Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two projects in the area of personal and social development have been completed within the last year : |
| 2 | Sixteen houses have been completed in the first phase of a re-development scheme which will eventually remove all the 1960s-built flats . |
| 3 | In common with many bass amplification manufacturers , Trace Elliot have been trying over the last few years to build powerful , yet compact bass gear to ease the strain on the poor bass player 's back . |
| 4 | Is there any evidence that such limits have been recognised in the last 12 years ? |
| 5 | In the twenties , both in England and in America , we have a situation in which the infant and child mortality rates are fast declining , mainly owing to new advances in medical knowledge ; at the same time , the world 's values have been shaken by the First World War , writers and journalists have both more freedom and more inclination than ever before to discuss religion from an agnostic point of view , and the vengeful God of heaven and hell no longer impresses in quite the old way . |
| 6 | And now these fears have been compounded by a sixth profitability study by accountants Spicer & Oppenheim whose gloomy conclusions may well prolong the sector 's agonies further . |
| 7 | Although modelled growth rates for carbonate concretions imply that formation may take 10 5 years , these concretions are found in sediments that have been deposited in the last 50 years . |
| 8 | More controversial shots of a spoof wedding ceremony and a lesbian couple kissing , both featuring bare breasts , have been placed in the second of two rooms housing the exhibition . |
| 9 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
| 10 | Of particular interest , given that rates of divorce have been rising over the last two decades , is whether relatives commonly provide housing for people who have separated from a married or cohabiting partner . |
| 11 | Because I am delighted to report that education standards in Wales have been rising over the last few years following the introduction of the national curriculum and our other reforms . |
| 12 | And , I mean , reluctantly we have to accept that this is not an ideal world , but I mean , just now , we were actually looking at the number of food hygiene inspections that have been done over the last few months , which have increased enormously , it just means , I mean it emphasises the fact that food has changed , food , and the number of places that are actually serving food now I mean , the corner shop does sandwiches . |
| 13 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 14 | If you 've got any sensitivities at all do n't look at them please , but if you wish to , they 'll give you an indication of the kind of thing that your fire fighters have been facing over the last three or four months . |
| 15 | More importantly it has also been the experience of the many students on whom the approach , exercises and problems have been piloted over the last four years . |
| 16 | The Census Dissemination Unit and the Census Microdata Unit have been funded in the first instance for five years . |
| 17 | In our Galaxy , only four have been seen during the last thousand years : in 1006 , 1054 , 1572 and 1604 , but there is no knowing when we will see another . |
| 18 | More than 55 females , from babies to elderly women , have been killed during the first year of the Uprising ; shot dead with live ammunition , rubber and plastic bullets ; suffocated with tear gas and some have been beaten to death . |
| 19 | Fifty-five people have been killed in the last twelve years . |
| 20 | But the essence of your answer to the questions that have been asked over the last twenty minutes or so , is we have n't done it that way . |
| 21 | In my opinion , and for the reasons I have tried to formulate , such a refusal would not be consonant with relevant legal principles as they have developed and have been applied in the last 50 years . |
| 22 | A survey by the Worcestershire Nature Conservation Trust has concluded that 97 per cent of the county 's wildflower meadows have been destroyed in the last 40 years . |
| 23 | Er one has only to walk down the road here for example at Strensall but equally , the first point I made would be to contradict perhaps what Mr and Mr have said er because the the difference in employment distribution is a reflection of the pop planning policies that have been followed over the last ten years . |
| 24 | To encourage mobility , two separate initiatives , both covered by EC Directives , have been developed over the last few years . |
| 25 | Our joint ventures with LVMH continue to progress well thanks to strong personal and commercial relationships which have been developed over the last five years . |
| 26 | With the increasing array of modern pharmaceuticals which have been developed in the last forty years or so , the concept of treatment with opposites has once more dwarfed the concept of treatment with similars which has never been accepted by the medical establishment . |
| 27 | Also , many new methods for analysing maps have been developed in the last decade and the UK is a world leader in this field of spatial statistics . |
| 28 | Both methods have been used here , principally the first , but some interesting comparisons have been made with the second . |
| 29 | The good news is that plans have been made for a third building . |
| 30 | No matter what great advances have been made in the last 12–18 months , there is still an awful lot of blood being shed in the country . |