Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hands over to a young man with a toothless grin under a Coca-Cola hat who has been elected locally as the group 's ‘ popular educator ’ . |
| 2 | When the rabbits are removed from the net I always toss mine belly upwards to the ground so that the white hair on the underside makes the rabbit more visible in the darkness and I can then collect it later once the killing operation has been completed all along the net . |
| 3 | The importance of the matrimonial home has been recognised increasingly by the legislature . |
| 4 | This has been recognised periodically since the 17th century . |
| 5 | The cattle were either ‘ walked ’ down to the marshes direct from market or were brought to the nearest point by train : today they are transported by motor-lorries , and in recent years a rough road has been built right across the marshes to enable lorries to have direct access . |
| 6 | A curing oven , the size of a car garage , has been built specially for the project . |
| 7 | The strength of the stock market has been built entirely on the belief that the economy is about to start growing again at a time when inflation , earnings growth and interest rates are all low and falling , creating ideal conditions for a period of non-inflationary growth . |
| 8 | All that has been written above about the identification of the goodness of Christ 's teachings with the objectives of the creation of the Created God , can be applied equally to the teachings of the outstanding figures of all religions and of all religious history . |
| 9 | The dishwasher has been tucked away in the central island and is opposite the main sink , so dishes can be quickly rinsed and put out of sight . |
| 10 | Yes sir , er ever since P P G three was revised at the beginning of last year , I believe that the department has been moving steadily in the direction that indicated but certainly my brief here is quite specific . |
| 11 | The use of CAI in library instruction has been developed largely in the USA . |
| 12 | For those too old , lazy or hungover to face the 15-minute slog up this hill , a crag has been developed just outside the village right beside the D546 road to Sederon . |
| 13 | As Marx ( 1989 ) has discussed , the science of genetic engineering has been developed only since the 1940s and especially since the 1970s , but its origins really began with the efforts of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel who , in the mid-nineteenth century , established the principles of heredity . |
| 14 | The German Bund contract was strong from the outset , probably due to the previously unsatisfied demand for derivatives based on German bonds , but this has been strengthened considerably by the reunification of Germany and the resulting uncertainty about long term yields on German paper . |
| 15 | The involvement of several amino-acid receptor subtypes in the induction of LTP has been determined largely by the use of antagonists and is described in Box 2 . |
| 16 | Half my body has been cut away by the surgeon 's knife . |
| 17 | The word ‘ informatics ’ has been adopted rapidly throughout the world to describe the extensive range of disciplines associated with information technology and computing . |
| 18 | This species has been recorded primarily from the Caribbean and off Florida but Ljungman ( 1871 ) records it from the Josephina Bank , W. of Portugal in 210–410 m . |
| 19 | O. hamula has been recorded once from the south of Iceland , at a depth of 1874 m . |
| 20 | DISTRIBUTIONS : O. enopla veterna has been recorded only from the eastern Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay south to the Azores and Maderia , with a bathymetric range of 101–2245 m . |
| 21 | The influx coincides with a boom in the building sector , which has been spurred further by the need for housing for the refugees themselves . |
| 22 | A great deal of technological work has been done recently on the seasoning of wood , and safe accelerated drying schedules have been worked out for all kinds and dimensions of timber . |
| 23 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 24 | I thank the Minister for that answer and the confirmation that during the Government 's tenure the burden has been placed firmly on the shoulders of those who are least able to bear it . |
| 25 | The balance has been placed mostly in the Philippines and Indonesia . |
| 26 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 27 | Marginal plants , as their name implies , grow in the shallow water at the pool 's edge and can either be grown in planting baskets , like waterlilies , or in soil that has been placed directly on the marginal shelf . |
| 28 | In this example , whilst the market has to some extent been created by the regulators , the safety technology has been transferred mainly through the business activities of the safety consultants . |
| 29 | The vision of the completed composition will come into his mind and remain there , often unchanged , until it has been transferred directly onto the canvas by the artist 's brush . |
| 30 | Our understanding of the natural occurrence of Bt has been revised dramatically in the past few years . |