Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school .
2 Their evidence for this judgement , as with those presented in most of their surveys , was loosely stated and difficult to verify , but the argument has been echoed many times in recent years in Britain by academics and policy-makers alike .
3 It is this basic human right that has been denied deaf persons and their families for hundreds of years .
4 Pauline Golightly , 24 , of Vernon Gardens , Harrowgate Hill , says that since she moved into the house last October her Nissan Sunny has been vandalised four times .
5 The American , considered one of the most sympathetic of riders , has been penalised four times for careless riding since arriving here in 1979 .
6 She has been appointed public relations assistant .
7 Andrew Lawrence , previously sales manager at Pest Control London South has been appointed national accounts executive .
8 Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years .
9 A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner .
10 Again , it is not my intention here to review the variations and criticisms in detail this has been done many times elsewhere .
11 But erm yeah , it 's , it 's er good for what it is , but I think this has been done many times before and er I sh would think that everybody 's seen some just slightly better than this , but it 's quite a nice er sunset .
12 After this has been done several times , the actual frequency of reorganization can be compared with that expected , and the future reorganization schedule will be based on the results .
13 Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals .
14 There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years .
15 Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments .
16 A much sought-after right-winger , Cooper has been transferred four times .
17 Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham .
18 The Cabinet outcast managed to upstage Kenneth Baker , the Conservative party chairman , who has been taking acting lessons from Kenneth Branagh .
19 The world 's highest peak has been scaled many times since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953 .
20 PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force .
21 SCIAF has been supporting income-generation schemes for AIDS sufferers in Uganda as well as training and counselling , and it is expected that demands for assistance with AlDS-related projects will increase substantially in the next few years .
22 This function has been called many times under many conditions , and with a variety of subjects .
23 For instance , the fine against a player ranked in the top 4 in the world has been increased five times from $20,000 to £100,000 .
24 To this end the ODR has been raised five times since May 1989 .
25 Sun executives say the issue of Sun chief executive officer Scott McNealy giving up his other post as president of Sun Microsystems Computer Corp , Sun 's systems planet ( UX No 433 ) , has been raised many times and never acted on .
26 That , too , has been raised many times tonight .
27 My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before .
28 In Ariel ( 15 ) a miner who has been made redundant heads south to Helsinki and falls in love .
29 In it , a miner who has been made redundant heads south to Helsinki and falls in love .
30 When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software .
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