Example sentences of "have been [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A growing queue of upper-crust drinkers have been seeking the heady relief at the ‘ gentlemen 's pharmacy ’ , D R Harris & Co , of St James 's in London — chemist to the Queen Mother . |
| 2 | Over the last year many people around the diocese have been exploring the Catholic faith , with a view to becoming Catholics themselves . |
| 3 | Immediately contracts have been exchanged the exact redemption figure should be obtained from the mortgagee . |
| 4 | We have been reversing the Labour Party 's neglect of the prison service in the 1970s . |
| 5 | Worth a visit , too , is the topknot quarry , a small volcanic vent of vivid hue from which have been excavated the ruddy cylinders weighing up to tens of tons . |
| 6 | THE FRIENDS of John McCarthy have been reminding the Foreign Office that the British Government is the only government without a single success in efforts to achieve the release of any of its hostages . |
| 7 | Japanese researchers have been subjecting the real seven-storey building to ‘ pseudodynamic testing ’ . |
| 8 | Oliver Sacks is hardly putting himself out on a limb when he affirms that the brain is not like a computer : neuroscientists have been telling the Artificial Intelligence buffs that for years . |
| 9 | Three thousand members of the Sealed Knot have been re-staging the civil war battle in which the city managed to hold off the royalist seige for twenty six days . |
| 10 | The 1990s have been declared the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction . |
| 11 | To ensure confidentiality of information sources , companies have been given the following tags . |
| 12 | Staff have been given the effective reward of being valued through a positive acknowledgement of their competence providing a greater sense of identity and improving self-esteem . |
| 13 | What has tended to happen historically , with earlier attempts to provide alternatives to custody , is that instead of moving offenders currently receiving a sentence of imprisonment down-tariff , in this case to some form of punishment in the community , down-tariff offenders — those who formerly were dealt with by a fine or conditional discharge — have been given the new sentence . |
| 14 | NORTHERN Ireland butchers have been given the good news they can compete in a major English contest to find the country 's top sausage-maker . |
| 15 | The justification ( in addition to the desire not to increase the department 's work load ) is that local authorities are elected bodies which have been given the legal power to decide . |
| 16 | Those principles reflect our conviction that Britain has done best when the people of Britain have been given the personal incentive to succeed . |
| 17 | FOUR Hereford players were sent off yesterday in their 1-1 draw at Northampton — the first time in British history four players from one side have been given the red card . |
| 18 | CHANGES to the law on damages in Scotland have been given the Royal Assent after a campaign to help the families of workers dying from asbestos-related diseases . |
| 19 | District nurses and health visitors who have been given the statutory power to prescribe treatments may not be given the authority to do so by their employers . |
| 20 | This second stage is carried out in public speech to which we have been given the decoding key , and from our privileged perspective the success of the hypocrite has unfortunate consequences for the dupe . |
| 21 | In all the time I have been writing the bass analysis column , I can not remember receiving any requests for the very influential playing of John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin , and now I get two in the same month . |
| 22 | Erm and those people who have been asked the specific question , Would you pay a premium price for this water as against that which you 're drinking ? said yes . |
| 23 | Whether conscious or not of their own envy , the people in the most difficulty are those who feel they have been born the wrong sex — suspicious , or even quite clear , that their parents desperately wanted them to be the boy or girl they were not . |
| 24 | Coltart and Everett have been learning the hard way that it hardly matters if you can sometimes drive the ball 50 yards father than anyone else if the statistics show that some of your opponents single-putt an average of 24 greens per tournament . |
| 25 | Places like Welwyn Garden City and Crawley have been experiencing the relentless movement of these original cohorts of migrants up the ‘ age pyramid ’ . |
| 26 | Yet he 's found that several other farmers have been experiencing the fecund year . |
| 27 | The frequency of this rhythmic activity is determined by a group of cells on the greater curvature which have been called the gastric pacemaker . |
| 28 | What can be done about discrimination against Travellers , given that travelling people in the Glen Road have been denied the fundamental right of official halting sites which should have been provided by Belfast City Council ? |
| 29 | We have been denied the exhilarating late ‘ minuet ’ tempos of Haydn and Mozart … |
| 30 | Some of the agencies have been recommending the complete party and for some people this is ideal , in that they then do not have to worry . |