Example sentences of "[coord] have [adv] [been] " in BNC.

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1 As with large tracts of The Possessed this is in effect third-person narrative , recalling the notebook assurance that whether ‘ my ’ story is based on hard facts or has simply been made up , it is all ‘ true ’ .
2 This is only possible where there is a transnational capitalist class willing to deal with the TNCs when , for example , the comprador role may be too dangerous or has actually been abolished .
3 He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground .
4 As has been indicated for the parish church , it will be prudent to determine if a descriptive booklet is , or has ever been , available .
5 Yes but surely if you 're saying in combating Chinese collaborators , settling accounts with landlords and reducing rents and interest , the people have seized the land directly from the landlords thus realizing the principle of the land to the tiller where the mass movement has been thorough the land problem is being or has basically been solved .
6 Geometrical isomerism is sometimes , or has sometimes been called cis trans-isomerism .
7 If the colours are lighter near the surface , the chances are that it is either old or has genuinely been bleached by the sun .
8 An offence is regarded as flagrant where it is being , or has recently been , perpetrated , or the suspect is found in possession of incriminating materials .
9 Each team also includes a person who is currently , or has recently been , a carer to make sure that the carer 's perspective on needs and priorities remains constantly in focus .
10 A person is ‘ connected with a company ’ if he is , or has recently been , a director or an employee of the company in question .
11 There were no signs anywhere of Wolski 's background , of the fact that he spoke Polish or had once been Jewish , or of the God that had been present at his birth but on whom he had turned his back before the godlessness in a death camp called Sobibor .
12 Jaq , for his part , wondered whether he too was merely an iota , or had genuinely been promoted to become a moulder of destiny .
13 CONTACT GROUPS These are usually for people who have a particular social problem in common or have just been through a similar trauma , like divorce or bereavement .
14 She says : ‘ It is a very valuable function because it helps people who are unemployed or have just been made redundant to do something which is worthwhile .
15 A number of public sector pay awards have been treated leniently through supplementary estimates being granted , or have even been placed outside the limits .
16 It is not often that I receive ‘ fan'-letters , and I always acknowledge them unless they are impertinent , or have obviously been written by lunatics .
17 No principle is discernible , nor has any been suggested , to explain or justify the giving of corporate status to some but not to other government authorities .
18 Nor has much been done to attack the soft commissions ( payments in kind ) given to fund managers to attract their business .
19 Overall the event was a major success and has already been provisionally booked for the same venue year .
20 The results for one set of three questions on a recipe was in the GT4 reference test and has already been discussed in the previous chapter .
21 The guidance will bring together for the first time all the relevant existing guidance into one statement and has already been the subject of previous consultation in a green paper .
22 The problem here is an obvious one and has already been alluded to , namely how do we know how good an indicator is if we can not compare the phenomenon with the indicator ?
23 Erm , we have , as you would have seen , and has already been noted , erm , balances considerably higher than the seven million we 've previously set , at the , at the moment , and these will erm , be able to make provision if necessary , for police pay should happen to be higher than er , we are told than , than the one point five percent , which has something that people have raised with me , and erm , have said , that oh of course you lose grants if you do n't decide it now , but that is not in fact the case .
24 Smiths make instruments for civil and military aircraft , and has already been hit hard by cuts in defence spending .
25 He 'd apparently hit the central barrier and lost control , and has already been fined 250 pounds for driving without due care and attention .
26 It used to be the site of an old church , and has already been previously excavated .
27 The Examination Council came into being some erm nine months ago and has already been involved in quite a lot of activity , I mean particularly the erm problem of sixteen-plus examining , whether we should move from a system of erm O-levels and C S E , or to a combined system , Sixteen-plus Examination it would probably be called .
28 Novix has been available in the UK since early 1992 and has reportedly been picked up by Parliament , BP , Amerada Hess , GEC and British Telecom .
29 Although it has been argued that most of the ideas central to general systems theory are certainly valuable , they had been applied to it without formal knowledge of the theory ( Jennings , 1973 , p. 124 ) , nevertheless the theory has focused thinking and has probably been responsible for a more comprehensive view of many environmental situations .
30 He has been jailed for explosives offences in Ulster and has previously been denied a visa .
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