Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 2 | The results in Table 2 show that phosphorylcholine treatments have been successfully applied to a wide range of biomaterials . |
| 3 | What has happened is that all of the tiresome lags in adjustment of activity to changes in monetary policy which used to worry macroeconomists have been dramatically foreshortened by the introduction of the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 4 | Isotope studies have been very helpful in studying the reactions of molecular oxygen with metal atoms or halogen atoms . |
| 5 | The association with a traditional barn incorporating porches has been skilfully exploited in order to broaden the width of the building at its centre so that an enclosed entrance porch and a generous ‘ dog-leg ’ staircase , giving access to the first floor , could be included on one side , while the equivalent projection on the west side houses an oriel window serving the dining-room which gives a commanding view over the Cherwell Valley . |
| 6 | During the year the Nikkei Average index had failed to rise above the 26,000 mark , compared with some 39,000 at the end of 1989 , and operating revenues had been down by 23 per cent during the six months to September . |
| 7 | Mr Leng said : ‘ The ability to receive dividends has been largely exhausted and the cash generated from the sale will be re-directed into our mainstream activities . ’ |
| 8 | Telephone services had been severely disrupted as the employees of Entel , the state telecommunications corporation , demonstrated against low pay and the threat of job losses due to Entel 's imminent privatization . |
| 9 | Society relies on science and makes substantial investment in it , not least from you the taxpayer , in the trust that claimed discoveries have been thoroughly and carefully researched . |
| 10 | Import of needed chemicals has been drastically cut ; Building Societies are refusing loans . |
| 11 | But the computer power required to turn all those dots and squiggles you call your handwriting into meaningful computer data has meant that most pen based computers have been incredibly expensive . |
| 12 | Where many import requests were combined in one project , CACEX negotiated a ‘ national content ’ proportion for the project as a whole , leaving the enterprise to decide which imports were vital and which replaceable , CACEX licences have been much more effective in controlling imports than the high tariffs , which in practice affected only about 6 per cent by value of total imports . |
| 13 | Although breechloading weapons had been generally adopted , the small-bore rifle , the machine-gun , and the quick-firing fieldgun had not yet altered military thinking ; they had only increased the range at which fighting would take place . |
| 14 | The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality . |
| 15 | Stating that the criteria for evaluating of public enterprises had been " designed more to ensure the success of the [ privatization ] operation rather than its profitability " , the commission claimed that state companies had been deliberately undervalued by between F8,300 million and F19,600 million . |
| 16 | Spending levels had been already set by democratically agreed initiatives ( such as Proposition 98 , which guaranteed that 40.3 per cent of state outlays be spent on schools ) , federal rules and court decisions . |
| 17 | The natural decline in the Kurau and Melibur fields has been temporarily arrested by successful infill drilling programmes which will be extended into late 1992 . |
| 18 | Pitot tubes have been most widely used in air , where they can measure speeds from about 1 m s -1 upwards . |
| 19 | As I have altered the way I teach mathematics , I have found pupils have been more highly motivated and have demonstrated skills I had not suspected they possessed . |
| 20 | Nineteenth century ‘ scientific racism ’ , with its discrete , hierarchical and inherited categories has been significantly challenged , even if not eliminated , from popular consciousness . |
| 21 | The content and learning strategies have been widely different . |
| 22 | The extent of these learning skills has been ingeniously studied for individual bees by Randolf Menzel in Berlin over the past two decades , and he has been able to clarify the role of many regions of the bee 's head ganglion . |
| 23 | A practical consequence of this relationship has been that from the late nineteenth century onwards managerially and technically trained personnel have been well represented on the boards of major German companies . |
| 24 | Learning theories have been much more important in positivist theorising about the acquisition of criminal tendencies . |
| 25 | Until Livingstone , various Right-On pet publishing and campaigning projects had been largely confined to tedious discussion documents and papers wrangled over at interminable meetings . |
| 26 | Erm so that 's a a whole of responses to this , I think we need to be far more clear in our opposition to this , I think it 's a very dangerous situation it 's one that 's happening across the country , we 're not the only sufferers and I think consortia have been very dangerous things from the beginning , and are leading inextricably to the merger that we we put before us as a proposal tonight , and I think we really should be quite strenuous in our position to it . |
| 27 | The growing weakness of local government in terms of making decisions has been more than counterbalanced by the increasing weight of government departments and the influence of civil servants . |
| 28 | ‘ I think lawyers have been too much looking from the law outwards rather than as a client looking at the law from the outside . |
| 29 | Sniffy was reasonably pleased to see them as the Goad men had been about to wreak vengeance on him for his revelations about the prison release dates being changed . |
| 30 | Some years earlier a train carrying pilgrims had been so seriously held up that its journey had taken twenty-four hours rather than seven or eight . |