Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [been] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new code of conduct for street entertainers has been drawn up by a local authority . |
| 2 | As uncertainty about the fate of commercial galleries grows , the burden of showing new artists has been picked up by unexpected agents . |
| 3 | This decentralization of the British population out of the cities has been brought about by a number of factors . |
| 4 | A committee of experts has been set up by the Russian Ministry of Culture to look into the problem of such articles within its borders . |
| 5 | A first summit attempt by selected climbers has been pencilled in for between Friday and next Monday . |
| 6 | The need to carry out ‘ proper ’ audits has been spelled out to firms , and those that do not do so run the serious risk of losing their right to act as company auditors . |
| 7 | The existence of powerless groups has been highlighted even by those who extol the virtues of the Japanese commitment to consensus . |
| 8 | The situation at the moment in the field of research in homoeopathy is that much encouraging and interesting work demonstrating effects of homoeopathic potencies has been carried out in a wide variety of laboratory and clinical models . |
| 9 | Plans to dredge the top metre of sediment off the north Cornwall coast have been put forward by Marine Mining ; exploration drilling for deeper placer deposits in buried river channels has been carried out in Mount 's Bay and St Austell Bay . |
| 10 | The current exhibition of his sculptures , drawings , paintings , and designs has been put together by the Museum der Bildenden Künste of Leipzig and sent to Frankfurt in return for the Städel 's Max Beckmann exhibition which was shown in Leipzig in 1990 . |
| 11 | A grim catalogue of up to 80 defects in 23 homes has been put together by the residents in Chessel Close at Bradley Stoke , near Bristol . |
| 12 | Throughout the 20th century biomedical and biological research on animals has been carried out in the University of Oxford . |
| 13 | Each of these Compacts has been offered up to £50,000 to set up a Compact structure . |
| 14 | There were reports of opposition supporters having been fired on in Tbilisi the following day . |
| 15 | He was shocked to find the puppy 's legs had been tied up with string before it was placed in a bag and dumped . |
| 16 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 17 | More offices had been opened up in many countries . |
| 18 | In Ghana the forest animals had been killed mostly for food , ‘ bush meat ’ . |
| 19 | Somewhere , cowbells sounded ; the animals had been brought in for the night , maybe . |
| 20 | Lodging-houses these , not of the ruthlessly spotless kind kept by Sairellen Thackray but terrifying places — even to Cara — where men and women slept twenty or thirty together on whatever mattresses or bundles of rags had been thrown down on the rotting floor , tramps , drunkards , lechers , syphilitics , crude young whores , wan little virgins turned out of charity-schools who would not be virgins in the morning , packed side by side in the dark and in a horrible proximity which made Cara shudder . |
| 21 | Her eyes had been drawn inexorably to the dark-haired , dark-suited figure , so still and silent among the laughing , chattering crowd . |
| 22 | The boy 's eyes had been drawn out by the Soul Eater and it gave a dry , evil chuckle of triumph . |
| 23 | Many of the broadcasters and journalists had been trained either in Europe or locally by Europeans , and many also looked to Europe as their guide to what broadcasting and journalism were for . |
| 24 | The number of ministries had been slimmed down from 32 to 24 and a number of non-party " technicians " were included . |
| 25 | Shards of glass were still falling 12 hours after the blast and computers had been blown on to the pavement . |
| 26 | Mr Hall denied this and maintained his 270 new recruits had been bonded together by the ugly scenes which confronted them each day as they passed picket lines . |
| 27 | Cars had been laid on in advance by Tom Warner 's telegram , and we were soon settled in our respective suites or rooms in the C.P.R. 's palatial Hotel Saskatchewan . |
| 28 | The words had been cut out of a newspaper . |
| 29 | She wrote , with an unaccustomed fluency , which made her sister wonder if the words had been thought up by her alone , that : — it would not be good for Oreste to leave here at this moment since he has been ill and though he is making a good recovery the doctor who you can be sure I was quick to call and no expense being spared but your money put to good use has said it would injure his general well-being to travel in his weakened state . |
| 30 | A court heard emotional evidence from many elderly investors whose life savings had been wiped out by the fraud . |