Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This is one of the well-established results which Morton ( 1969 ) used in his influential model of the lexicon , which suggests that words become finally recognised when sufficient " data " about them have been collected from the environment .
2 might have also mentioned that the number of scholarships and the funds available for them have been increased by 50 per cent and 500 per cent respectively .
3 I am particularly encouraged by the references to better facilities for pedestrians and cyclists , and to see that routes for them have been incorporated into all the major development sites where appropriate — and indeed given some prominence in the site maps .
4 Long service awards for trio of Terriers THREE part-time soldiers with nearly 70 years in uniform between them have been honoured for long service .
5 They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love .
6 However , the situation is complicated by there being more than 200 CF mutations and many of them have been detected in only 1 patient .
7 None of them have been tested on animals and all bottles are recyclable .
8 Many of them have been printed on metal , as 2 in. square daguerreotypes .
9 Most of them have been painted amid the West Riding fells that Mr Rocke has come to know so well .
10 A couple of them have been turned into erm movies with , with Paul Newman .
11 For , while these theories pursued distinctive concerns , ideas drawn from each of them have been blended by political theorists to create an identifiable body of ideas with certain distinctive characteristics .
12 So far 20 of them have been sent to Dounreay , with a further consignment due .
13 The duo 's first album has Irish sales of 27,000 so far , and is also to be released Japan , of all places , where Kieran 's songs are so popular that two of them have been recorded by a local singer — the lyrics translated into Japanese .
14 Yet Alice and Henry may feel that all the great stories have been told — all the utopian political experiments have come to nothing , even though most of them have been based on fables , myths , irrational dreams and lies .
15 Love admits it will be very difficult for the players , who will be taking on opposition coming to the end of their season and in weather which will be completely different to what most of them have been experiencing over the past six months , though not to captain Bruce Russell , Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , who have spent the winter playing overseas .
16 In the first place , by far the greater number of them have been made by people who have never heard of the doctrine that emotions and judgements are caused by bodily states …
17 But too many of them have been weaned on the habit of chopping up the New Testament into bits ( sorting out the sources , contemporary themes and ideologies of Aramaic Palestine or the Hellenistic world ) so that they can no longer see the scriptures as a sacred text aflame with the divine drama .
18 Large numbers of them have been included in conservation areas over the past 20 years .
19 ’ … if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . ’
20 9 – ( 1 ) Where there is an agreement to sell goods on the terms that the price is to be fixed by the valuation of a third party , and he can not or does not make the valuation , the agreement is avoided ; but if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them .
21 A lot of them have been helped in their careers by stints of time at Channel 4 .
22 Many of them have been failed by conventional medicine or have rejected it .
23 Although some of them have been drafted in an " institutional " style , others have been deliberately kept simple .
24 All reports speak of the satisfaction of the British troops at finding such an unusual attitude , for most of them have been stung in almost every other theatre of war .
25 Their earliest known appearance was at Mochlos , around 2500 BC ( Early Minoan 11 ) , and large numbers of them have been found at later Minoan sites .
26 ‘ Our perception of the problem is that it comes and goes , according to the availability of the salmon and a lot of them have been trapped in the system because of the lack of rainfall recently .
27 Many of them have been forced into having no stake in society .
28 Look no further than the row of foundations — most of them have been used for about a week , which is as long as it takes to realise that they are wrong for your skin .
29 Some of them have been used as an indirect way of seeing the file by parents denied access for themselves .
30 Nobody 's job is secure , but some jobs are more secure , have always been more secure than others and if you 've been , as some of them have been relying on overtime
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