Example sentences of "[adj] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most other efforts to air the issue in public have been suppressed . |
| 2 | Peak numbers are usually noted in September , when flocks totalling up to 1,600 have been noted in Chichester and Pagham Harbours and flocks of up to 200 have been seen elsewhere along the coast . |
| 3 | The group claims more than 150 monkeys like this have been experimented on at Oxford University . |
| 4 | For years articles like this have been heralding the ‘ impending ’ arrival of a new British Standard for plain clay roofing tiles : good news was just around the corner . |
| 5 | Others have lessons in offices and storerooms and sixth form classes like this have been increased from 10 to 18 . |
| 6 | Schemes like this have been operating at Blackbird Leys for years … this , the locals say , is an example of the real face of the estate . |
| 7 | Excellent examples of this have been related to me mainly about mothers-in-law and other relatives ! |
| 8 | Classification techniques such as this have been used to produce thematic maps of land-cover types , of rock types in semi-arid and arid regions and of the extent of urban areas . |
| 9 | Inventories such as this have been used in bulk by agricultural historians to show how varied were the regional farming practices of England long before the Agricultural Revolution . |
| 10 | Madam Deputy Speaker I re read in the newspapers today that there has been s some criticism er that the matters such as this have been taken on the floor of the house . |
| 11 | If a comparison programme of no formal intervention is chosen it is important to establish that the costs and consequences of this have been valued credibly . |
| 12 | The reasons for this have been discussed elsewhere . |
| 13 | There is evidence for forest clearing 11000 years BP in Taiwan and of agriculture between 14000 and 8000 BP in Thailand , and New Guinea by 9000 BP , though tools much older than this have been claimed for the island ; rice was being grown in Sulawesi by 6000 BP . |
| 14 | It is thought likely that more than this have been bred and not registered , simply used as guard dogs by the booming security industry in South Africa . |
| 15 | As far as the salaries are concerned the arguments on this have been set out in relation to item ( i ) in question 1 above . |
| 16 | Our various committees are aware of this situation and plans to rectify this have been set in motion . |
| 17 | All 67 have been blacklisted , and for entirely justifiable reasons . |
| 18 | More than half have been approved by ministers already . |
| 19 | More than half have been approved by ministers already . |
| 20 | Substantial flocks are also found between Pett Level and Rye Harbour in the autumn and particularly the winter , when up to 800 have been noted . |
| 21 | More than 800 have been sold since 1964 — equivalent to one every seven working days — with 84 per cent going for export , sixty per cent of the North American market . |
| 22 | Old problems of contacts breaking or the case deteriorating have been rectified on most models . |
| 23 | Waves up to 40 metres high have been recorded rushing inland , carving out valleys , stripping off deltas and wiping out hills . |
| 24 | Apart from such influxes up to c. 30 have been seen annually , with an average of about twelve . |
| 25 | Retarded development , disturbed patterns of behaviour , inability to form relationships or to be self-sufficient have been seen as resulting from disease or physiological abnormality . |
| 26 | Hydrocarbon exploration in overthrust belts is encouraged by these results because the highly disturbed and sometimes metamorphosed rocks of the near-surface have been shown to overlie extensive areas of flat-lying and relatively undisturbed strata , separated by a fundamental detachment zone which is commonly at a depth of only a few kilometres . |
| 27 | THE FRENCH have been shifting their money from the stock market into Paris property , according to Donnelle Higbee , who runs Hampton 's Paris office . |
| 28 | Instead of lyric participation in common cultural activity , the French have been numbed , divided and tranquillised by the cultural politics of bread and circuses . |
| 29 | The French have been accusing us of lack of co-operation lately — military co-operation , that is . |
| 30 | ‘ The French have been pressing Anglo-French union again [ 11 September ] . |