Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] been [verb] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of fans have been flocking to see Britain 's longest running soap opera on the live stage . |
| 2 | Finally , schools have been expected to initiate discussions and reviews of the curriculum a change from the more usual state of affairs with regard to whole curriculum issues ( a point we made earlier ) . |
| 3 | In an attempt to prevent violence and injury , steps have been taken to combat drunkenness at football matches and to improve crowd control . |
| 4 | Databases have been created using SIR to record a special collection of A-level background reading and a selection of fiction chosen by third-year pupils . |
| 5 | Tom-cats have been known to produce offspring at the advanced feline age of sixteen years . |
| 6 | Computers have been known to make mistakes . |
| 7 | Over the last decade or so , new types of financial instrument have been developed to help businesses manage the risks from fluctuations in interest and exchange rates . |
| 8 | Perhaps the feeling that you must of necessity always be at the client 's beck and call , and some clients have been known to take advantage of this situation . |
| 9 | Since then a host of antibiotics have been developed to fight bacteria but in the battle against viral infections we are still largely dependent on the body 's imperfect natural defences . |
| 10 | Antibiotics have been used to treat acne for over 30 years and are still widely prescribed . |
| 11 | But many have been chased away by local anglers and cars have been vandalised to deter poachers . |
| 12 | I have found full cupboards and empty ones , children with books and children without ; schools and classrooms where the resources of the community have been mobilised , where well stocked classroom shops have been organised using packets , wrappers and tins collected by children , where great varieties of natural and man-made objects have been collected for children 's use in science and mathematics — and schools with none of these things . |
| 13 | The questions at the end of each chapter have been designed to assist students to test that the reading has been understood before moving on to the next chapter . |
| 14 | While newspapers have been asking whether the monarchy will last much longer , her subjects have been rushing to place bets that it wo n't . |
| 15 | Novell will also announce that its Unix TCP/IP-based connectivity products LANworkplace and NetWare NFS have been extended to include support for OS/2 and Apple Macs . |
| 16 | Edmund has always loved and seen Fanny as a sister and now that his eyes have been widened to see Mary Crawford 's actual character he looks at Fanny now as his future wife . |
| 17 | Other ZNF proteins have been shown to bind DNA at specific promoter sites ( 40,41 ) , and they probably act by regulating gene activity ( 42-44 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've had two confirmed incidents when Serbian aircraft have been used to bomb enemy positions , ’ the Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , said in London . |
| 19 | Ovaries from aborted human fetuses have been shown to have cells in the pachytene stage during weeks 16–23 of gestation ( 25 ) . |
| 20 | Since then funds have been raised to finance restoration |
| 21 | Police officers investigating the case have n't ruled out the possibility that the missing funds have been used to buy supplies for the refugees . |
| 22 | Funds have been allocated to facilitate workplace reform and the unions in Western Australia have put forward a job redesign package as part of their current wage discussions . |
| 23 | ‘ Many months have been spent gathering information and recording activities . |
| 24 | Also , specific DH sites have been used to pinpoint elements , not necessarily sequenced or with a known function , that appear to control the accessibility of chromatin domains to trans-acting regulatory factors , again even before a gene is expressed ( 22-24 ) . |
| 25 | These have often been directly linked to LMS work , but in some schools new posts have been created to assist teachers in preparing and typing teaching materials and reports . |
| 26 | The problems for discussion and solving have been designed to encourage students to discuss the issues before attempting to answer the technical side of the problem . |
| 27 | Backed by high-profile advertising campaigns , Cellnet 's Lifetime and Vodafone 's LowCall have been launched to tempt nonbusiness users . |
| 28 | It is often difficult to assess the colour vision of mammals , and some which were thought to see in monochrome have been shown to have sensitivity to colour . |
| 29 | To take two extreme examples , while Third World countries have been pressured to dismantle barriers against imports in the 1970s and 1980s , the United States and the European Community have built and maintained high protective walls against agricultural imports . |
| 30 | It seems that this trend will continue , and many African countries have been forced to accept democracy to foster economic and political justice for all . ’ |