Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [been] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This web of relationships has been called the role-set . |
| 2 | But the court 's discretion under this rule only arises if the applicant has sought a declaration , an injunction or damages ; and even if one of these remedies has been claimed the court may , in cases raising complex factual issues , refuse to exercise the discretion in the applicant 's favour on the basis that it would be better if the case were started afresh by writ . |
| 3 | Once the special character combinations had been replaced the file was iteratively refined . |
| 4 | Charlemagne thought that the Byzantine emperors had been denied the Roman empire , which had been conferred on him instead ( 800 ) , because they had shown the pride of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon , not least in allowing images of themselves to be idolatrously venerated . |
| 5 | When all the books had been read the local reader lost interest . |
| 6 | But the scale of the tragedy exposed by Michael Buerk and his BBC camera crew , and the response it provoked in the no-bullshit , energetic , passionately caring rock musician Bob Geldof meant that old-world attitudes towards the plight of helpless peoples have been given the biggest jolt since the anti-slavery campaigns of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | First , the Velikovskians have been given the chance to make a superficially plausible claim that there is some kind of ‘ orthodox-science ’ vendetta against them and against their master' : they have been able to portray themselves as persecuted martyrs . |
| 8 | Many , if not most , good teachers are suffering from fatigue and innovation stress ; almost all teachers in state schools are profoundly resentful at the way that they and their schools have been made the scapegoats for the ills of society . |
| 9 | Thirty-two acres of the old Swanage quarries have been designated the Townsend Nature Reserve by the Dorset Naturalists ' Trust . |
| 10 | In the past week any number of interested parties have been granted the 30 second television sound bite in order to voice an opinion or two about the way English should be taught in our schools . |
| 11 | And the worst branches have been given the , the , the stiffer targets to get them up to scratch . |
| 12 | LAURENCEKIRK , Turriff and East Wemyss Branches have been voted the best in Scotland — and the best in Britain — by Royal Bank customers . |
| 13 | THE RISE and rise of Tranmere Rovers has been given the Saint 's blessing . |
| 14 | A woman who has shivered through two winters and still faced large gas bills has been told the wrong meter was being read . |
| 15 | Parents have been promised the right to stay in hospital with their sick children at all times . |
| 16 | Parents have been promised the right to stay in hospital with their sick children at all times . |
| 17 | In one market , though , western companies have been denied the walk-over they expected : newspapers . |
| 18 | To ensure confidentiality of information sources , companies have been given the following tags . |
| 19 | Three years later her efforts have not gone unrewarded : both companies have been awarded the Small Firms Merit Award for Research and Technology ( SMART ) by the Department of Trade and Industry and the charity , Research in Cancer Immunology , has built up a capital base of £35,000 . |
| 20 | If the potatoes have been peeled the cooking water can be used for sauces or soups . |
| 21 | Until 1988 it was known as the Archbishop of Canterbury 's Certificate , but as it is now open to Roman Catholics has been renamed the Archbishops ' Certificate ( ACertCM ) . |
| 22 | To this view in recent years has been added the opinion that great benefits would be attached to stabilising Britain 's currency by linking it to the Deutschmark . |
| 23 | Most pilots have been shown the effect of gross over-ruddering during their basic training . |
| 24 | WORK has started to demolish the flats in Weycombe Road , Haslemere , which over the years have been named the Barracks because of their appearance . |
| 25 | The former England cricketers have been shown the door at Old Trafford just 24 hours after the departure of manager Alan Ormrod . |
| 26 | * Technical note : like last week to ensure a fair contest , all extracts have been given the same epistolary format that Bragg used in A Time To Dance . |
| 27 | The demonstrations came temporarily to an end after a personal appeal by Gorbachev on 26 February , but a report that two Azerbaijanis had been killed the previous week led to an anti-Armenian riot on 28–29 February in the oil town of Sumgait in which 32 people were killed and 197 were injured , including more than 100 police officers . |
| 28 | After some initial problems had been overcome the Garratts were outstandingly successful , running on all gauges from 2 feet to 5 feet 6 inches on gradients up to 1 in 20 or more , usually at modest speeds on heavily curved and graded routes , but capable of 75–80 m.p.h. on the Algerian expresses which were headed by probably the fastest articulated locomotives ( 4–6–2+2–6–4 ) ever built . |
| 29 | When the basic concepts have been established the assumption of certainty will be removed . |
| 30 | In all of the cells for which lipid compositional asymmetries have been described the negatively charged phospholipids are predominantly located in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane , while the zwitterionic phospholipids , containing the phosphorylcholine headgroup , are found in the outer leaflet . |