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

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1 Yeah , this drug could 've been developed and refined and er gone into a lot further , but they did n't .
2 It has been recognised that personal effectiveness in all aspects of life , including work , requires the development of certain broad transferable skills .
3 Since the original description of a columnarised lower esophagus by Barrett in 1950 and Allison and Johnson in 1953 it has been recognised that this abnormal lining has a marked propensity to develop serious complications .
4 Since then a sound cabin has been built and technical training undertaken to maximise the effectiveness of the broadcasts .
5 A special area has been built where 8 counselling services come together under one organisation .
6 Some of the typical distinctions between discourse which has been written and that which has been spoken can be seen in the following two descriptions of a rainbow .
7 In reactors where there is a little organic matter , the fission products are trapped on clay minerals , but these have been less effective than bitumen — about 30 per cent of the ND has been lost and other lanthanides have migrated away from the core .
8 British firms have not allocated sufficient resources to technological innovation , and the environmental infrastructure for innovation has been fragmented and disparate .
9 It has been stated that one of the justifications for the American business judgment rule is that it limits ‘ judicial intrusiveness with respect to private-sector decisionmaking ’ .
10 ( It is interesting to note that the right to benefit for 16 and 17 year olds has been denied and these young people either accept some form of youth training or get nothing at all . )
11 An excellent example of such a walk has been developed and waymarked by councils in the eastern county of Gwent — a move which in itself is a sign of changed official attitudes and priorities .
12 The textbase STATLT holding the statutes for England has been developed and refined in a series of projects since 1980 and at the start of the project described here already provided a very detailed definition of the data structure [ 1 ] , full text-searching facilities , symbolic addressing in the manner of Figure 2 and a multi-valued attribute marg-note-xref in each text unit to record cross-references made to other parts of the text [ 23 ] .
13 The nature of psychoanalysis as a communicative encounter has been developed and refined by Jurgen Habermas .
14 It has been developed and refined over the last four years by engineers at the company 's parent company , General Motors .
15 Hitherto the instrumental approach to law has been criticized as inadequate to provide a coherent explanation for contradictory tendencies in legal developments .
16 Few would deny that there are elements of truth in this explanation , but it has been criticized as incomplete because of its bias towards élites and its failure to explain why nationalist symbols had such wide appeal .
17 Lucky is looking bent which has been bent and battered !
18 Tom Burke , director of the Green Alliance , has been appointed as one of a team of policy advisors to Michael Heseltine , the Secretary of State for the Environment .
19 Hans Peter Gohla has been appointed as executive director of the Catholic Media Council ( CAMECO ) in Aachen , Germany .
20 Our congratulations go to two Trainers , who will shortly be taking up new appointments — Joan Gatfield has been appointed as Associate Lecturer at Southwark and Hilary Weedon is now Senior Liaison Officer of the National Childrens Play and Recreation Unit of the Sports Council .
21 Dr B. M. Grieveson , CChem , FRSC , principal of Grieveson Associates , has been appointed as visiting professor to the department of civil engineering at the University of Surrey .
22 Question 1 of the additional questions will reveal whether or not the road has been adopted and all charges paid .
23 The aristocracy — ie. titled landowners — do still exist and have been joined by the very wealthy ( through ownership or investment ) : it has been reckoned that this 1% of adult population owns one-quarter of all the wealth in Britain .
24 It has been observed that two out of three fiction readers in libraries do not look at the text of a book before choosing it .
25 It has been observed that some people switching from using a typewriter to a personal computer can gain up to half a stone a year because they no longer have to get up to consult filing cabinets ; and the same effects can be observed when people use remote-control television , extension phones , lifts and dishwashers .
26 It has been observed that Christian fortresses in Syria on numerous occasions failed to act as any sort of check on the movement of Muslim armies .
27 LTF , however , lasts much longer than a mere ten hours ; the effect can also be found in unanaesthetized animals implanted with permanent electrodes , and in such animals the potentiation has been observed as much as 16 weeks after the initial brief burst of stimulation .
28 In other tropical areas such as East Africa , no significant degree of hypobiosis has been observed and this may be due to more frequent rainfall in these areas making such an evolutionary development unnecessary .
29 To explain these associations it has been hypothesised that dietary fat increases the colonic concentrations of soluble free fatty acids and secondary bile acids .
30 It has been hypothesised that this characteristic is due to extra chromosomal material in the X chromosome as compared with the Y chromosome .
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