Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Union attitudes have been powerfully conditioned by long and bitter experience . |
| 2 | Breath-taking Victoria arcades have been completely renovated and now contain quality food to fashion — all with designer flair . |
| 3 | It is the first time anyone connected with the Marcos pictures has been criminally charged . |
| 4 | The good communications between the firm 's Queensferry and Ayr plants had been more important . |
| 5 | The human and mouse RB genes have been thoroughly characterized ( 1 , 2 ) . |
| 6 | Activity levels in the branches have been high and regional CPD events have been well attended . |
| 7 | British Jurassic workers have been particularly disillusioned about the stratotype because , though Jurassic stratigraphy has always led the rest of the column , many of the classic Jurassic stages were derived from English place-names ( like Kimmeridge and Bath ) by a Frenchman ( Alcide d'Orbigny ) who never visited England . |
| 8 | The NHS reforms have been continually criticised by doctors , nurses , patients , union leaders , and Labour politicians since they came into effect in April l991 . |
| 9 | Most of the Ness men had been here before and , in the relatively calm water under the cliffs inside the bay of Geodha Phiall Bhain , a berthing party was soon away in the dinghy . |
| 10 | The great Da Ponte operas have been constantly in the international repertory since the early years of the century ( with the exception of Così fan tutte , which finally came back into its own in the 1950s ) ; while the lesser-known ones such as Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito are now taking their place alongside their more familiar stable-mates . |
| 11 | Provence reds have been notoriously tough and rough . |
| 12 | Original Savoy titles have been painstakingly transferred to digital disc from either original Savoy lacquer masters or tape masters where applicable . |
| 13 | Princes Street limes have been especially selected as replacement trees , paid for by the town trustees . |
| 14 | The UN convoys have been tamely allowing gunmen to hijack relief supplies . |
| 15 | Two Rob Roy canoes had been in ahead of the main raiding force on the night of 22/3 November , one pair of these canoeists were caught — described later — and the second missed their rendezvous , paddling back to England . |
| 16 | Paddy lands have been largely neglected , and the poorer classes have sought employment in the plumbago mines , preferring the certainty of regular and ample wages to the prospective reward of a crop in the fields often liable to damage from floods and other causes beyond their control . ’ |
| 17 | Reading schemes have been heavily criticized for a range of reasons . |
| 18 | But , one year later , some experienced figures reckoned the post-Franks changes had been pretty superficial . |
| 19 | It is now generally appreciated that Warner Bros had been particularly badly hit by the depression , largely because of the furious rate at which they had acquired movie-houses in the 1920s . |
| 20 | Since then , several lucky Hairflair readers have been along to the Feature You studios in London for a fabulous make-over and photographic shoot — with some stunning results … |
| 21 | Even if Liverpool methods had been universally adopted — and very few areas had the same religious background as Liverpool , the real basis of Salvidge 's success — then change would be slow and limited . |
| 22 | The articles in the Sunday papers had been well done in their way : the spread of photographs in the Grub had made the point Hilda had wanted made without undue underlining : all the local bookshops ( two ) had piles of copies of The Factory Whistle that seemed to diminish rapidly and be renewed . |
| 23 | A similar majority ( 76 per cent ) , however , deemed the LEA guidelines to have been only reasonably adequate . |
| 24 | So er I I thought to myself well I du n no , I du n no all these Newton girls have been off to Sri Lanka or or , or Zaire or wherever and you 'd you know , is n't that great ? |
| 25 | While the approach taken by the US courts has been much more progressive than that which has been adopted in Britain , it is nonetheless clear that in neither jurisdiction do directors owe a duty of disclosure when trading on impersonal stock exchange markets . |
| 26 | Swinton believed that the UK had left the conference on good ground because US demands had been so unlimited . |
| 27 | In practice , the issues may never be put to the test because it is very likely that other parties would succeed in preventing referenda , but it is still enough of a departure for some evangelical DUP activists to have been initially opposed to the change . |
| 28 | The disputes in the councils which followed the election of Sinn Fein representatives in 1985 has made it clear that loyalists are willing to close down councils rather than work with Sinn Fein , and the younger generation of DUP activists has been fully active in the promotion of that position . |
| 29 | But the focus of this volume is the law of marriage and divorce , which Professor Stone feels has been sorely neglected by historians of the family . |
| 30 | And thousands of Stirling students have been personally represented at university , local and national level . |