Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 2 | In recent years dismissals have been justified much more in terms of the need to rationalize the labour force in the face of external economic problems which are compounded by Japan 's ageing population . |
| 3 | For behind the public posturings , there 's no doubt that both of these gentlemen have been having more than a little local difficulty with their respective parties . |
| 4 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 5 | If , in the original solution , the functions f , g and M have been chosen such that the terms in ( 12.47 ) have already cancelled the terms and in S , then the new solution for M will be given by . |
| 6 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 7 | Both sets of data have been normalised such that the lowest value is equal to 1 . |
| 8 | The Republic of Colombia won its independence from Spain in 1819 although its borders have been redrawn several times since . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Books have been called many things in their time , but not ‘ lean and muscular ’ . |
| 11 | Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far . |
| 12 | Since then about ten new sites have been scheduled each week , and this could be seen as a deliberate blocking measure as it only takes place where the owner wants to do something with the site . |
| 13 | Since the 1950s parents have been accumulating more ( and always better ) consumer goods , domestic appliances , automobiles and luxuries . |
| 14 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 15 | No significant onshore placers are currently known but some offshore areas have been investigated such as the Mawddach estuary , near Dolgellau in North Wales , which was considered a prospect by RioFinex during the late 1960s . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 18 | If Barnes is this irreplaceable in the nation 's best club side it again raises the question of what England have been missing all these years . |
| 19 | What we 're , in effect what we 're saying is that for a a number of years the Communist Party has provided , has made that moral economy work i in a s and made it work very well because rents have been reduced more than the peasants would expect erm er interest rate is extremely low . |
| 20 | The process of management and the functions of management have been analysed many times in various ways by different writers , who have taken the view that : |
| 21 | MORE than 600 illegal nets have been confiscated this year from poachers who are stealing thousands of pounds worth of salmon from the River Foyle . |
| 22 | In ( b ) to date only certain shapes of inclusion have been considered such as spheres , ellipsoids , rods and discs . |
| 23 | It is as much as US companies have been spending each year to advertise cigarettes … |
| 24 | The increase will not be matched by dividend rises — too many companies have been paying more than they could afford over the past two years and need to repair their reserves and ratios — but 7 p.c. growth looks reasonable . |
| 25 | ‘ Hundreds of companies have been duped this way , ’ said a detective with the Northumbria Fraud Squad , which is investigating the Brandmakers ' case . |
| 26 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 27 | Successive new syntheses have been published both of the history of the party and of the revolution , and with each edition they have tended to become more detailed , more finely nuanced , more subtle . |
| 28 | In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain . |
| 29 | Provisions relating to ancient monuments have been amended several times , the latest being 1983 when the National Heritage Act was passed . |
| 30 | Job prospects for aspiring pilots have been dealt another blow this autumn . |