Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In particular , establishing a close and sustained relationship between money and nominal income or prices has been especially elusive . |
| 4 | There have been cases , fortunately rare , where children have been indecently assaulted at school by parent helpers . |
| 5 | Where services have been jointly planned it is easier to maintain them . |
| 6 | The performance of groups as decision-takers or problem-solvers has been very mixed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We have found in the past that visitors have been most appreciative of the efforts made to inform them and have also been most complimentary on what they have seen . |
| 10 | Psychologists are concerned that refugees have been mentally scarred by what they saw in Sarajevo . |
| 11 | Although it is common knowledge that dogs have been extensively employed in times of war , most people imagine that the cat has never been exploited in this way . |
| 12 | More importantly , there is the possibility that ideas have been simply misunderstood in their transmission from one cultural context to another . |
| 13 | One of these is that stocks have been only modestly run down compared with previous recessions ; another is the boost to government spending from the Gulf war . |
| 14 | Every so often senior level people must go to files to check that things have been correctly , you need to continue to do it , , Action Divisional Quality Managers . |
| 15 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 16 | Furthermore , they would point to the fact that downturns have been relatively temporary and have always been followed by a return to high levels of expenditure . |
| 17 | It had been recognized that Liberals had been more adept at handling the press because they were more ready to stoop to newspaper practices , as Sandars had reported in 1909 : |
| 18 | Management was , however , not satisfied that decisions had been really ‘ pushed down ’ into the high-performance teams , and was concerned that production pressures had overridden their concern with group autonomy . |
| 19 | It now transpires that mothers have been right all along . |
| 20 | There is little doubt that doctors have been very successful in establishing high status , protection from lay criticism and favourable terms on which to define and monopolise work tasks . |
| 21 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 22 | This meant that discharges had been less diluted . |
| 23 | The first took place on 10 December and reportedly some 15,000 women took part , although numbers have been grossly inflated by the local press . |
| 24 | A distinction was drawn between arbitrators and quasi-arbitrators in Panamena Europea Navigacion ( Compania Limitada ) v Frederick Leyland & Co Ltd ( J Russell & Co ) [ 1947 ] AC 428 , where the shipowners ' surveyor was to certify that repairs had been satisfactorily carried out . |
| 25 | In social science , this has meant that women have been virtually ignored , except as they related to men , and that the male has been seen as the norm . |
| 26 | Prices of the Kanga range of dresses and accessories have been dramatically reduced by up to 50 per cent . |
| 27 | The cycloaddition reactions of SNS+ with alkynes and nitriles have been thoroughly investigated and these ‘ reverse electron demand ’ cycloaddition reactions would fit well into elementary organic chemistry courses . |
| 28 | Gabriel saw at once that a bell-shaped shift of her own design was being wrongly displayed , while Rose saw to her fury that a whole line of trousers and tabards had been wrongly priced . |
| 29 | So what happens if a purchaser claims that he wishes to acquire only the basic wordprocessing part of the sophisticated package , perhaps because he or she wishes the output to be compatible with a machine on which all the bells and whistles have been legitimately installed ? |
| 30 | These 15 champions and contenders have been deliberately chosen to cover all eras of the modern game . |