Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have all been voted the most boring people in America , according to a poll in Mademoiselle magazine . |
| 2 | The fact that one in five of the complaints were held to be breaches of the code shows that the tobacco companies have perhaps been treating the committee and the issue in a cavalier way . |
| 3 | In the midst of the proceedings , when they have already been given the Ten Commandments and much besides , and Moses is on the summit of Sinai receiving more torah to relay to them , they rebel . |
| 4 | ‘ This year we have already been told the reason we have had three surges higher than anticipated was because of the bath-tub effect from closing the Thames barrier , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Have just been reading the book of Joel . |
| 6 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 7 | Also , the trio have just been offered the chance of following in the footsteps of The Osmonds and The Jackson Five by allowing themselves to be made into a Saturday morning TV cartoon series . |
| 8 | Survivors have always been told the terms of the peace treaty with Japan meant nothing more could be done for them . |
| 9 | Alasdair MacConnachie , of Sherwoods Garage , and Darlington architect Geoffrey Townsend have both been awarded the British Standard 5750 certificate to mark the quality of their work . |
| 10 | The two power stations awarded licenses by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , are Richborough in Kent and Ince in Merseyside , which have both been burning the fuel on an experimental basis for the last three years . |
| 11 | Persian rugs have traditionally been considered the most expensive and easily re-saleable of all oriental rugs , and allowing for a few notable exceptions ( usually older and more collectable items from different parts of the world ) , this assumption has generally held true . |
| 12 | THE benefits of car leasing are something that have traditionally been considered the preserve of the business sector . |
| 13 | You have also been watching the chateau . |
| 14 | Since his death the workers of the industrial world have experienced ( despite severe dislocations in the 1920s , 1930s and 1970s ) a fairly continuous increase in their material standards of living , a massive expansion of social welfarism and have also been given the right to vote for their own governments in relatively pluralistic political systems with competitive political parties and regular elections . |
| 15 | I have also been exploring the Bit Knitter and the range of design options offered by Deluxe Paint , which is a very powerful graphics package . |
| 16 | The Commons public accounts committee and trade and industry select committee have also been sent the documentation . |
| 17 | We have also been offered the opportunity to have a former L.M.S . |
| 18 | To be fair we have also been offered the chance of revising articles which attracted substantial justifiable criticism . |
| 19 | Rolls-Royce and British Aerospace have also been feeling the slump in civil aviation : the hangover after a spending boom , the post-liberalisation troubles of the American airline industry and the hiccup over the Gulf war have all cut into demand for new aeroplanes . |
| 20 | I have also been told the same story time and time again . |
| 21 | We 've had a list of anecdotes designed to panic the public and patience of Councillor and I was disappointed that Liberal do n't seem to understand that the Health Authorities have now been given the op the responsibility for planning and provisional health care in er in health authorities . |
| 22 | The Belgian state phone company Belgacom and P&T Luxembourg have cosily been awarded the contract to install the European Parliament 's internal telecommunications network , which requires that they supply , set up and operate the private network , integrating all services used by the deputies and the administration : the network links Brussels , Luxembourg and Strasbourg and will be installed during the summer of 1993 to be ready for the first autumn session . |
| 23 | The Puritans — who have sometimes been given the useful alternative title ‘ the hotter sort of Protestants ’ and are now increasingly referred to by historians as ‘ the godly ’ — did not necessarily uphold different beliefs from the moderates , but their religious activities generally occupied a far greater proportion of their time and energy . |
| 24 | These writers have sometimes been called the ‘ dual-role ’ theorists because of their focus on the double work of women as simultaneously housewives and paid workers . |
| 25 | That many of the communities in question have historically been denied the opportunity to help themselves because of dependency relationships with other more dominant areas or with dominant groups in society or with the state , must also be recognised . |
| 26 | In contrast to the Lorenz model of a homogeneously broadened laser discussed earlier , the situation in high-gain gas lasers with inhomogeneous broadening has been one where the experiments have actually been leading the theoretical development . |
| 27 | Actuaries have recently been considering the particular difficulties of calculating pensions valuations in divorce cases , but have also been looking at the much wider issues raised by the changing pattern of divorce and marriage . |
| 28 | Plans for a private marina with 100 properties , to be built beside Poole Harbour , have recently been given the go-ahead . |
| 29 | Further , we have recently been awarded the lead position in the privatisation of YPF , the Argentine state oil company , which will be one of the largest privatisations ever done in Latin America . |
| 30 | I have therefore been considering the case for taking the initiative and disclosing details of the Committee structure . |