Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Consequently , the weft strands form the pattern on the face of the rug which , because they have been looped back around the warp strands , is clearly visible from both back and front .
2 Some bureaux have been invited in by the probation or education departments or by the prison governor .
3 THE glow of recognition will be sweet for those who have been singled out in the New Year Honours list .
4 The chemical industry 's efforts to secure insurance have been stepped up following the publication of a number of European directives suggesting a move towards much wider compulsory compensation for environmental damage .
5 ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring on beaches at Sellafield have been stepped up following the discovery of a grass-like substance .
6 The relevant texts have been deposited along with the presidency conclusions .
7 I have been blotted out from the world .
8 In all experiments on toroidal discharges neutrons have been observed in about the numbers to be expected if thermonuclear reactions were proceeding .
9 The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean .
10 On past experience , a 15 per cent devaluation could be expected to feed through at roughly 3 per cent a year for five years , and if this is repeated , it is still far too soon to say that inflationary expectations have been beaten out of the economy .
11 ( The PPP figures have been scaled up from the World Bank 's 1990 figures . )
12 The prosecution could not prove that he had encashed the giros because they are destroyed by the DSS twelve months after they have been received back from the clearing banks .
13 The new system , however , will be able to collect this tax and tax codes have been sent out by the tax office .
14 Last term 's fund-raising efforts have now raised £1,048 for the Leukaemia Research Fund — and two sacks of old postage stamps have been sent off to the Blue Peter Appeal in aid of Romanian children .
15 The second is a multi-media , schematic plan for a large advertiser , in which bursts of advertising have been blocked in as a basis for more precise , detailed planning at a later date .
16 As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States .
17 As in so many other fields of English law , the occasions on which recovery is permitted have been built up on a case by case basis .
18 Its twin ponds , of some 3.5 acres , have been built over by the ‘ bus station and local shops .
19 To accommodate the overflow , five more offices [ including a conference room ] have been built out on the workshop above the canteen and locker area .
20 Jetties , piers and hides have been built out into the reeds and these make ideal observation platforms .
21 Above the Magnesian Limestone event a number of reflections have been tied in with the sequence in Larne-2 and Newmill-l .
22 Once all the useful substances have been absorbed back into the tree , the end of the leaf stalk is closed off and the leaf dies and falls .
23 Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole .
24 The latest straws in the wind have been blown in by the bank 's disposal of its merchant banking arm , Charterhouse , last week for £235 million .
25 Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence .
26 From a purely philosophical point of view , teachers who have been cut off from the mainstream of educational activity should be helped to understand the dynamism that underlies a teacher 's personal development , the rapid changes in teaching situations and accepted methodologies , and also the changes which the target languages themselves are undergoing .
27 The A.896 road through the pass remains narrow with passing places , although a few parking spaces have been cut out of the verges to accommodate the many car owners who come to walk .
28 Since the monks were thrown out of Prague in 1954 , the cloisters of the monastery have been given over to a display of Czech illuminated manuscripts , printing techniques and modern literature .
29 Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ .
30 A ten-fold increase in fish farming is expected in Milford Haven , Pembrokeshire , over the next couple of years and , already , sizeable plots of land have been given over to the business .
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