Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks promising and has been used this season as a replacment for Wallace . |
| 2 | Rigglesford said Hawkins seemed depressed and had been crying . |
| 3 | Walker , who has turned 30 and has been at Tynecastle for over three years , will get his full international grounding at a time when goalkeeping problems abound for the national coach . |
| 4 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 5 | To summarize : if you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long period : |
| 6 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 7 | These offer special concessions to help you build your business and so create jobs to replace those that have been lost in mines and steelworks . |
| 8 | None of these Athenian Doric temples had carved metopes , but fine big relief-slabs from the Acropolis ( fig. 40 ) seem architectural and have been thought part of a continuous frieze from the Peisistratid temple , like that of the fifth-century Parthenon . |
| 9 | Listlessly she tossed about , unable to sleep , her mind reliving all that had been said tonight . |
| 10 | Certain critics like Hourcade and Allard , who did not realize the importance of what Picasso and Braque were doing , continued to take a broad view of Cubism as simply a return to a more sober , classical form of art , and thus to include within the movement a large number of artists who were not strictly speaking Cubist but had been slightly influenced by the style . |
| 11 | If Joyce 's energy had been concentrated in the forging of a language adequate to resolve all that had been , then that language , whatever else it had done , had achieved something for him . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , he realised that for political reasons it would be very difficult to do less than had been proposed in the Bill introduced in 1938 . |
| 13 | The company initially looked at the latter approach but the gateway is proving trickier than had been envisaged . |
| 14 | This draft response indicates which DTAC responses he has taken into account , and any member whose DTAC 's response has arrived late or has been omitted for some other reason can ensure that relevant points are not missed . |
| 15 | Italian law provides an interesting comparison because the inquisitorial model has been found wanting and has been recently altered to include adversarial elements . |
| 16 | Franco had been grateful to receive Italian planes in July and August , but he was not happy with the massive despatch of foot-soldiers , partly because Mussolini had the temerity to send more than had been agreed , and partly because the Duce insisted that they were not deployed as part of the Spanish Army , but formed an independent corps , with their own officers . |
| 17 | The story of the abrupt curtailment of life in Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent preservation of the city , not only its architecture but of the stuff of life itself — bread , utensils , eggs and bodies of humans , dogs and birds — through the protection of its coating of lava and ash is a well known one and has been fully and vividly recounted many times from the eye-witness story of Pliny himself to the present day . |
| 18 | There is no doubt that GP fund-holding has been proving successful and has been extending quite dramatically . |
| 19 | ‘ Michael Stein pleaded guilty and has been fined 2000 Barbados dollars . |
| 20 | admitting things like losing fifty billion quid on fluttering on foreign exchanges er Mr did or flittering away the north sea oil revenue in tax cuts for higher earners rather than er keeping that er once in a life time er bonus that this country had for the north sea oil and also you could mention the increased pension for but it did n't match billions that have been wasted on defence expenditure especially defence expenditure and especially the trident programme . |
| 21 | These treaties have not remained immutable but have been amended and supplemented by other treaties over the course of time . |
| 22 | increase agreement reached at the end of June , 1973 , and if it be right to regard this as having been reached under a kind of duress in the form of economic pressure , then what is said in Chitty on Contracts ( 24th ed. ) , para. 442 , to which both counsel referred me , is relevant , namely that a contract entered into under duress is voidable and not void |
| 23 | It would be most interesting to know if you can think of other potential members — our seminars have in the last year or two proved popular and have been extraordinarily cost effective . |
| 24 | The man accused of murdering an Open University lecturer was taken ill and has been absent for most of the second day of his trial . |
| 25 | And his aim in doing that would be to be res , fully restore all that had been his brother 's , for his brother 's family . |
| 26 | This exercise proved useful and has been repeated for the 1990/91 survey . |
| 27 | He explained that the description " dumb " had been omitted from the title to enable him to embrace within the scope of his review all deaf persons of distinction , whether they had continued dumb or had been enabled to articulate with any degree of facility . |
| 28 | There is another function of playing dead that has been depicted for centuries but which , until recently , was thought to be no more than a fictitious folk-tale . |
| 29 | Aircraft leaving Hendon include three that have been on show since 1972 : Hawker P.1127 XP831 will be placed on loan with the Science Museum and be displayed at South Kensington . |
| 30 | YOUNGSTERS in Northern Ireland smoke more , drink less and have been offered drugs more often than their British counterparts . |