Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb base] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The history of St Mary 's and that of the town over which it presides have been bound together since the Middle Ages , and the church 's sober , dignified presence was to form part of Coleridge 's earliest recollections of childhood . |
| 2 | Most of the proposals it contains have been widely welcomed . |
| 3 | : Fa Some of the country 's leading film starts have been adding their weight to a campaign to keep open an Oxfordshire cinema . |
| 4 | We welcome the positive steps that the Minister says have been taken , and we are glad to hear of the amount of money being spent on monitoring . |
| 5 | Dr Kumar has been in discussion with his former employers British Steel , who he says have been ‘ very sympathetic ’ . |
| 6 | Users of private WANs have been able to send both voice and data over the same lines for years . |
| 7 | Although the new PPG Note is welcome , significant points in the Circulars it replaces have been lost . |
| 8 | The four types are the foundations of the modern phyla , the most basic subdivisions of the animal kingdom , although the articulates and radiates have been broken up as the true range of diversity has become apparent . |
| 9 | The possibility of cheating and some of the issues which it raises have been more formally explored by Barro and Gordon ( 1983 ) and Barro ( 1985 ) within a Phillips curve framework . |
| 10 | In 15 years the 10,000 acres he leases have been sold at $120 an acre , then at $240 , and then seized by moneylenders when the drought of 1988 bankrupted an owner crippled with land boom loans . |
| 11 | The main reason for this lack of use appears have been uncertainty regarding the potential of such a source , a small number of companies indicated that cost was a factor deterring them from this type of information . |
| 12 | Entries for the Diamond Sculls have been reduced from 24 to 16 . |
| 13 | Even at 70 , the energetic Mr Chance can not do enough for those he feels have been restricted in their activities and their education and have little or no chance of mixing with the community . |
| 14 | Statutory accounts relating to each financial year to which the financial information relates have been delivered to the Registrar of Companies . |
| 15 | Vertical markets comprise professional accounting — although the small accountancy practices to which the group sells have been hard-hit by recession , it has managed to maintain stable revenues by selling upgrades of existing accountancy software ranges ; retail — while Radius started selling to this sector only about two years ago , it ‘ performed above expectations ’ , having won a new £500,000 contract from Dixons Group Plc , a £400,000 contract from Southern Electric Plc and a £25,000 contract from Ing C Olivetti SpA ; the public sector — the company has built on its traditional strength in local government to move into health and central government ; fuel distribution — another new area of activity which Bland said is ‘ growing ’ , although he could provide no figures ; and finally , the printing industry — while Radius has in the past concentrated on big customers such as Bowater and Smurfitt , it has now released a ‘ stripped-down ’ version of its management software to attract smaller users . |
| 16 | But it is important that here the yokes are inverted : Mariana and the ties with Spain she represents have been transformed , translated into Mexican , into the complexities of the mestizo Mexican present . |
| 17 | A representative of the ABC Network , which fights on behalf of prisoners it believes have been framed , handed out leaflets about Carter 's case in Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 18 | January first nineteen seven , I C I shares have been amongst the worst on the London market . |
| 19 | Theories that suppose latent inhibition to be a function of what the stimulus itself predicts have been compelled to introduce special explanations to deal with the fact of context — specificity — and , as we shall see , they have done so with rather little success . |