Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] the " in BNC.

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31 In some cases , such as the BBC 's , though damage has been done the library , surviving still , has critical mass and is usable .
32 When this first draft has been done the researcher has something which can be worked on .
33 When this has been done the common problems of analysis can be dealt with .
34 Once this has been done the receiver 's job is finished and the remaining assets will revert to their owners or to less fortunate unsecured creditors .
35 Once this has been done the terms must be put in order of energy .
36 Wherever land has been colonised the Indians have lost much of their land .
37 The period between 1939 to 1949 has been called the most productive and significant period in Canadian letters to date , which matches the ‘ 10 Lost Years ’ of the post-Depression period exactly .
38 It has been called the ‘ British Problem ’ , brought into being by a combination of renewed English ambition and , for the first time , a new attitude among at least some of the Scots to their southern neighbour .
39 The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament .
40 Increased differentiation based on this mechanism has been called the acquired distinctiveness of cues .
41 Members of the Wedgwood family had been master potters here since the seventeenth century , and Burslem has been called the ‘ Mother of the Potteries ’ .
42 Those principles could well be applied to theology , which has been called the queen of the sciences .
43 The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district .
44 In the context of the debate on continuation schools it can best be understood through an examination of two of its principal features , namely , political stability , which of necessity included social harmony , and what has been called the ‘ civic ideal ’ , which meant service to the community .
45 History has been called the science of the future , so it seems a pity that this body of research comes up with virtually none of the solutions to the problems plaguing the American energy scene .
46 Tyner ( b. 1938 ) , another original and previously precocious American talent , was one fourth of what has been called the ‘ most influential quartet in jazz history ’ — namely John Coltrane of 1960–65 ( Coltrane , Tyner , Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones ) .
47 The principal fears engendered by what has been called the revolution in reproduction are created by ignorance ; and as George Corner , who helped to lay the foundations for the new reproductive technology , foresaw , lack of understanding leads to fears , inhibitions and blind taboos .
48 The effective transaction of communicative business requires the parties concerned to enter into a sort of social contract involving adherence to what has been called the ‘ Cooperative Principle ’ ( see Grice 1975 ) .
49 This head of claim has been called the ‘ walk away ’ category .
50 Luke has been called the Gospel of the Holy Spirit .
51 Next to Howard Hodgson , who has been called the tycoon of funeral directors .
52 He was elected — in absentia — as chairman of the clandestine bishop 's conference established in November 1989 , as a gesture of respect from the leaders of what has been called the largest illegal religious group .
53 This has brought in a new dimension to recent thinking , and begun to raise sharp questions about what has been called the ‘ Latin captivity ’ of western theology .
54 IT HAS been called the victimless crime .
55 Thinking and practice impose what has been called the ‘ sick role ’ ( Tuckett , 1976 ) on people with learning difficulties .
56 Bodiam has been called the most romantic castle ruin in the whole of England .
57 An example of this is shown in what has been called the ‘ Colditz Bicycle Game ’ .
58 RICHARD PHELPS , 29 , has been called the most consistent pentathlete in the world .
59 His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution .
60 This is particularly true of what has been called the functionalist theory of the family .
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