Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By 8am they have been joined by over 50 more , and at least 80 vehicles . |
| 6 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The salaries of senior directors have been rising by between 20 per cent and 30 per cent over the last year and the trend shows little sign of slowing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Letters have been sent out to all parents asking that they keep their children away from other nurseries while tests are carried out . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Over the last eight years , 27,000 quotations , on average , have been sent in by outside contributors each year . |
| 13 | Thanks to the generosity of staff in LASMO 's London offices , bags full of loose foreign coins — worth about £500 — have been sent off to two children 's charities . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 16 | An estimated 100,000 Muslims have been cut off in eastern Bosnia since Serbs rebelled against the declaration of independence by Muslims and Croats . |
| 17 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years . |
| 21 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Now various versions of Unix have been boiled down to two : one from the Open Systems Foundation , a consortium that includes IBM , Hewlett Packard and DEC , and one from Unix International , a consortium involving AT&T and Sun Microsystems . |
| 24 | In addition , a number of titles from Grades 1–4 have been made up into sturdy and convenient Readers Packs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Lanchester , who have been rained off in two matches this season , are at Ushaw Moor , while Sedgefield take on Tudhoe . |
| 28 | ‘ Despite this , planning applications for change of use to offices have been turned down on this ‘ residential ’ side of the road . ’ |
| 29 | Carrying on from this , there is a series of demonstrations , which have been planned out in easy stages and are therefore not too daunting . |
| 30 | 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 . |