Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In districts where industrial crafts such as weaving or metalworking had been long established many families had a history of involvement in one or more of the local trades over several generations . |
| 2 | But is this so , even in a context , which we assume throughout , in which the parent or guardian has been fully informed and can make a rational decision ? |
| 3 | A new mood of optimism prevails at Grace Road , where fundraising has been successfully completed for an indoor cricket school , building work on which will start in September . |
| 4 | Where a temple , folly or grotto has been long abandoned and the roof has collapsed , bringing down the ceiling with it , a careful archaeological sift must be made through the debris . |
| 5 | ‘ The court shall not be bound to allow the appeal on the ground merely of misdirection , or of the improper admission or rejection of evidence , unless in the opinion of the court substantial wrong or miscarriage has been thereby occasioned . |
| 6 | All types of labour have been affected , but among arable workers , where mechanization has been most extensive , it has been disproportionately rapid . |
| 7 | She asked whether Joseph or Merlyn had been back earlier . |
| 8 | Each compact disc , cassette or record has been carefully chosen for the quality of its musical content and its recording . |
| 9 | In rural areas , especially where education has been hardest hit , they will be very hard to implement . |
| 10 | It is ironic that office building should have become the latest indirect victims of IRA terrorism through increased insurance premiums because , historically , the record of claims made by landlords or tenants has been extremely good . |
| 11 | For many years , urban finance has been a system with which very few practitioners or academics have been totally at ease and procedures governing local-government funding have become more convoluted in the 1980s . |
| 12 | And we 've already discovered in the last six months by discreet calls because of something we 've seen a bit funny in er er in er references that have come back or people have been down right honest and said , Sorry er this guy was last time I spoke with him . |
| 13 | In particular , establishing a close and sustained relationship between money and nominal income or prices has been especially elusive . |
| 14 | When the apostles wrote letters to their friends and colleagues they were always trying to pass on words of encouragement and the people who received these letters regarded them as precious sources of information , that is why many of the letters of Paul or John or Peter have been carefully guarded and handed down to ourselves . |
| 15 | In the Far East , where Britain had been so successful in defeating Communist terrorism , there was also growing instability . |
| 16 | JAM & LEWIS have been here before , and that 's why you ca n't trust 'em . |
| 17 | There have been cases , fortunately rare , where children have been indecently assaulted at school by parent helpers . |
| 18 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 19 | The alternative strategy is to inform patients whether a given method of diagnosis or treatment has been properly tested for efficacy so that they can make an informed choice . |
| 20 | Where services have been jointly planned it is easier to maintain them . |
| 21 | The performance of groups as decision-takers or problem-solvers has been very mixed . |
| 22 | But the only reason for that relatively peaceful state of affairs was , quite simply , that Lisa had been so busy that their paths had very rarely crossed . |
| 23 | It involves auditors in ensuring that funds have been expended in accordance with the terms by which such monies were appropriated , and that accounts have been properly prepared . |
| 24 | ( The facts that Rousseau never used the phrase ‘ noble savage ’ , and that Hobbes has been widely misinterpreted are irrelevant here , since my concern is not with the conceptions that two seminal thinkers actually articulated , but is rather with the stereotyped dichotomous conceptions of human nature and human society that have come to be associated with their names . ) |
| 25 | I know that Quins have been heavily criticised for fielding weak teams in league games , but it is an amateur sport and they are entitled to select whomsoever they want to see out there . |
| 26 | Here it 's obvious that money has been well spent on things that the animals actually need and use , with natural materials — and yet the public still gets a beautiful enclosure with good viewing facilities . ’ |
| 27 | Franca explained that Alison had been quite overcome by seeing the familiar school scene and the dancer , some of whom were professionals whom she knew . |
| 28 | iii Determine which areas of defence science and technology have been most penetrated by US sources , and attempt a preliminary categorisation of how , and in what areas that penetration has been most effective . |
| 29 | It did not seem to occur to him that Ramsey had been only eighteen months in an important job for which he was perfectly fitted . |
| 30 | The spectre of the great apostasy was always a threat to the more ideologically committed evangelicals but Terence O'Neill 's reforms , tepid and half-hearted as they were , raised the spectre to a power and status from which it threatened a far greater number of rural Presbyterians who saw the proposed changes as proof that Paisley had been right all along . |