Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deposit will be returned once the roads have been completed to the satisfaction of the local authority and adopted ; or ( b ) Entering into a section 38 agreement which will entail obtaining a road guarantee bond from a bank or insurance company . |
| 2 | The various highways and public transport requirements can be covered by negative conditions i.e. no houses should be occupied until the specified roadworks etc. have been completed to the satisfaction of the Director of Highways . |
| 3 | Geophysical and geological interpretation , conceptual engineering design , reservoir simulation and environmental screening studies have been completed on the field . |
| 4 | ARRANGEMENTS have been completed for the sale of the Adidas sporting goods company to Robert Louis-Dreyfus , the chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi , and allied French investors , a French business paper reported yesterday . |
| 5 | Two projects in the area of personal and social development have been completed within the last year : |
| 6 | Sixteen houses have been completed in the first phase of a re-development scheme which will eventually remove all the 1960s-built flats . |
| 7 | If such changes were made , the board of directors would not consist of all previous partners , but only of those who have been elected to the executive committee or their current equivalents . |
| 8 | More blacks have been elected to the state legislature , and a black also heads the Dade county commission . |
| 9 | And women have not been present in those circles with the result that they have been deprived of the means to participate in the construction of forms of thought which are relevant or adequate to express their own experience , ( Spender , 1981 , p. 3 ) . |
| 10 | Will my right hon. Friend assure the House that he will not agree to binding minimum rates of income tax in Europe , which have been advocated by the Socialist Confederation in Europe and are supported by the Labour party in this country ? |
| 11 | Just 90 Pit Bulls have been registered under the Dangerous Dogs Act , introduced in 1991 following public outrage against attacks on children and adults on the mainland . |
| 12 | Most of us have been warned about the health risks of high blood pressure ( hypertension ) but few people are aware that in several European countries the opposite condition of low blood pressure ( hypotension ) is regarded as a medical problem . |
| 13 | We have been warned in the most solemn terms , and a Government who were responsible for the poll tax should surely this time show some humility , some willingness to listen and learn . |
| 14 | YOUNGER royals from Prince Charles down have been warned by the Queen to behave as she strives to salvage her family 's battered public image . |
| 15 | Local authority leaders have been warned by the Scottish Secretary that the government is determined to keep public spending under control . |
| 16 | Millions of acres of tropical forest have been cleared in the pursuit of cheaper beef for hamburgers . |
| 17 | They have been cleared by the European Commission because they were transitional contracts . |
| 18 | Peasant federations in Costa Rica , a country with a reputation for democratic institutions and relative equality , have been protesting at the surprisingly skewed distribution of land , by seizing unused land belonging to multinationals . |
| 19 | She identifies advertising as one of the main forms of these , and feels that the pressure is intensified by the attitudes of friends and family who have been influenced by the media and make it extremely difficult for girls to remain impervious to the images of beauty which surround them : on TV , in films , magazines and newspapers . |
| 20 | Possibly you have been influenced by the examples of masochism in the book , a term I coined to define that particular perversion . |
| 21 | However , such works do not merely show the dominant culture being resisted and subverted by popular culture ; in their form , they themselves have been influenced by the culture which they depict . |
| 22 | The shape and direction of the valleys have been influenced by the location of the more easily eroded volcanic material . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , a lot of contemporary architects have been influenced by the Gropius school of thought which maintains that architects should allow a building to be what it wants to be , rather than imposing any character or theme upon it . |
| 24 | These dramatic styles have been influenced by the look of the sixties . |
| 25 | In this respect , I have been influenced by the success of Proposition 13 enacted in California in 1978 , which necessitated a sharp reduction in property taxes . |
| 26 | Other contributors , like Alison Assiter , Joanna Hodge and Margaret Whitford , have been influenced by the non-analytic traditions of Continental Europe . |
| 27 | Other sectors such as construction and trading houses have had different spurs to go abroad , but they too have been influenced by the earlier investors . |
| 28 | As the previous section indicated , most contemporary theories of stratification have been influenced by the pioneering work of Marx or Weber . |
| 29 | Do you discuss how these ideas have been influenced by the mass media as well as by the fine arts ? |
| 30 | These are important policy issues which have been examined by the author , as well as other commentators , elsewhere and which merit further critical analysis ( e.g. Hudson , 1990 ; Phillipson , 1990 ; Hughes , 1991 ; Osborne , 1991 ) . |