Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 2 | I do not claim to be comprehensive in what follows , rather my aim has been to assess some of the main features of kin support in the past which have particular relevance to the central theme of this book — how important are duty , obligation and responsibility in motivating the support which people give to their relatives ? |
| 3 | The interim committee , which was established by a resolution of the board of governors in 1974 , has been given more of the responsibilities of the full board since its smaller number of members allows it to work more effectively . |
| 4 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |
| 5 | JULIEANNE McConville ( 20 ) , has been modelling most of her life . |
| 6 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 7 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 8 | The purpose of this paper has been to review some of the legal issues that organisations need to address when operating in an electronic documentation environment . |
| 9 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 10 | My task has been to reconsider some of those complicated but always significant histories wherein differences conflict and converge as desire itself . |
| 11 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 12 | Britain has been resisting much of this , but none too skilfully . |
| 13 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |
| 14 | But as Ian McGeechan himself said : ‘ He has been playing some of the best rugby of his life . ’ |
| 15 | The Metropolitan Museum has been examining some of its most treasured paintings with the aid of the latest technology , and it has come up with a result which confounds the hitherto accepted history of art . |
| 16 | Ironically , it has been one of the board 's own employees , Dr Ross Hesketh , who has been questioning many of the rather bland assurances on what has happened to British plutonium from the civil programme . |
| 17 | The cumulative effect has been to remove much of the archaeological evidence for settlement from the slopes and uplands , leaving behind only the remnants of flint implements and pottery and the deepest post holes . |
| 18 | However , the cost of achieving this has been to remove some of the advantages of forward contracts as well . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that the effect of GATT over most of the postwar years has been to remove some of the protection afforded to national markets . |
| 20 | Our disclosure will of course interest Fergie , who has been spending most of her time with John Bryan but undoubtedly still wears the red and black £100-apiece underwear which she bought from Janet . |
| 21 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 22 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 23 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 24 | And they 'd been commissioned both of them . |
| 25 | Opioid use is the top category , and individuals in this group may also have been using any of the drugs in the other five categories . |
| 26 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 27 | Had butterflies been colour-blind and bees without a delicate sense of smell , man would have been denied some of the greatest delights that the natural world has to offer . |
| 28 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 29 | ‘ And I said Mark Robins is a local lad who cost nothing and should have been given more of a chance . |
| 30 | This was a one-off film for Chaplin and he was well aware that to have sustained that role and that theme would have been to sacrifice much of his great following and to have become an artist with a more sectional support . |