Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United States most of the great curriculum projects in the ‘ sixties had been subvented rather than controlled by government and in both countries university personnel had been heavily involved , bringing with them , in almost equal measure , a power of creative innovation and an unacceptable academic arrogance which ignores realities in schools and distrusts anything ‘ political ’ as a threat to ‘ academic freedom ’ . |
| 2 | Bradstone Moordale slates , from ECC Building Products have been specifically developed for the north of England . |
| 3 | Union attitudes have been powerfully conditioned by long and bitter experience . |
| 4 | Breath-taking Victoria arcades have been completely renovated and now contain quality food to fashion — all with designer flair . |
| 5 | The last words he had spoken to me on the subject of kitchen units had been really quite abusive . |
| 6 | It is the first time anyone connected with the Marcos pictures has been criminally charged . |
| 7 | In the highly centralised French system , Puren has recently documented how clear , repeated and detailed instructions on modern language teaching methods have been consistently flouted by teachers over the space of a century . |
| 8 | Heritage aspects have been carefully considered and attention is being given to preserving the station 's traditional appearance as much as possible . |
| 9 | Both the science and history departments were tending towards RBL approaches in support of a developing middle-school syllabus , and the issue of study skills had been recently debated in several forums across the school . |
| 10 | The preliminary conclusion must be that the general approach taken in the research projects has been clearly vindicated . |
| 11 | ‘ But in America , these guaranteed equity funds have been enormously successful in the past three or four years , and I see can see that happening in Britain too . ’ |
| 12 | In princely strongholds such as Jaipur , Udaipur , Jodhpur and Bharatpur , politicians of both ruling and opposition parties have been busily courting aristocratic support this year . |
| 13 | OLIVER Twist tales of hungry children being fed and clothed by North-East schools have been strongly denied by teachers . |
| 14 | The tenants ' rent books had been correctly marked up by her , but she had put different figures into the ledger and cash book . |
| 15 | The use of linear programming as an aid to decision making when allocating scarce investment funds has been widely advocated . |
| 16 | House plants are overturned — the green parts mysteriously missing — mauled pillows are strewn about and couch cushions have been systematically shredded . |
| 17 | By 1961 internal tariff barriers had been substantially reduced and quota restrictions on industrial products had been largely eliminated . |
| 18 | HIV and AIDS organisations have been effectively dehomosexualised : many devoted workers have been left feeling devalued and exploited . |
| 19 | In spite of these objections , there may be some truth in the statement that UK labour costs have been too high in recent years and that this has made UK industries less competitive in world markets . |
| 20 | While simple coral beads have been clinically successful , there is some uncertainty over the long-term stability of pure corals . |
| 21 | The good communications between the firm 's Queensferry and Ayr plants had been more important . |
| 22 | The Action Teams have been deliberately set up with a wide brief so that they can adapt to local needs without having to conform to a rigid pattern . |
| 23 | His public activity in industry affairs has been especially concerned with international publishing and copyright matters . |
| 24 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 25 | The concentrations of trace metals have been recently studied in saliva and gut secretions , but not in gastric juice , which contains appreciable concentrations of electrolyte cations . |
| 26 | Cyclic fluctuations in vole populations have been variously interpreted as the result of intrinsic or extrinsic factors by different workers . |
| 27 | The cotton weavers of Lancashire made a similar point in 1799 when claiming that piece rates had been more than halved since 1792 . |
| 28 | Midland Car Loans have been specially developed to put you on the road as quickly and simply as possible . |
| 29 | The human and mouse RB genes have been thoroughly characterized ( 1 , 2 ) . |
| 30 | The sale of the remaining rented houses to private or housing association landlords has been less successful . |