Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is particularly interested in the various features of childhood experiences that have been singled out by different theorists as the important determinants of adult personality : feeding regimes , toilet training , parental warmth , permissiveness and so on . |
| 2 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 3 | Reports that reached Amnesty International in September and October indicated that more than 2,000 people , many of them civilians , have been rounded up in southern cities and towns and transferred to unknown destinations . |
| 4 | And although there is less new material to play on your deck , second-hand shops are bulging with whole collections that have been turfed out by over-zealous digital converts . |
| 5 | Over the last eight years , 27,000 quotations , on average , have been sent in by outside contributors each year . |
| 6 | An estimated 100,000 Muslims have been cut off in eastern Bosnia since Serbs rebelled against the declaration of independence by Muslims and Croats . |
| 7 | Some of these recordings are now being used by the YCCC as evidence in the legal actions which they are taking out against the city and tannery , and some of the recordings have been played back to other community groups in similar situations but who have not developed their thinking to the extent of the YCCC . |
| 8 | In addition , a number of titles from Grades 1–4 have been made up into sturdy and convenient Readers Packs . |
| 9 | Selected titles in Grades 1–4 have been made up into sturdy Reader Packs , each containing a Reader , a Cassette , and Notes for the Parent/Teacher in English , Italian , Spanish , Arabic , Greek , Japanese , and Portuguese . |
| 10 | The Luttrell Psalter of 1338 illustrates a watermill complete with eel traps which look very much as if they have been made out of pliant willow stems . |
| 11 | Carrying on from this , there is a series of demonstrations , which have been planned out in easy stages and are therefore not too daunting . |
| 12 | Once people have been diagnosed as suffering from food poisoning , or have been struck down by viral infactions and diseases caused by doubtful practices , it is necessary for somebody to step in and legislate for the industry . |
| 13 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 14 | Environmental claims made for disposable nappies by their manufacturer , Proctor and Gamble , have been challenged by in independent survey commissioned by the Women 's Environmental Network ( WEN ) . |
| 15 | FOR some time now Wallingford engineering staff have been creeping around like concerned parents not wanting to disturb a sleeping child . |
| 16 | The wolves have been coming in from eastern Europe where they fled to escape hunters and human population expansion . |
| 17 | Elephants have been wiped out from Western and Northern Africa and are acutely endangered in Eastern Africa . |
| 18 | By that age , 51% have been promoted out of clerical work and for them it is merely a stepping-stone to a higher status non-manual job . |
| 19 | The ‘ deterrent ’ compounds of many rain-forest plants are used ( and have been fought over in major wars ) by humans to flavour food , e.g. cinnamon ( bark of Cinnamomum verum , Lauraceae ) , tea ( alkaloids and tannin of Camellia sinensis , Theaceae ) leaves , ginger ( rhizome of Zingiber officinale , Zingiberaceae ) and seeds such as nutmeg ( Myristica fragrans , Myristicaceae ) , cardamom ( Elettaria cardamomum , Zingiberaceae ) , and coffee ( Coffea arabica , Rubiaceae ) , and cloves ( flower buds of Syzygium aromaticum , Myrtaceae ) . |
| 20 | Merton is the second of two major ventures in the recruiting business which have been set up by entrepreneurial Michael Silverman . |
| 21 | Can we be assured that those regional representatives will reflect the political majority in those regions and will not simply be Government nominees , as we have seen in so many quangos and regional bodies that have been set up in recent years ? |
| 22 | Twenty phone lines have been set up in Aberconwy council 's offices to give advice to victims . |
| 23 | Similar associations have been set up in other counties , and already national competitions are staged . |
| 24 | Firms that have employed women in this way are , for example , the American concerns , the maquiladoras , that have been set up in northern Mexico near the US border . |
| 25 | Attempts to bolster the numbers of the endangered rufous hare wallaby in the Australian outback have been set back by domestic cats , which have killed 11 of the rare animals introduced to remote areas after a captive breeding programme . |
| 26 | ‘ Hitherto , their duties have been laid down in professional guidance . |
| 27 | Labour Councillors in Oxfordshire have been hitting back at Tory critics , who claim their actions have inflated Poll Tax figures . |
| 28 | Borders Regional Council also believes the new fishing dimension in the funding rules , given the fishing industry at Eyemouth , will strengthen the case for access to rural development to finance which they have been working on with Scottish Borders Enterprise for several years . |
| 29 | She would not dispute the fact that , by contrast , the Bundesbank is very good indeed at it , nor that since inflation-prone countries , such as France and Italy , joined the Deutschmark-dominated ERM their inflation rates have been forced down to German levels . |
| 30 | Salim can be designated a Kenya Asian : the name we give to those hard-working aliens who have been driven out of African countries , and who include the shopkeepers and merchants expropriated in Uganda by Amin . |