Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though many more polar homeotherms have been examined since then , evidence to the contrary has been slight . |
| 2 | In recent years , to avoid accidents trams have been fitted with more powerful klaxons and painted in brighter and more eye-catching liveries . |
| 3 | Despite the performance penalties and useful load restrictions caused by their weight , over the years floats have been fitted to almost every type of single-engined lightplane — and many twins . |
| 4 | Six people have been prosecuted for persistently ignoring ‘ residents only ’ parking schemes in Middlesbrough and ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £710 . |
| 5 | They have been united for more than 350 years , for much of which time Russians have perceived Ukrainians as ethnically identical to themselves . |
| 6 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 7 | Old people have been indoctrinated for so long in the necessary frailty and peripheralism of their lot that this is not surprising . |
| 8 | We have been pushing for more effective action from the NIO for years and it is utter nonsense to say otherwise , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the reforms which had been implemented up to 1990 did not emerge from discussions between the communities concerned and the government but have been imposed from above . |
| 11 | In addition , of those who have increased spend on one particular area in the past year mail-shots have been increased by nearly one quarter . |
| 12 | of its manufacturing jobs between 1979 and 1989 and that a further 3,600 redundancies have been announced since then ? |
| 13 | Teachers ' unions have been consulted at both local and national levels . |
| 14 | Of the 307 theses in data set C , 230 ( 75% ) have been consulted at least once . |
| 15 | The GAO is concerned about the increased use of antibiotics to treat the higher incidence of mastitis in cows which have been fed with BST . |
| 16 | This is in contrast with the usual representation of a physical map , where clones are summarised as intervals which have been packed into as few lines as possible ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 17 | Eight authors and seven illustrators have been placed on unusually long shortlists for the Carnegie and Greenaway Awards . |
| 18 | A total of seven young have been raised at specially guarded nests in Scotland . |
| 19 | Robespierre 's experiment was , scarcely surprisingly , a dismal failure ; and while the delicious dream of a universal , natural and reasonable religion may have an understandable attraction for those who are influenced by but not wholly committed to Christian ( or some other ) belief , it does not appear capable of offering any very stable resting-place , or any adequate defence against the more radical challenges to religion as such which have been raised from without and within Christian theology in modern times . |
| 20 | Even so , the larger features in Figure 9.3 are visible from the Earth and many have been observed to hardly change over the 100 or so years for which Jupiter has been subject to extensive and continuous observation with powerful telescopes . |
| 21 | Conclusions about the lack of success with young offenders have been transferred to quite different groups such as the elderly or mentally handicapped as well as to children and young people in care generally . |
| 22 | Traditionally , life insurance policies have been geared to either protection or investment , rarely to both . |
| 23 | You can not pretend to people who , like you , have been pretending for as long as they can remember : they do not let you get away with it . |
| 24 | Besides the square form , octagonal examples have been excavated at both Chelmsford and Nettleton Shrub , the latter being somewhat unusual having three concentric divisions . |
| 25 | Rail fares have been rising at around 1 ½ per cent over inflation in recent years and the new corporate plan also warns that BR has 12 months to assess whether passengers would pay even more for a better service . |
| 26 | Responses have been received from all over the country , and in geographical terms , can regarded as broadly representative . |
| 27 | Since the 1980 Competition Act it is also possible for the Director General of Fair Trading to refer a particular practice of an individual firm to the Commission , where complaints have been received from supposedly injured parties , or the practice is suspected of limiting competition . |
| 28 | Promotional packs have been sent to over 100 organisations and a number of discussions have taken place with interested parties . |
| 29 | Since 1954 , over 300 million tonnes of agricultural products valued at $33 billion have been sent to more than 100 countries under the programme . |
| 30 | And so far on the mammoth project the TSDO troops have been sent in successfully thousands of times . |