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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Pitot tubes have been most widely used in air , where they can measure speeds from about 1 m s -1 upwards . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The content and learning strategies have been widely different . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Learning theories have been much more important in positivist theorising about the acquisition of criminal tendencies . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I think lawyers have been too much looking from the law outwards rather than as a client looking at the law from the outside . |
| 16 | Children 's helplines — like the hugely successful NSPCC child protection line , awaken the public to the continuing horror — and to the fact that child victims are tomorrow 's adult survivors , whose darkly tormenting secrets have been dangerously suppressed . |
| 17 | Could my Noble Friend er not agree that in fact grant maintained schools have been very successful , not only in raising academic standards in helping parents , but in actually improving the fabric of the buildings |
| 18 | He says we have to say parents have been very sensible , they appreciate there 's a slighltly increased risk in the community . |
| 19 | MICROBETTER and Airflow Communications have been compulsorily wound up by court order under the Insolvency Act at the request of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 20 | Lick and stick stamps have been around since the 1840s , but by the turn of the century it 's thought self-adhesives will be the norm . |
| 21 | Because of the national need for minerals , planning authorities have been strongly advised by the DoE to pay attention to economic considerations : ‘ a fundamental concern of planning policy must be to ensure a free flow of mineral products at economic cost . ’ |