Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those directors have since been ousted from the board . |
| 2 | ( These have since been tightened as a result of the events in June 1989 ) . |
| 3 | Some of the report 's recommendations have since been implemented by the Hong Kong authorities but AI continues to call for each asylum-seeker to receive legal advice at all stages of the process and to receive an oral hearing when appealing against refusal of refugee status . |
| 4 | Significant finds have since been made in the Urals and South Africa . |
| 5 | The papers have since been published as a collection by ESRC ( ‘ Global Restructuring , Local Response' ed Philip Cooke , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | Many of the goats described in the 30 or so scientific studies that have since been published on the phenomenon ( the earliest in 1904 ) can be traced to those bred and cared for by Mayberry . |
| 7 | The two have since been combined in a single volume . |
| 8 | It seems that the Rub' al Khali desert of south-eastern Arabia occupies a structural offshoot of the Persian Gulf in which marine sands accumulated in the later parts of the Tertiary period and have since been reworked by the wind . |
| 9 | But when Wedgwoods moved to Barlaston before the Second World War , the place became a steel works , and all the old buildings and kilns have since been demolished by the British Steel Corporation . |
| 10 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 11 | The leaves have since been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum , New York . |
| 12 | Commercial agencies for the establishment of surrogacy have since been outlawed by the 1985 Surrogacy Arrangements Act ( M. D. A. Freeman in Current Legal Problems , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | ENGINEERS at Philips in Britain have secretly been working on a flat screen television for several years , while hotly denying the fact . |
| 14 | Knuckle down to any jobs you 've been promising all and sundry to do , but have secretly been avoiding like the plague . |
| 15 | These have mostly been calculated from the speed and force needed to embed swords in wooden hulled ships and boats ; a speed of 57.6 miles per hour ( 92.7 kilometres per hour ) has been calculated from a penetration of 22 inches . |
| 16 | The data have mostly been provided by the organisations themselves . |
| 17 | The selectors knew they were playing with fire when they decided to arrange a couple of club fixtures and they have duly been consumed in a conflagration of their own making . |
| 18 | The best known coral fisheries are those which have long been conducted in the warm waters of the west Mediterranean between North Africa and Italy , and around Malaysia and Japan . |
| 19 | Two particular contracts relating to goods have long been recognised by the law , one of bailment and one of sale . |
| 20 | Whilst ‘ the elderly ’ have long been recognized as a distinct social category , ever-stricter stratification by age has emerged since industrialization ( Thomas 1976 ; Quadragno 1982 ) . |
| 21 | Both countries have long been embroiled in a row over the Hungarian minority in northern and western Romania . |
| 22 | Works of the 18th-century Enlightenment have long been collected by the Library to add to the existing collections : this year the purchase of the second edition of Adam Smith 's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ( London , 1778 ) enabled the Library to achieve a complete representation of editions of this most important work issued during the lifetime of the author . |
| 23 | Modern artists have long been fascinated with the comic strip : MoMA 's ‘ High and Low ’ show a while back provided a primer on the subject . |
| 24 | Not only has a trend towards the internalisation of negotiating activity been apparent in Britain but also in those countries such as the United States and Japan where enterprise level bargaining has predominated labour relations issues have long been handled by the managements of individual undertakings themselves . |
| 25 | " Material obstacles to this " , he told the tsar , " have long been discerned in the inadequacies of your judicial structure and judicial procedure " . |
| 26 | Returning to the fate of the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts , there are ways to help it to survive , even if they have long been forgotten during the years of subordination to its well-cushioned Soviet existence . |
| 27 | However , the exciting days of last February and March when the Stars were challenging with Chelmsford for promotion have long been forgotten by the home fans . |
| 28 | The Albanians in Yugoslavia are not a minority population , but the third largest national group in the country ; there are more than 3 million of them , but their national rights have long been abolished by the Yugoslavian Government . |
| 29 | It claimed that ‘ The pooling of coal and steel production will immediately provide for the establishment of common bases for economic development as a first step in the federation of Europe , and will change the destinies of those regions which have long been devoted to the munitions of war , of which they have been the most constant victims ’ . |
| 30 | These have long been associated with the arch-priest of uniformitarianism , Charles Lyell , who used them as the frontispiece of his great proselytising work " Principles of Geology " . |