Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans to build the country 's second biggest reservoir have been shelved for at least five years . |
| 2 | Mini-bus services have been experimented with in a number of areas , although the savings over larger buses are not always felt to be great and , frequently , mini-buses will be too small to cope with maximum demand over part of the route ( Dobbs 1979 ) . |
| 3 | Such parents know that it is something they have been socialised into by a segregated society , and that things could have been otherwise : that they ought to be otherwise ( It 's not fair … ’ ) . |
| 4 | Such secondary pulses have been observed at about this time of year after very strong El Ninos in 1957 , 1956 and 1972 — but this 1982 ‘ secondary ’ would have been stronger than the ‘ primary ’ it belongs to , again raising the question ‘ why ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I am appalled at the manner in which Mr Birt 's affairs have been leaked from within the BBC . |
| 6 | Enquiries about the pyrolysis system have been received from around the world . |
| 7 | Car crime , nine hundred and sixty cars so far this year have been broke into in the Portsmouth , bearing in mind yours are around the town . |
| 8 | I have been done over in the street . |
| 9 | This refers to the number of knots that have been tied per in 2 of pile . |
| 10 | Sulawesi and the rest of the Wallacean region have been isolated for at least several hundred thousand years . |
| 11 | Itinerant craftsmen have been argued for on the basis of the use of bronze models for the production of two-piece clay moulds ( Werner 1970 ; Capelle and Vierck 1971 ) and Hines views travelling craftsmen as the most suitable explanation for the dispersal of ornamental metalwork ( Hines 1984 ) . |
| 12 | For the last hundred years the picturesque ruins of the Augustinian nunnery ( founded around 1200 ) have been cared for by the Iona Cathedrals Trust . |
| 13 | Taken to extremes , a Bonsai pine , cherry or plum can embrace many more elements than a mere dwarfed tree might at first suggest to the Westerner : antiquity , continuity ( the best examples have been cared for by successive generations ) , and symbolic qualities that only a study of Zen can fully bring home . |
| 14 | However , over the years , Parliament and the courts have intervened to mitigate the harshness of the situation and certain terms are now implied into sale of goods and similar contracts , whilst exclusion clauses have been disapproved of by the courts , especially if such clauses are demonstrably unfair . |
| 15 | Erm but what we would say at this stage , is that there does n't seem any rationale behind the discounts that have been applied by by the County Council , indeed we have a situation in Hambleton district , where there is a seventy percent discount , erm which does n't seem to us to have been explained or justified . |
| 16 | CONTROVERSIAL plans to redevelop a dilapidated shopping arcade in a town centre have been delayed for at least a year . |
| 17 | The status of the second level nurse has troubled the profession for years , not least because they have been depended on as the mainstay of practical bedside nursing , while being expected to take on more responsibility than their training prepared them for . |
| 18 | What what the government , what the erm the consortium and paper 's about er , is improving the , the identification band that was hanging over of of health care , once that recipe is will get much larger consortium er , it 's much widespread of er , devotion , expertise er , er professionalism in in assessing health needs er think about one of those areas that have been saved from in West Essex over the last over the last few years and by going into a much larger group with more resources erm , there will , they will be able to actually er work er far , far more effectively in sorting out what 's actually needed . |
| 19 | Andrewes ' qualities and weaknesses in public life have been commented upon by his later biographers . |
| 20 | All the suppliers of building services represented in this brochure have been selected from amongst those recommended by established local opinion as being reliable and reasonable . |
| 21 | MORE speed checks have been called for in Darlington streets where motorists regularly flout the law . |
| 22 | Erm the element of control side of it , is extremely frustrating and have have been hinted at by previous speakers to see what are in effect regular and truly massive retail operations going on without development control , without the development of any kind of highway controls which is a county council matter is fully my argue frustrating . |
| 23 | The treatments that were thus superseded have been touched upon in Chapter 2 , but suffice it to say that there was general and unqualified relief from both doctors and patients that they had passed . |
| 24 | These aspects have been touched upon throughout this chapter , but are now highlighted to emphasise their importance . |
| 25 | However , in the past , these businesses have been compensated for by very high profits when the business reaches take-off point . |
| 26 | We have been preached to by film stars and eastern gurus ; by so called fitness experts and by celebrities who want to tell us how to maintain youthful looks . |
| 27 | The case of Goff v Gauthier ( 1991 ) 62 P & CR 388 has shown that it must be fair and reasonable for the vendor to rely on this exclusion ( see page 62 ) ; ( e ) to state that the vendor will not be liable to the extent that any claim arises out of or is increased by the acts or omissions of the purchaser after completion ; ( f ) to provide that the purchaser must give credit for the amount by which assets are found to have been understated , or liabilities have been over-provided for in the accounts ; ( g ) to ensure that the purchaser pays to the vendor all amounts subsequently recovered from third parties relating to claims that have been paid by the vendor . |
| 28 | The topic returns to the forefront of attention in the final chapter , in which I discuss the very possibility of the enterprise I have been engaged in for the previous fourteen . |
| 29 | The best way to start on this dis section of this discussion may be to erm express the observation that the county council and at least one of the local authorities which is Harrogate , erm are already engaged in have been engaged in for some time a very positive erm activity to try and attract to the county inward investment predicament that the economic development unit of the county council , the economic development of at of at least the one local authority that I have named and erm prospective developers such I 'm representing today , share common predicament , is that the existing structure plan constructs some obstructions , erects some obstructions to the attraction of inward investment into the county . |
| 30 | The cycle of periodic reviews of fields is in place and the first initial validations have been led from within the Polytechnic , including those for physics , chemistry , business administration & management , and nursing and midwifery . |