Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PULSARS that are members of binary systems in globular clusters are all rapidly rotating , and it is assumed that they have been spun up by accretion from binary companions . |
| 2 | South Korean boats fishing for tuna have been singled out for blame . |
| 3 | Government by minority is usually bad government ; in no truly democratic country could a disaster like the poll tax have been pushed through in defiance of public opinion , wasting billions of pounds and causing misery to millions of people . |
| 4 | The Socialists have been plunged back into gloom . |
| 5 | The tapestries were in remarkably good condition when found but have been sent out for restoration several times this century and final work on the last two will be finished next June . |
| 6 | Draft specifications for general SVQs in this area have been sent out for consultation , and a seminar was held to discuss them at the end of October . |
| 7 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 8 | Some of these files contain sections of program instructions ( for example , LIB ) which have been split off for convenience . |
| 9 | George White of Irvine , California-based Corollary says ‘ the Symmetry 2000 machines are not PC-like enough to integrate NT simply , unlike the others which have been built up from PC architecture . ’ |
| 10 | For many reasons they often lack the superficial selfconfidence of men , especially if they have been tied up by domesticity for years . |
| 11 | Aid trucks have been stopped from reaching Muslim areas there for a month by the Bosnian Croats who control the roads ; 1.3m people have been cut off from aid . |
| 12 | ‘ Experience in the bus industry has shown that white collar jobs have been cut by between 25–30pc and this would be repeated under privatisation of British Rail . ’ |
| 13 | In Soviet eyes , these Leninist-Clausewitzian precepts have been born out by experience . |
| 14 | Larger particles can not pass through until they have been chewed down to size . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's true this is the first time all but one of the World Cup downhills have been called off before Christmas and , with the Madonna slalom cancelled , that 's unique . ’ |
| 16 | The popular ‘ explanation ’ for these pitiful remains is that the hedgehogs have been run over by motor cars . |
| 17 | Even tin — imagine , just imagine , my dear and most esteemed Advocate , one of those medical illustrations , those écorché figures showing the skeins of muscle , the ropes of veins , in three dimensions , and then transmuted into metal , so that the tissues and channels and ducts and gristle ’ — the speaker 's hands traced intricate forms in the air in his morbid enthusiasm — ‘ look as if they have been made out of silver wire . ’ |
| 18 | This is because the length of the production cycle and the rhythm of the work in agriculture continue to be governed by the seasons of the year except in those branches of the industry which have been turned over to factory farming methods . |
| 19 | This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis . |
| 20 | A COMPANY has been formed to run two sawmills which have been bought out by management from the previous owners . |
| 21 | A petrol station assistant and her friend have been held up at knifepoint . |
| 22 | At the same time , if the soil is one of those obviously dry , gritty or chalky ones , from which the minerals plants need as part of their food — potassium , magnesium , nitrogen , etc. — have been washed out by rain , mix in slow-release fertilizers . |
| 23 | In all three of these novels the ‘ crimes ’ are those committed by basically good people who , through no real fault of their own ( other than the speculative instinct that is the mainstay of the capitalist system ) , have been caught up in bank failures for which they valiantly accept responsibility . |
| 24 | In Amazonia woolly monkeys and spider monkeys have been wiped out by over-hunting . |
| 25 | THE lights of the Empire State Building , the brightest jewel on the Manhattan skyline , have been switched off in retaliation for the jailing of Mrs Leona ‘ Queen Meanie ’ Helmsley , the self-styled Hotel Queen who failed to pay her million-dollar tax bill . |
| 26 | Right , so it will be sel self defeating , job creation in the urban areas will be self defeating and most of the , the reason why that was particularly important because historically most of the job creation schemes that governments have put in place with or without aid in developing countries is in the urban areas , you know , it 's the erm subsidized industrial plants , subsidized erm manu manufacturing industry , right so that the import substitution industries er have been set up with government and or aid money , foreign aid money and what Harrison Todaro was saying you 're wasting your time putting money into these big projects , right , because that only in that only in erm exaggerates th the migration problem because it really will increase people 's perception of er job possibilities in the urban area , they think there are jobs being created by government there , that will happen as another , as another stimulus er let me just draw a little diagram what Harrison Todaro was saying right we 've got time here such to say horizontal axis marks the lifespan of some representative migrant , then you 've got wages , wages in the agricultural area and wages in the urban area like let's just say that this is the wage rate in agriculture , right . |
| 27 | The bars have been set up on ground floor windows of Coatham Mill , a listed building . |
| 28 | The bars have been set up on ground floor windows of Coatham Mill , a listed building . |
| 29 | In several Asian and African countries , central banks have been set up by statute and are based on the model of the Bank of England . |
| 30 | However , relational DBMS require the user to be aware of the relations that have been set up in order to obtain information from the database , including keys and foreign keys used to join relations . |