Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said people receiving the letter should not worry that they have been singled out for any genuine reason . |
| 2 | The location holds little promise , the time slot is unlikely , yet for over two years now the Sunday afternoon sessions at the Queens Club near Slough have been packed out with those who just ca n't stop after Saturday night . |
| 3 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 4 | Letters have been sent out to all parents asking that they keep their children away from other nurseries while tests are carried out . |
| 5 | This information is however available in a new and comprehensive range of brochures which have been sent out to most companies and other business organisations in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | The financial resources of Abbey National are exceptionally strong and our reserves have been built up over many years through a combination of prudence and innovation . |
| 7 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 8 | In fact , women have been speaking out on this issue for some time — among them Sue Cavanagh , co-author of a report on women 's loos published by the Women 's Design Service . |
| 9 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 10 | ‘ Despite this , planning applications for change of use to offices have been turned down on this ‘ residential ’ side of the road . ’ |
| 11 | For 15 years the basic state pension has been uprated in line with prices , not earnings ; as a result , the living standards of the poorest old people have been drifting down against those of people in work . |
| 12 | The potential dangers of the unthinking use of league tables , however , as currently presented have been pointed out by several authors . |
| 13 | Yet , like so many other Raj survivals , the marriage adverts have been mutated out of all recognition from their understated British originals . |
| 14 | Sometimes , like Gardencourt and possibly Poynton , they have been bought up by those who admire their antiquity , but have no connection with their land or history . |
| 15 | There are several ways in which assistance might be available to people who have been caught up in some of those unfortunate schemes . |
| 16 | Job shops have been set up on both sites , manned by trained staff . |
| 17 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 18 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 19 | Illegal arms and bomb factories have been set up in many parts of northern India to fuel the conflicts . |
| 20 | Duty rotas of guardians , who may be called upon at short notice , have been set up in many areas for this purpose . |
| 21 | Special police units have been set up in some areas , usually but not always staffed by women police officers . |
| 22 | Prior to 1974 these various activities took place in an uncoordinated manner , but , since then , budget committees have been set up in both houses . |
| 23 | The lessons are recorded so that the trainee 's performance can be reviewed and measured against criteria which have been set down for that skill . |
| 24 | ‘ You have been thrown over for another woman , that 's what I think . |
| 25 | Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale . |
| 26 | However , the conflict between modern farming practice and environmental conservation is by no means an irreconcilable one and , although entrenched positions have been taken up on both sides , there are now a few signs of a more sophisticated awareness of the Problems involved and a more constructive desire on the part of both farming organizations and the environmental lobby to overcome them . |
| 27 | He 's a gifted songwriter whose tunes have been taken up by some of the country 's top folk singers . |
| 28 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 29 | ‘ Children have been used up to this because we felt it showed a non-violent style . ’ |
| 30 | pennant 's Voyage to the Hebrides of 1772 carries an illustration by Moses Griffith which shows the castle almost separated from the land ; since then , the approaches have been consolidated around to either side of the eastern , landward façade . |