Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument advanced by the anthropologist Clifford Geertz that human societies needed to be interpreted as texts has been especially influential on New Historicist thought . |
| 2 | Thus , though exposure-based treatments for phobias have been very successful ( for example , Marks , 1987 ) it is problematic as to what are the ‘ active ingredients for change ’ . |
| 3 | In some degree it is and a considerable number of products have been so harmonized . |
| 4 | ONLY a handful of artists have been sufficiently disturbed by the violence of war to capture it in their paintings : Goya certainly , Henry Moore in his air-raid shelter sketches , Picasso in his ‘ Guernica ’ perhaps , and , a step down , Paul Nash and Wyndham Lewis . |
| 5 | This adaptable group of birds has been very successful at exploiting food resources made available by humans . |
| 6 | Wherever I have observed transactions of this kind the balancing of accounts has been very carefully worked out . |
| 7 | Conflicts between the aspirations of individuals and the objectives of organizations have been well documented . |
| 8 | His change of tactics had been so cunningly disguised that she had n't realised what was happening . |
| 9 | The Soviet acquisition of computers has been relatively late … |
| 10 | Judges said the standard of entries had been exceptionally high for such an event , with many of the styles created being ‘ very innovative ’ . |
| 11 | So far the subject of fractals has been almost entirely descriptive . |
| 12 | Dental charges have also increased , the supply of spectacles has been entirely privatised , and new charges for dental checks and eyesight tests have been introduced . |
| 13 | Another milestone was passed in 1989/90 with more than 200,000 candidates registering for one or more modules for that year ; indeed the growth in the number of candidates has been so strong that it is likely to pass 225,000 this year , a rise of more than 15% . |
| 14 | Some of the worst losses are in Europe , where 17 per cent of soils have been seriously damaged by human activity , including mechanised farming and the fallout of acid rain . |
| 15 | An aggressive mob of youngsters had been closely dogging us for some time and , emboldened by our apparent failure to notice them or to quicken our pace , had begun throwing stones . |
| 16 | The mechanical system of microswitches had been completely replaced by a sealed ‘ cup ’ filled with mercury . |
| 17 | The importance of trusts has been greatly increased by the property Acts , because , as we have seen , it is only by means of the trusts that future interests in land can now be created ( see p. 87 ) . |
| 18 | There are other difficulties in making an order in such a case as this where a number of defendants have been equally involved in committing a crime , for the purpose of which a vehicle belonging to one of them has been used . |
| 19 | Public policy in a number of countries has been increasingly exercised since the mid-1970s by the problems of controlling state expenditure and increasing the efficiency of the state 's activities . |
| 20 | The position of countries has been violently altered . |
| 21 | Probes into the affairs of businessmen have been comparatively restrained , though a couple of government-appointed bank chiefs have retired . |
| 22 | The growth of imports has been over 11 per cent p.a. whereas export growth has only been 7.7 per cent p.a. , and if one considers exports and imports of goods other than oil products then the figures are 13 per cent p.a. import growth and 9 per cent p.a. export growth . |
| 23 | Histamine , another active substance first extracted from tissues ( see chapter 4 ) is not involved in the treatment of high blood pressure , but the study of receptors has been extremely fruitful in exploring its properties and discovering other drugs . |
| 24 | This attention to the total psychological development of the child is indeed a new phenomenon , in that earlier generations of parents have been chiefly preoccupied by the related themes of physical survival and moral growth , rather than with concepts of mental health or social and emotional adjustment . |
| 25 | Our family and friends have been so generous and both sets of parents have been especially good . |
| 26 | The site lies in a narrow valley on a severe slope and the courtyards and ranges of buildings have been carefully terraced to provide level areas . |
| 27 | A small team of workers have been busily harvesting bullrushes along the banks of the River Thames . |
| 28 | The calibre and standard of applications has been extremely high , in fact many students are already successful musicians in their own right , and I feel certain we can be assured of an exciting competition on the 22nd June . ’ |
| 29 | Although this synthesis of ideas has been rightly praised by subsequent historians and political commentators , Mosley came too realize during the later 1920s that such ideas could only partially solve Britain 's economic problems . |
| 30 | In 1974 , Lubans observed that ‘ instructional programmes in all types of libraries have been infrequently evaluated , their need and effect have not been measured except in a few isolated cases ’ . |