Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [adv] [been] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If turf which has long been mown , and the case would be the same with turf closely browsed by quadrupeds , be let to grow , the more vigorous plants gradually kill the less vigorous , though fully grown plants ; thus out of 20 species growing on a little plot of mown turf ( 3 feet by 4 feet ) 9 species perished , from the other species being allowed to grow up freely ’ ( The Origin of Species ) . |
| 2 | Constructed as a spoof documentary about a political candidate for the US Senate whose promotional ads are pop videos and whose campaign bus is a mobile trading floor , it joins the dots of a diagram — Eighties politics as the flip-side of Sixties counter-culture — which has long been part of the landscape ( and which could do with an update ) . |
| 3 | But one facet of the Wild West which has never been part of our social scene is surfacing now in cinematographic form . |
| 4 | At the end of November , when the extension and new filter were completed , the fish and plants were replaced in the main pond which had also been pressure cleaned and the mains water hose was left flowing overnight in order to refill the pond . |
| 5 | Richard I had disafforested the southern half , but they did not know whether Henry II had afforested any district which had not been forest in the time of Henry I. |
| 6 | Ltd. ( ‘ the dock company ’ ) as the company responsible for the operation of the port , which had formerly been part of the Chatham Royal Dockyard , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. , as occupiers of berths and land in the port from which they carried on their businesses . |
| 7 | But it was not long before symptoms of the hypochondria which had always been present showed themselves in strength . |
| 8 | Increasingly they used the principle of partible inheritance ( which had long been characteristic of some other European societies ) , where the estate was divided between the surviving spouse and children . |
| 9 | The big hook which had once been part of a hanging scales was in the shape of the letter S , and sharpened to a point at both ends . |
| 10 | Many reasons may be adduced for the Polish uprising of November 1830 : the Russians ' two-year hunt for " Polish Decembrists " ; the tsar 's reluctance to be separately crowned as King of Poland ; the refusal of St Petersburg to attach to the " Congress Kingdom " of Poland the provinces to the east which had once been part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; the emergence of Polish literary figures who " understood romanticism as embodying a patriotic call to restore the old republic within its old frontiers " ; the decline of the Polish economy ; the inspiration of the events of 1830 in France and Belgium ; and the arrest , just before the rising , of a number of militant soldiers and students . |
| 11 | That summary of early Texan history is included , not just for general interest , but to illustrate several factors which have always been characteristic of Texan culture , and so have influenced the history of prisons in the state . |
| 12 | It was also to assimilate the various discontents and disaffections into the one comprehensive sense of outrage , and further to inflame opinion so that what had already been enthusiasm , to the point of violence , for reform , now became passion . |
| 13 | What had previously been gossip only within a small circle had become widely known throughout the world , excepting however that substantial part of the British public which did not have international Contacts . |
| 14 | Then , sighing , Charles opened the car door and stepped into the desolation of what had once been Thrush Green rectory . |
| 15 | Much of this came from the abolition of fallow , much from the farming of what had hitherto been moor , heath or marsh , much , unfortunately , from the destruction of woodlands . |