Example sentences of "[noun] have be [vb pp] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general link has been mentioned several times . |
| 2 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 3 | Apart from being broadcast on Belgian television , this interview has been shown several times to the mainly student audience of the association , but the text has never been published . |
| 4 | The Republic of Colombia won its independence from Spain in 1819 although its borders have been redrawn several times since . |
| 5 | Executive voices have been raised several octaves over the issue ( UX No 433 ) , and there does not appear to be any clear agreement yet on how COSE firms would level this playing field . |
| 6 | A security guard has been shot several times during a bungled armed robbery attempt outside a bank.The guard was shot in the leg by two men just after he arrived in a security van , but it seems the raiders escaped empty handed . |
| 7 | Rats have been sighted several times in the Hundens Lane area and Darlington Council 's environmental health department say all rubbish should be kept securely bundled and no scraps of food should be left . |
| 8 | Provisions relating to ancient monuments have been amended several times , the latest being 1983 when the National Heritage Act was passed . |
| 9 | ‘ Each two-person team has been given several overseas markets and told to get back as many packages as possible . |
| 10 | Although the fish has been hooked several times , no one has succeeded in landing it . |
| 11 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 12 | Nigel Kennedy has been promised several free pints when it reopens in November . |
| 13 | Stress has been mentioned several times already in this course without any attempt to define what the word means . |
| 14 | The Jewish cemetery in Berlin 's Weissensee district has been desecrated several times and groups armed with petrol bombs and rubber truncheons have attacked immigrant worker 's hostels , and known meeting places of the ‘ left ’ — bars like Café Westphal in Prenzlauer Berg and various squatted houses . |
| 15 | Interest rates have been reduced several times with a significant shift in economic policy giving priority to growth . |
| 16 | That significant marine action extends to quite high levels is well known.Wentworth ( 1938 ) has for instance described an example from the Hawaiian Islands , where a block of tuff weighing about 7 tons has been moved several feet fro its natural position at an elevation of 12m ( 40 ft ) on an exposed cliff . |
| 17 | The FBI has been summoned several times to tackle problems the local police could not handle . |
| 18 | He is a largely forgotten naturalist now but this book has been reprinted several times and would be worth finding in a library to start off an interest in deer in children . |
| 19 | The men had been gone several weeks , and when we appeared on the beach , the bear was probably expecting us to produce food . |
| 20 | The intensity of the water problem has been mentioned several times . |
| 21 | When the political dictatorships had been overthrown several alternative courses of action were open to the successor regimes . |
| 22 | Differences among accents of English have been mentioned several times in the course , and this is a subject that many students of English find interesting and wish to know more about . |
| 23 | The amounts as well as qualifying ages have been altered several times since 1986/87 , so any rebate would only apply to allowances that would have been due to you at the time . |
| 24 | He had received numerous death threats from Sendero Luminoso and from the Rodrigo Franco Commandos since being elected in 1986 and had escaped three assassination attempts , and his house had been bombed several times in 1989 . |
| 25 | Their design had been changed several times before they were finally erected . |