Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The documents have been collected by an international team of scholars led by Professor Ian Budge , Essex University . |
| 2 | COMMUNITY leaders from both sides of the border have been invited to an ecumenical church service at Creggan in south Armagh today . |
| 3 | Parents have been invited to an open day at the Royal Opera House which includes a back-stage tour , as well as dance and make-up sessions . |
| 4 | For years , American X-ray astronomers have been pushing for an Advanced X-ray Astrophysics facility ( AXAF ) which would have better sensitivity and resolution of detail , than all other X-ray telescopes presently planned . |
| 5 | Welcome back : Large numbers of skeletons buried in a mass grave have been unearthed by an archaeological dig . |
| 6 | David Smith 's ‘ Cubi XXVII ’ , the celebrated work which used to stand by the museum 's entrance , and a second sculpture by the artist , have been placed on an awkward terrace above the Monitor Building . |
| 7 | Most decent councillors have been placed in an impossible position because of the failure of the Government 's housing and economic policies to deliver the affordable rural homes that are so desperately needed . |
| 8 | Ten prisoners have reportedly been released and two others , whose sentences have not expired , have been transferred to an undisclosed place of detention . |
| 9 | THREE British Telecom engineers have been sacked over an alleged 0898 cash-quiz fiddle . |
| 10 | FOREIGN links with Darlington have been strengthened following an international luncheon . |
| 11 | The client may need reassurance that the standards the hotel claims to offer have been scrutinised by an independent body . |
| 12 | Since then , many of the windows and doors have been blocked with an unsightly assortment of bricks , and the mill relegated to the storage of such diverse commodities as plastics and antiques . |
| 13 | Tumour-suppressor genes have been implicated in an increasing number of solid cancers , and some of these genes have subsequently been found to be inactivated in haematological malignancies . |
| 14 | For instance , the teeth on the famous supposedly Pre-Columbian crystal skull , said to be from Mexico ( fig. 8.7 ) , have been cut with an abrasive wheel . |
| 15 | More than a hundred and thirty people have been killed in an Iranian plane crash near Tehran . |
| 16 | Would my right hon. Friend care to come to the county town of Lancaster to see how outstandingly well our schools , under local management , are spending their money now that they have been freed from an extravagant county council which never had the right priorities and always deprived our schools of the money that they should have had ? |
| 17 | Official encouragement of the increased use of the language , promotion of a national literacy campaign and provision for the writing of dictionaries and grammars and the development of specialised terminologies for higher education , have been regarded as an important part of Tanzania 's search for a national identity and the enrichment of the lives of its citizens . |
| 18 | André Cluytens recorded Ravel 's orchestral works in the early 1960s and most of them , apart from his complete Daphnis et Chloë , have been packaged in an attractive set . |
| 19 | These MBA programmes have been developed on an open learning concept built around Henley 's successful distance learning materials . |
| 20 | The most successful placement programmes to date have been developed from an identifiable need and developed into an accessible package which is clearly targeted with a prescribed framework e.g. Women in Management , Transition from School to Work , Information Technology . |
| 21 | Harrison of Caldbeck , she was told , had upended him savagely after the young gentleman had sought an advantage by what would , in a common man , have been punished as an inadmissible move . |
| 22 | They have been injected with an insoluble luminous dye to help sell the fish . |
| 23 | Under the title ‘ Springboard ’ , their varying talents have been matched with an attractive mixture of classical and contemporary music . |
| 24 | Capital punishment for murder was abolished in 1969 and repeated attempts to reintroduce it have been defeated by an ever-increasing majority . |
| 25 | Trade creditors , including Western Digital Corp , Seagate Technology Inc , Microsoft Corp , IBM Corp , Conner Peripherals Inc and Quantum Corp , have been operating as an unofficial creditors ' committee and are expected to become members of the Official Committee . |
| 26 | CONCERTED efforts to improve health and safety have been rewarded with an accident-free period of 100 days at Courtaulds Packaging company Soplaril . |
| 27 | As you know , SCOTVEC and colleges have been engaged in an extensive development plan , the aim of which is to transform the approach to the Advanced Courses provision . |
| 28 | SCOTVEC and centres have been engaged in an extensive development plan , the aim of which is to explore the issues which arose from the Consultative Paper of February 1987 ( ‘ SCOTVEC Higher Education Provision ’ ) and which were detailed in the Policy Paper ( ‘ Advanced Courses Development Programme : A Policy Paper — March 1988 ’ ) . |
| 29 | So many good young dogs have been ruined at an early age by incompetent trainers . |
| 30 | And they have been renewed on an alarming scale since the crisis started . |