Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southend pumps its sewage into the sea after primary treatment ; the beach at Westcliff has just been called unsuitable for swimming by the Heinz Good Beach Guide . |
| 2 | Portree has long been the commercial centre of the Isle of Skye . |
| 3 | Brooks has always been a strong influence in the stability market , evidenced by the long-term success of the Chariot . |
| 4 | Ferguson has already been linked with Spartak Moscow striker Valeri Karpin , who scored twice against Liverpool in their Cup Winners ' Cup first leg meeting . |
| 5 | The Soviet media noted that this meeting would also raise the issue of American military bases in the Philippines ‘ where it is supposed the Pentagon has already been able to site nuclear weapons secretly ’ . |
| 6 | Paradoxically , the Pentagon has never been as preoccupied as the State Department with the vagaries of General Noriega . |
| 7 | In Australia , where compensation claims have rocketed , RSI has even been nicknamed myalgic compensationitis . |
| 8 | However , Melanie has recently been bitten on the arm through diving between them to break up a fight . |
| 9 | Managers say Stoke Mandeville has simply been treating too many people . |
| 10 | The club Choice Brisa has always been one of our favourite hotels in Ibiza because it has everything that Club guests are looking for . |
| 11 | Throughout its three-hundred-year history the Church of Santa Maria has frequently been clothed in the wooden scaffolding that has allowed builders to attempt repairs after recent earthquakes . |
| 12 | John McCarthy has now been held hostage in Beirut for four years . |
| 13 | WP Has much been written as yet about that period ? |
| 14 | Robin Knox-Johnson has recently been honoured at the Silk Cut Awards for his seamanship in navigating his yacht Suhali one way across the Atlantic with nothing more than an astrolabe , a cross-staff and a lot of skill , and then back without a mast , engine , radio or compass after a battering in a series of storms . |
| 15 | A four-week pilot course in Cardiff has just been successfully completed . |
| 16 | Clough has already been approached privately and has confirmed he will accept the honour . |
| 17 | Since Mr Lawson has long been in favour of a stable exchange rate — and since industry has enthusiastically supported him , by expressing its enthusiasm for membership of the European Monetary System — it is ill-placed to argue against an increase in base rates at a time when sterling was threatening to fall below three marks , although the Confederation of British Industry has predictably grumbled that the rise was unnecessary . |
| 18 | ICI has long been a major supplier of surfactants , which are the active ingredient in detergents . |
| 19 | In Europe the EEC has already been strongly influenced , inter alia , by German and Dutch experience in its attempts to devise a common statute for employee participation within European companies . |
| 20 | In the one Eastern Europe country where the communists had some claim to popular legitimacy in the past , opposition spokesmen freely proclaim : ‘ Czechoslovakia has never been a communist country . |
| 21 | The manor house at Cosmeston has traditionally been called a castle , but it may not have been so extensively fortified as to warrant this name . |
| 22 | Henley has always been popular with visitors and societies , and in 1935 the British Racing Drivers ' Club came , arranged by Henley Member J.A . |
| 23 | CICS has traditionally been a tool for selling IBM mainframes . |
| 24 | Sister Marcus has finally been able to persuade him to go back to his club for a short rest . ’ |
| 25 | [ New ] Wolverton has now been modernised and , apart from a pleasant public library and some flower beds in the narrow residential streets , I do not think that the result is a great amelioration . |
| 26 | Also lacking through routes , as well as extending over seventy miles , Sussex has always been administered in two divisions with two county towns , of which the second , Lewes , was similar in size to Chichester , though less prosperous at this time in having far fewer affluent burgesses and no well-paid artificers . |
| 27 | It was no ordinary train , but one made up of fifty-seven carriages and hauled by no less than six locomotives that ran the fifty miles from London to the ‘ Daphne ’ of the Metropolis , as Brighton has sometimes been called ( to quote from The London Illustrated News of 7 December 1884 ) ; the journey took four and a half hours . |
| 28 | I believe that it is , she thought , I truly believe that it is my mind , for Isabel has always been so firm , so clearly in control . |
| 29 | The Forest of Dean has long been used as a dustbin . |
| 30 | Cambridgeshire has never been a county dominated by the nobility and gentry , for the degree of manorial fragmentation found there from Domesday Book onwards did not encourage the development of strong lordship . |