Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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31 It can not even decide its own procedures ( and has been prevented from so doing by the Conseil Constitutionel ) .
32 Traditionally , ostertagiasis has been prevented by routinely treating young cattle with anthelmintics over the period when pasture larval levels are increasing .
33 It prefers lime-rich ground and has been recorded on only 20 occasions in Britain .
34 Federal US prosecutors say that a former partner at Frost & Sullivan has been indicted for allegedly trading on inside information stolen from the law firm of Skadden , Arps , Slate , Meagher & Flom : Michael Borlinghaus was indicted for allegedly receiving the non-public information from an IBM Corp executive and the allegation is that Borlinghaus , his friend and neighbour Leonard Bellezza , and others traded on the information ; he faces a possible maximum prison term of 20 years and fines of more than $1m if he is convicted of the offence .
35 This has been done with very harmonic negotiations on contracts , er big operators er and our substantial savings .
36 This has been done by both the BBC and the " Sunday Times " .
37 But it has been done before so why not again ?
38 I understand this theory and , while I am not able to disprove it , I feel that , in the light of all the research which has been done in more recent times , it leaves too many gaps which no one has yet been able to fill .
39 My main criticism of intensive agricultural production , and of animal farming in particular , is that it has been locked for too long into a model-T-Ford-type philosophy , geared to produce a standard commodity as cheaply as possible .
40 The intent of this chapter is to present a model referred to as the ‘ Office of Innovation ’ , which has been implemented within more than ten Fortune 200 corporations .
41 The English language , as has been observed on more than one occasion , is frequently susceptible of ambiguity .
42 Porosity has been observed in both platform and slope deposits of the Z3 Carbonate ( Fig. 27 ) .
43 An improvement in survival with combinations of 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin , however , has been observed in only two of seven randomised studies , and the improvement was only moderate .
44 A £15m scheme to upgrade the A1 between Bramham and Wetherby has been extended by nearly 1km at a cost of £1m to allow traffic to move freely by widening more of the southbound carriageway to Spen Common Lane .
45 The close of play has been extended from 7.30pm to 8pm to accommodate delayed or interrupted matches and over-rate fines have also been increased .
46 The ‘ Peak Panther ’ has been sighted for more than ten years , with several reports of a big black cat in and around New Mills .
47 The overall electron transfer from the anion is particularly high and has been calculated at approximately 0.8e .
48 It just means the grim reaper has been called upon probably just means called upon .
49 It is clear that the basic text file has been increased by around 150 per cent in order to provide the retrieval capabilities offered by the package .
50 So in an attempt to upgrade the tournament and I suspect to make sure that the host nation of the top division is bound to be involved in that division , the number of teams in each division has been increased from sic to eight .
51 And living organisms themselves constantly change their environment , altering its chemical composition by eating , breathing , excreting ; altering its geography by building and destroying ( this relatively obvious concept has been raised to almost metaphysical status by James Lovelock and his devotees as the grandiosely named Gaia hypothesis ) .
52 Interestingly , the former is now given Very Difficult in the guidebook while the latter has been raised to Hard Very Severe .
53 The money has been raised in less than two years .
54 While Ruskin 's relationship with Venice has been explored through both exhibitions and publications , the exhibition at the Accademia Italiana is the first to concentrate on Ruskin and Tuscany .
55 Lindsell feels that much progress has been made in less than two years — more , he admits , than he would have dreamt possible at the outset .
56 The suggestion has been made before now that it was among the Basques that this future rebel against the king of England learnt his what were , for the time , dangerously democratic principles .
57 Aware as we are these days of groups and their many uses , little exploration has been made until recently of the group as a context for spiritual direction .
58 This campaign has been supported by both Alder Valley and Southdown bus companies .
59 This group has been joined for yesterday 's deal by Montagu Private Equity and Samuel Montagu , as well as the Bank of Scotland on the debt side .
60 High-cost oversupply has been compounded by extremely low demand .
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