Example sentences of "what have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 2 | The difficulty is not in the observing but in the interpreting of what has been observed . |
| 3 | The second is that it is unclear whether the findings on animals really predict what has been observed in humans . |
| 4 | Under these conditions AER regeneration does not occur , and in contrast to what has been observed in the chick , there is no obvious effect of AER removal on limb outgrowth ( Figs 1 a , b and 2 a ) . |
| 5 | This result is in contrast with what has been observed by Isshiki et . |
| 6 | Essentially this consists of a series of extended interviews , together with a scrutiny of documentation and similar deliverables , resulting in a report in which conclusions are illustrated by quotations from interviews , or descriptions of what has been observed . |
| 7 | Quite clearly , while I 'm not prepared to put a a figure on the contribution that conversions are going to make to the period to two thousand and six , I 'll be most surprised if it was a long way different from what has been taking place in the past . |
| 8 | If this happens , he will give you written information about what has been done , and where you can get advice or assistance . |
| 9 | By so phrasing each paragraph and bringing each incident to a proper conclusion , Nijinska gives both dancers and audience time to consider what has been done and what is yet to happen . |
| 10 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 11 | It is the task of the sociologist to understand all this , to find out what has been done already in this field , to see what light the general background of religious and familial studies can shed on this particular social act , and to formulate original ideas in a more explicitly sociological fashion . |
| 12 | This is what has been done for ‘ pocket ’ LC TV . |
| 13 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 14 | The September issue of Catholic Voice , our diocesan newspaper , carried an insert — four pages giving an overview of the diocese — what has been done by many people — clergy and laity — during recent years — what should be developed or initiated , together with a general account of the financial position . |
| 15 | The ordeal of repetition is a way to jumpstart the indecision of beginning again : not to repeat what has been done but to retrace the same path . |
| 16 | ‘ what has been done ’ |
| 17 | These criticisms , which focus on what has been left undone rather than on what has been done , are inevitably inconclusive . |
| 18 | What has been done supplies the framework of justification for what is to be done . |
| 19 | What has been done , and what is morally judged , is partly determined by external factors . |
| 20 | If the aim of judicial review is seen as being only the protection of individuals ( whether people or organizations ) , this would suggest and justify standing rules which require the applicant to show that he , she or it is specially affected by what has been done or decided . |
| 21 | Imagine wanting to live in that room , that awful room , with walls like dung-heaps , what has happened in there , what has been done in that room ? |
| 22 | A characteristic of automatic performance is an apparent loss of memory for what has been done during the previous few moments . |
| 23 | For example , to summarise what has been done above ( we refer to row i as |
| 24 | summarise it , and an awful lot of what has been done by the subjects |
| 25 | Well the only thing is that I hope that the next generation that is coming along now will appreciate what has been done for their generation because it took a long time for us to get what we wanted for our children and now with our grandchildren are coming along I hope the town will improve with their growth . |
| 26 | He justified his policy to the Chiefs of Staff by arguing , ‘ We shall be doing no more than what has been done in Italy … in turning people who were satellites … into co-belligerents . ’ |
| 27 | The motion before such a committee is that it has considered an instrument , so that the only means of protest is to vote against the motion — in effect , deny doing what has been done ! |
| 28 | Would that I could undo what has been done . ’ |
| 29 | The experience of witnessing psychosocially normal people from a wide range of abilities and backgrounds telling the stories of their individual experience and what has been done to them , would be the best method of ensuring that sufferers from addictive disease are not treated as dismissively in the future as they have tended to be in the past . |
| 30 | The distinction has to be considered at least to some extent because only by identifying what has been done in the past can one see how deficiencies remain to be corrected in the future research agenda . |