Example sentences of "[adj] have [adv] been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , apart from the pioneering Ipswich project and Glasgow 's Kent Road Cabinet Works scheme , elsewhere in Britain little has yet been done to promote , or to try to demonstrate , the advantages of re-using redundant factories as dwellings . |
| 2 | But there was no haste about it : apart from that reorganisation and one major disposal , the fertiliser business , little has yet been done . |
| 3 | Neither has since been substantiated . |
| 4 | Each has already been touched on in passing , but something more needs to be said . |
| 5 | The splendid lustreware dish shown in Figure 6.1 has already been referred to . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , that has already been done and more simply . |
| 7 | I hope you 'll pick out what 's got to come from the East Midlands National airport , can I remind you that a list of that has already been made and passed by this council when there was not a Conservative majority and that had on it about seventy traffic calming schemes bottlenecks 'll be done all over this county which in themselves save accidents and save lives . |
| 8 | A further feature , implicit in much that has already been said , is the emphasis given by the staff to ‘ openness ’ and ‘ accessibility . ’ |
| 9 | That has already been increased to fou fourteen hundred er you when you 're making your recommendation may or may not come up with a recommendation for a somewhat larger settlement . |
| 10 | More specifically , Bock argues , syntactic alternatives are employed in order to place lexical information , that has already been retrieved , earlier in an utterance than lexical information which has not been retrieved . |
| 11 | That has already been agreed , and it will be in place by the end of next year . |
| 12 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 13 | Accounts by the first space-travelling visitors to the planet say that they found even the rocks and plants coming after them , but that has since been shown to have been normal travelogue exaggeration . |
| 14 | The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers . |
| 15 | That has also been progressed as concurrently as possible with the greenbelt local plan . |
| 16 | In science , for example , the earth science component ( attainment targets 9 and 16 , with aspects of attainment targets 5 , 6 , 7 and 8 ) includes much that has in the past been described as geography , while the materials component ( ATs 6–8 ) includes a great deal that has conventionally been regarded as technology . |
| 17 | Chapter 5 ( " Word Play in Action " ) promises at least a look at the socio-linguistic context of jokes , with particular emphasis on , and analysis of , real joke-capping sessions ; and Chiaro is to be commended for tackling an interesting aspect of joke-telling , in relation to discourse analysis , that has generally been neglected in book-length studies . |
| 18 | ‘ We appealed to have the contribution lowered and that has just been rejected so I 'm going to have to meet with my solicitor about that . |
| 19 | It seems to me that certain people in F1 can get away with anything they want and that has just been demonstrated here today . ’ |
| 20 | It is the large farm , with its abundant land and capital and modern machinery , that has invariably been perceived as capable of greater yields . |
| 21 | Er that all of that has actually been quantified in financial terms to be expressed against the simple value of the gains that you 're talking about . |
| 22 | Now that has never been denied by the leader of that council , although he keeps on , it is not Thamesdown 's policy . |
| 23 | That has never been seen as a constituent of self regulation , and I doubt whether any government would be willing to divert so many responsibilities already assigned to other existing bodies ( for example , the Medical Research Council and the Committee on Safety of Medicines ) — better qualified to carry them out — and concentrate them in the GMC alone under the sole control of the profession . |
| 24 | First recordings , too , can offer a freshness of discovery that is unique ; one thinks here of an unforgettable record by Heifetz of the Glazunov Violin concerto , made while the composer was still alive , that has never been surpassed since . |
| 25 | Now if it could be said that God in Christ took on specifically ‘ male humanity ’ , then women would be outside the scheme of salvation — and that has never been suggested . |
| 26 | I first came across her in a marriage hymn in Songs of Praise , which I still feel is the best that has ever been composed for a Christian wedding . |
| 27 | A spokesman for the UK Offshore Operators ' Association said : ‘ Superficially , the reduction to 50pc sounds good , but the tax is tied in with a lot of allowances , including exploration and appraisal , and that has all been abolished , and that is going to have a devastating effect of exploration and appraisal . ’ |
| 28 | Now that has all been sunk without trace . |
| 29 | I think the most attractive feature of being a pluralist is the independence it gives and that has certainly been borne out in my experience . |
| 30 | Reports I read in the national press suggest that retail sales are not improving , and that has certainly been borne out by our experience in Scotland over the last few weeks . |