Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been influenced here by the consideration that there are a number of discretionary trusts of long standing where tax avoidance was not the main motive in the settlor 's mind when he established the trust . |
| 2 | The differential impact of national and industry environmental forces upon the structure , process and outcomes of industrial relations have been examined empirically for the important metalworking industry across five countries . |
| 3 | Up to the commencement of school life , the major gratifications of the child in its interactions with others have been based largely on the overt and tacit approval of its parents its activities have been categorised in part according to the extent by which maternal and paternal love has waxed or waned as a result of them . |
| 4 | Although neither have been cited directly in the text , the philosophical ideas in this chapter have been heavily influenced by the work of Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn . |
| 5 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 6 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 7 | Skeletal remains of the earliest ( middle Carnian ) dinosaurs are rare and have been unearthed mostly from the fossiliferous Upper Triassic Ischigualasto Formation in northwestern Argentina . |
| 8 | It is a matter of regret , indeed something of a disgrace , that the spending plans have been announced today in the House when there is still no Scottish Select Committee to scrutinise what the Scottish Office is doing . |
| 9 | Not all farm workers have been affected equally by the new technology and certain aspects of working on the land have remained almost untouched by it . |
| 10 | In the UK , attempts to gain greater value for money have been related more to the present depressed economic climate than any need to provide for the wider accountability of government expenditure . |
| 11 | Stories have been rejected outright for the simple reason that they were ‘ too middle-class ’ , though one editor was constructive enough to suggest the writer might want to replace ballet and riding classes with swimming and gymnastics . |
| 12 | As a power in the land , America 's unions have been fading fast since the 1970s . |
| 13 | Similar pores have been observed also in the Z1 Carbonate of the Auk ( Brennand and van Veen 1975 ) and Claymore fields and in outcrops of Zechstein carbonates in the U.K. , where leaching is thought to have been caused by meteoric water during uplift and exposure ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 14 | We have n't that much experience of working with thirteen to fourteen year olds , so we have been collaborating closely with the teachers in devising what could go into each lecture . |
| 15 | So far as observation and knowledge of the world is concerned , the beliefs of the northern peoples have been dismissed equally by the Russian Orthodox Church and by the Communists as benighted superstition which imprisoned them mentally in a fear of evil spirits . |
| 16 | Prices and incomes policies have been justified historically on the grounds that , if successful , they serve directly to scale down the rates of increase of money wages and absolute prices while minimizing the rise in unemployment which a policy of demand restriction would entail . |
| 17 | Both the assets and the liabilities of the personal sector have been rising rapidly over the past ten years . |
| 18 | Several sample orders have been received particularly in the food and drink sector for products such as whisky , smoked salmon , chocolate , honey and shortbread . |
| 19 | There may be many theories , I have no doubt there are , why we have been sent here by the electorate in such strange proportions . |
| 20 | House prices have been adjusting downwards in the South-east for over a year . |
| 21 | There has been the feeling that the emotional outpourings she has drawn from her panellists have been inspired largely by the ‘ glamour ’ of television . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , specialist retailers like Dixons , an electricals chain , and niche shops like Tie Rack have been paring away at the department stores ' share of the high-street market . |
| 23 | Where prices were once held constant for five year periods , from 1976 onwards they have been revised annually on the basis of a five-year moving average of world market prices . |
| 24 | Seven XJ220 prototypes have been tested all over the world . |
| 25 | Various mutations in both oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes have been implicated heavily in the development of cancer . |
| 26 | REACTIVE oxygen species have been implicated both in the ageing process and in degenerative diseases , including arthritis and cancer . |
| 27 | The video and disk controllers and network interfaces have been integrated directly onto the motherboard . |
| 28 | Not , to be sure , the rapid changes in administrative structure , much though the results of sectorisation have been felt actually on the track . |
| 29 | As should have become clear , however , the main explanations within this shifting strand of thinking about politics and elites have been conducted primarily in the broad social and economic spheres : little attention has been given to the relations between states and people . |
| 30 | It is difficult to imagine that vertical sea cliffs 60 m ( 200 ft ) high , such as those at Hartland Point in Devon , have been cut entirely in the short Post-glacial period since the sea rose to its present level . |