Example sentences of "[conj] have been [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 11 of the Act authorises police officers to arrest anyone they suspect of being or having been involved in terrorist activity . |
| 2 | Loyalty , service , and duty were exactly the values which the ‘ boy labour ’ reformers sought to impress upon young workers , and as many of the reformers were also active , or had been active in one or more of the youth groups , they were sympathetic to the objectives of the Scout movement . |
| 3 | Article 2 , which sets out the general areas of workers ' rights , simply spells out many rights that already exist in law , or have been present in well-unionised work places for years before Thatcherism . |
| 4 | This , in theory , saves lives on the other side — a concern that has been rare in recent wars , but seems to carry some weight in this one . |
| 5 | After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making . |
| 6 | I 'm the fifth generation of a family that has been involved in the theatre … they 've built theatres , run companies , been actors , married actresses . |
| 7 | If you doubt this , talk to any private oil company that has been involved in the North Sea . |
| 8 | This will enable Mr Damant to calculate a better figure of maintainable earnings than has been possible in the past . |
| 9 | I have a bid to make for additional assistance , and I suggest that there are three means by which we could help people without work more than has been possible in the past . |
| 10 | It was characterized by a determined display of party unity , although this was tempered with a greater degree of realism than had been apparent in 1988 . |
| 11 | We explained all this in detail in the Report ( see chapters 2 to 5 this book ) , and in fact our Report demanded far more teaching about language than had been customary in most classrooms during previous decades . |
| 12 | For secular courts , the consequence was a revival of inquest proceedings on a much more extended scale than had been common in the eleventh century , causing a demand for documentary proof that chanceries and monastic scriptoria were hard pressed to satisfy . |
| 13 | When I was approached over Westland , it was by some of the banks and institutions that had been involved in the John Brown affair . |
| 14 | The second defendant also drove negligently and collided with the vehicles that had been involved in the first accident , killing the plaintiff . |
| 15 | But all addressed the themes that had been crucial in other traditions . |
| 16 | Elsewhere he referred to it as ‘ developing socialism ’ , differentiating it from the ‘ developed socialism ’ that was supposed to have been constructed in the Brezhnev era and still more so from the utopian vision of a society rapidly advancing towards full communism that had been current in the Khrushchev years . |
| 17 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
| 18 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 19 | But two of the mediating factors that had been present in his triumphant Pennies From Heaven and Singing Detective had gone : no independent director or challenging producer . |
| 20 | In one of his experiments , lie detectors were connected to two house plants that had been present in a room at the time of a murder . |
| 21 | He spelt out a clear conception of force as the cause of acceleration rather than motion , a conception that had been present in a somewhat confused way in the writings of Galileo and Kepler . |
| 22 | Even four successive nights seemed an almost too generous slice of happiness , and on that fourth night , with the waning moonlight glittering on the sea and the crickets noisy in the hayfield on the other side of the wall , she gazed sadly up at him and asked the question that had been uppermost in their minds for some time . |
| 23 | That unhinging extended back at least as far as the Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , a crisis which allowed Franklin Roosevelt finally to break free from the congressional restraints on executive action that had been operative in the inter war period . |
| 24 | As to the wider dissemination of culture , the few cells that had been active in this respect seemed to equate success with the regular dispatch of newspapers and made no personal contacts to follow this up . |
| 25 | It was woven to represent a field that had been horse-ploughed in the old narrow stetches . |
| 26 | Despite all of these changes , the leaders of the change effort consciously supported and maintained those values and ways of work that had been productive in the past , such as joint consultation with the unions . |
| 27 | Ridiculously , a song that had been popular in her childhood flooded her mind . |
| 28 | Several devices that have been successful in modern surgery include hip replacements , contact and intraocular lenses , heart pacemakers and so on . |
| 29 | In proposing hypotheses , people are guided by knowledge of past failures , by analogies with theories that have been successful in handling related subject matters ; Peirce 's ‘ affinity ’ between mind and nature is an allusion to something which is required to explain the speed of the growth of knowledge ; and testing theories is an intentional activity which appeals to general cognitive aims — to describe reality , anticipate experience , solve problems , produce elegant and simple formalisms , etc . |
| 30 | There is good news for smaller companies , with government support for both the network schemes that have been successful in other parts of Europe , and one-stop shops . |