Example sentences of "[conj] have [adv] [been] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your bike is second-hand , or has n't been used for a while , then it 's important to check that it 's safe to ride . |
| 2 | Section 11 permits the revocation of an authorisation if , inter alia , it appears that any of the criteria specified in Schedule 3 is not or has not been fulfilled by the institution concerned . |
| 3 | The immunities which he does say the Director is wrongfully seeking to infringe are the second and third in the list , which protect the citizen from being compelled to answer questions on pain of punishment ; and these are not concerned specifically with the question whether the citizen has or has not been charged with an offence . |
| 4 | Yet education has never guaranteed employment , and whether it has or has not been expected to , we must also consider the other purposes it may serve . |
| 5 | If the colours are lighter near the surface , the chances are that it is either old or has genuinely been bleached by the sun . |
| 6 | Although preliminary speculation was that the crash might have been caused by a bomb , accident investigators revealed that the plane had nose-dived after the right engine suddenly went into reverse thrust ; electronic safety systems designed to cope with this had apparently failed , and a warning light had either malfunctioned or had not been believed by the pilot . |
| 7 | A number of public sector pay awards have been treated leniently through supplementary estimates being granted , or have even been placed outside the limits . |
| 8 | It is not often that I receive ‘ fan'-letters , and I always acknowledge them unless they are impertinent , or have obviously been written by lunatics . |
| 9 | DNase I footprinting experiments performed in presence of saturating concentrations of CytR , show that the retarded complex consists of CytR bound to the sequence that has previously been identified as the CytR binding site on larger deoP2 fragments ( 6 ; data not shown ) . |
| 10 | All mutant promoters contain single bp substitutions in the region between the two CRP sites that has previously been identified as the CytR binding site ( 6 ) . |
| 11 | The apes being taught are therefore without an evolutionarily conferred advantage that human children enjoy — that of employing learning techniques , and being initiated by their elders , in a way that has presumably been refined by selection pressures over a very long time . |
| 12 | Given the apparent sexist bias of much humanities and social science teaching , it seems odd that it is in these subjects that women are numerous ; it is the absence of women in physical science and engineering that has generally been regarded as a ‘ problem ’ . |
| 13 | It is , in fact , so easy a target that scholars reacting against it have constructed a revised view that has also been driven to excess . |
| 14 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 15 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 16 | In a document that has conveniently been leaked to me , the hon. Gentleman , without any hesitation , contradicts the words of the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) in ’ Raising the Standard ’ . |
| 17 | So an ‘ organically ’ grown carrot is one that has not been sprayed with synthetic pesticides — despite the fact that these are ‘ organic ’ chemicals . |
| 18 | She became close to both women and , although she still saw her mother from time to time and still has a very strong relationship with her that has not been diminished by the divorce , a special bond was forged with the two older women . |
| 19 | But it must always be remembered that it is an assumption that body temperature and performance are parallel ( or oppositely phased in the case of short-term memory ) , an assumption that has not been tested under all conditions , and so , at times , might be wrong . |
| 20 | The other thing to remember is that women who have sex with women may be at risk of HIV infection if they share needles or syringes to inject drugs , or use semen that has not been tested for HIV if they want to get pregnant through self-insemination . |
| 21 | Remember to keep rhubarb that has not been stripped of its poisonous leaves well away from similar-looking cabbage or spinach ; remove green parts and sprouting eyes from your potatoes . |
| 22 | Horses communicate by sound , sight , smell , body language , touch , and also by extra-sensory perception — the learning of something that has not been transmitted by the other senses . |
| 23 | He had ten varieties of carrot in the ground when I visited , including a purple carrot that has not been grown since the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | The stunts gave Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em a visual comedy that has not been seen on television before or since . |
| 25 | The real danger today is not of being seen to condone precipitate separatism but , through the impotence of our response so far , of being seen to condone brutal and barbaric behaviour of a kind that has not been seen in Europe since the 1940s . |
| 26 | Having reached the last four of the Tennents Scottish Cup , it is not beyond them to go on to beat Aberdeen or Clydebank at Tynecastle next month and pursue a piece of silverware that has not been seen in the boardroom at Easter Road since the turn of the century . |
| 27 | For his part , Gould has voiced a degree of scepticism about Europe that has not been heard from a Labour frontbencher for many a long year , and has rescued ‘ devaluation ’ from the party 's dictionary of forbidden words . |
| 28 | Something that has not been illustrated in Collectair in the past is the printed and illustrated match-slip ( or book-matches ) . |
| 29 | This , however , is a rule that has not been enforced since the 1920s . |
| 30 | The rhythm is responding to an external influence that has not been controlled in the experimental protocol . |