Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Householders and shopowners in the town have been warned of an influx of vermin from nearby marshlands . |
| 2 | Several chimeric plasminogen activators , consisting of various portions of t-PA and urokinase-type-PA , have been constructed in an effort to combine the mechanisms of fibrin-selectivity of both molecules . |
| 3 | The documents have been collected by an international team of scholars led by Professor Ian Budge , Essex University . |
| 4 | Samples have been collected from an even wider area covering the whole of the United Kingdom continental shelf , but these have yet to be analysed and the results entered on the database . |
| 5 | Parents have been invited to an open day at the Royal Opera House which includes a back-stage tour , as well as dance and make-up sessions . |
| 6 | COMMUNITY leaders from both sides of the border have been invited to an ecumenical church service at Creggan in south Armagh today . |
| 7 | This is the polar opposite of those who have been brainwashed by an ideology , and who lose all sense of being individuals . |
| 8 | For years , American X-ray astronomers have been pushing for an Advanced X-ray Astrophysics facility ( AXAF ) which would have better sensitivity and resolution of detail , than all other X-ray telescopes presently planned . |
| 9 | Welcome back : Large numbers of skeletons buried in a mass grave have been unearthed by an archaeological dig . |
| 10 | The Government claims that income support rates have been increased by an amount to cover what on average is the 20 per cent rate bill for the entire country . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , hundreds more job losses have been announced in an area which has already suffered heavily from the recession . |
| 12 | FOR the second year in succession , St Mary Axe staff have been affected by an IRA bomb . |
| 13 | David Smith 's ‘ Cubi XXVII ’ , the celebrated work which used to stand by the museum 's entrance , and a second sculpture by the artist , have been placed on an awkward terrace above the Monitor Building . |
| 14 | Most decent councillors have been placed in an impossible position because of the failure of the Government 's housing and economic policies to deliver the affordable rural homes that are so desperately needed . |
| 15 | Shortly afterwards , the Northern Ireland army press office issued the statement : About eighteen shots have been fired in an incident in which security forces were not involved . |
| 16 | I assume that people are put on the list if they have been connected with an offence relating to prostitution or have been cautioned . |
| 17 | Ten prisoners have reportedly been released and two others , whose sentences have not expired , have been transferred to an undisclosed place of detention . |
| 18 | THREE British Telecom engineers have been sacked over an alleged 0898 cash-quiz fiddle . |
| 19 | FOREIGN links with Darlington have been strengthened following an international luncheon . |
| 20 | The illustrations have been done by an adult artist , but taken from Richard' ; s original ideas . |
| 21 | The client may need reassurance that the standards the hotel claims to offer have been scrutinised by an independent body . |
| 22 | Since then , many of the windows and doors have been blocked with an unsightly assortment of bricks , and the mill relegated to the storage of such diverse commodities as plastics and antiques . |
| 23 | Here , the intergranular pores have been filled by an anhydrite cement leaving only leached porosity , and the sonic log displays a very clear downward-decreasing porosity profile in the uppermost unit of oolitic grainstone ( Fig. 18 ) . |
| 24 | In the second well , however , the sonic log indicates that the upper unit is much tighter and the core descriptions suggest that the pores have been filled by an anhydrite cement . |
| 25 | Tumour-suppressor genes have been implicated in an increasing number of solid cancers , and some of these genes have subsequently been found to be inactivated in haematological malignancies . |
| 26 | Toy soldier enthusiasts have been gathering at an auction to try and pick up some bargains . |
| 27 | The house is now a hotel , catering for local weddings and business receptions ; and the school sports facilities , including the covered pool , have been integrated as an attraction for people wanting an active weekend . |
| 28 | The stables have been converted into an information centre with displays of Border reiving history and battles in which the family has been involved over the centuries . |
| 29 | For instance , the teeth on the famous supposedly Pre-Columbian crystal skull , said to be from Mexico ( fig. 8.7 ) , have been cut with an abrasive wheel . |
| 30 | More than a hundred and thirty people have been killed in an Iranian plane crash near Tehran . |