected modules . |
| 13 | Biologists have developed a theoretical framework within which the evolution of virulence can be analysed , and it has been demonstrated experimentally that virulence can evolve in response to alternative modes of parasite transmission . |
| 14 | Moreover , even where it has been demonstrated that long tails are costly but are preferred by choosy females , resolving how such preferences have evolved is difficult , particularly if females gain no direct benefits from their choice of mating partners . |
| 15 | He was an engineer and erm he he was he made co , he worked on conveyers and things and then he changed his occupation became a civil servant and he worked at the Admiralty down on Templefields until it closed about ten years , cos my husband has been retired about five years now . |
| 16 | This debate , which essentially arises out of the Piper Alpha disaster , has been given even greater poignancy due to the reports that we have received of a major explosion at Grangemouth . |
| 17 | The attitudinal function has been given so much importance in past work on intonation that it will be discussed separately in this chapter , though it should eventually become clear that it overlaps considerably with the discourse function . |
| 18 | It is a pity but my father , Elfed , has been given very little credit in articles and books . |
| 19 | NORWICH CITY 'S leadership of the Premier League has been given more last rites than Eldorado , and they were fortunate not to come unstuck against El Tel . |
| 20 | The textile industry in particular has been experiencing very difficult trading conditions and is more susceptible than most to recession in the US economy . |
| 21 | Occasionally you stick to your guns which means that Andrew has been getting rather inconsistent messages : he ca n't anticipate the consequences of his undesirable actions since your reactions are not predictable . |
| 22 | The system , the first of its kind in the UK , has been devised over two years by a wide range of training bodies , including Scottish Enterprise , Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the Scottish Vocational Education Council . |
| 23 | Fred Thomson has been reading Home Sweet Home by Roy Ramsay . |
| 24 | She has been teaching approximately 10 hours a week including one session for children and one for the elderly . |
| 25 | Originally a 9-holer designed by Tom Dunn , Sheringham was extended to 18 holes in 1898 and , little changed over the years , it particularly suits the English ladies , it seems : their amateur championship has been played here several times , most recently in 1991 . |
| 26 | A memorial service will be held for Tracey … and the inquest into her death has been adjourned so further inqiries can be made . |
| 27 | But his work has been destroyed so many times in the rads that he 's now giving up . |
| 28 | Many people say that near Frankenhausen in Thuringia is a mountain in which Frederick Barbarossa may be found … he has been seen there many times . |
| 29 | The difficulty with many agrarian reform programmes has been achieving both social justice and economic growth . |
| 30 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |