Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting times for outpatient appointments have been collected prospectively in 10 outpatient pain clinics ( eight in Scotland and two in the Northern Region Health Authority ) over the past three years . |
| 2 | The books here have been collected entirely at random , as has been explained , but it is interesting to see that the arrival of the new media is reflected in some of them quite significantly . |
| 3 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |
| 4 | ‘ In the past five years quoted companies in America have been questioned increasingly about equal opportunities , policies towards South Africa , purification of water supplies , product liability in overseas markets and so on , ’ Davies says . |
| 5 | ‘ Fortunately we have been investing heavily in new plant and equipment , so we have been able to respond quickly to this rapid demand growth . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Ormerod added : ‘ I have been contacted personally by five or six towns in Scotland who would like to follow our example so there is a tremendous activity on that front at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | The practical limits on what can be achieved by laws have been illustrated repeatedly in recent years in the United Kingdom in connection with trade union legislation . |
| 8 | Boss Richard Purdey blames higher interest charges and falling sales in the price-conscious South East , where cider drinkers have been tempted away by cheaper newcomers like Bulmers ' Scrumpy Jack and Taunton 's Brody . |
| 9 | Doubts have been raised both on ethical and scientific grounds . |
| 10 | This was in any case already known from the fact that statistically significant ear differences in reaction time or accuracy of report have been observed even with monaural stimulus presentation ( for a bibliography see Henry , 1979 ) . |
| 11 | One particularly interesting case involves the so-called B I and B II conformations which have been observed crystallographically within B-DNA oligomers ( 1,2 ) . |
| 12 | Despite continued inflation such small increases in remuneration have been conceded only after many years of negotiation . |
| 13 | Some are still being bought and sold and , according to Charly Herscovici , prices have been rising slowly since 1967 , the year Magritte died . |
| 14 | Reporters have been ringing there since eight this morning . |
| 15 | Three Westinghouse designed PWRs have been built there since 1974 and a fourth will be running by 1985 . |
| 16 | Sera taken before and after transplantation have been tested retrospectively for anti-HC Ab in 12 patients . |
| 17 | But many have been chased away by local anglers and cars have been vandalised to deter poachers . |
| 18 | Sugar protons have been assigned unambiguously from J- coupling experiments . |
| 19 | of phone boxes now work and that phone call charges have been cut faster in this country than in any other country , thanks to the Government 's privatisation policy ? |
| 20 | How many goals have been given away with faulty back passes ? |
| 21 | Countries where educational difficulties over the last decade have been caused mainly by economic problems related to the burden of debt service and the effects of stabilization and adjustment policies designed to cope with them . |
| 22 | Most have been applied mainly to stationary axisymmetric space-times . |
| 23 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 24 | Convincing indications have been obtained both by human observation and animal experiments that emotional stress during pregnancy in the maternal subjects was associated with disorder ranging from emotional instability and slower reaction times to Mongolism and schizophrenia in their offspring . |
| 25 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 26 | The Revenue treat the separation as likely to be permanent if the parties have been living apart for one year ( Pinson on Revenue Law , 17th edn , para 38 – 04 ) . |
| 27 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 28 | The central plains of China have been farmed continuously for thousands of years and you begin to wonder how they have stayed fertile . |
| 29 | It is worth taking a brief look at McLuhan himself ( 1962 ; 1964 ; 1967 ) , partly because his ideas have been adopted explicitly by some writers on popular music but also because in the period of his greatest fame ( the mid- and late 1960s ) some of these ideas sediment Ed themselves into the common assumptions of quite widely , if usually implicitly , held views on culture and technology . |
| 30 | Peterborough have been looking increasingly like first division fodder but today it was Birmingham who were left scrabbling around for crumbs and there were n't too many of them . |