Example sentences of "[det] [art] [noun] have been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you , does touch on that issue and refers to the point that I made earlier that that the proposals having been referred to that policy and how it meets with er more work . |
| 2 | No one , not even McCann , challenged what was a fairly high-handed decision , given that the event had been called by a different body . |
| 3 | Given that the land had been distributed to the peasants , Bukharin suggested that without the intervention of the state , that is , the proletarian state , the scene would be set for a ‘ new American-style cycle ’ , by which he meant the development of capitalist commodity production in agriculture with a process of centralisation taking place and the development of agri-factories . |
| 4 | Will he explain why , given that the theory has been abandoned , and given that the poll tax is ultimately to go , the 20 per cent . |
| 5 | As a matter of authenticity , and given that the appointment had been made two months ago and that perhaps Mr Gajdusek might need a little reminder , she took the letter from its envelope while , his touch again tingling , again gentle , he smoothed some cream over her bruises . |
| 6 | Erm it 's it 's erm a further alternative erm in that the attempt has been made to fall in more closely with the county council 's wording erm and yet introduce a more positive tone . |
| 7 | The arrival of the T9000 Transputer threatened to be an anti-climax , given that the device had been previewed back in 1991 ( CI No 1,653 ) . |
| 8 | Half points were awarded ( less than half the race having been completed ) and Prost 's lead over Lauda increased : 29.5 points to 18 . |
| 9 | Only half the money had been taken . |
| 10 | That deadline passed today , but less than half the money has been raised . |
| 11 | the formula assumes that at any er as as of the first of April , half the work has been done on all erm files then outstanding , we 've gone into this before , where er we think that that 's er er a correct statistical way of erm dealing with things , if therefore you cut the number of er files which are going in , then erm , er I take it if you 're cutting the number of stage two files which are being passed over , and that 's the area where you 're most fighting at er at time we hope , and it has a very , very considerable impact on workload for next year . |
| 12 | Almost half the defendants have been acquitted , and of those who have been convicted , more than half pleaded guilty . |
| 13 | On the great curving staircase that was one of the most celebrated features of the house , half the bannisters had been ripped out , and used for firewood . |
| 14 | Professor Dyos estimated that newcomers never amounted to more than between 12 to 16 per cent of the total population of south London districts in any single decade , but that this rate of immigration was sufficient to create communities in which less than half the inhabitants had been born within that part of Greater London which lay south of the Thames . |
| 15 | Most , but not all , of the islanders retreated to the mainland , returning five months later to discover that their island had grown by over a square mile and that nearly half the town had been destroyed . |
| 16 | On the subject of the Pierre Matisse purchase he noted that less than half the collection had been sold but that Sotheby 's had recouped both the cost and associated taxes already . |
| 17 | Inside this place , half the valuables have been sold . |
| 18 | Less than half the area has been completed . |
| 19 | At the time of my visit about half the men had been convicted of heterosexual offences , mostly rape ; about a quarter for offences against children and about a quarter were the ‘ grasses ’ or informers . |
| 20 | Even when the bag arrives five days later , several kilos lighter , half the contents having been nicked . |
| 21 | After this no records have been traced of Peregrine Phillips , father or son . |
| 22 | With this fact duly logged , Brad Doshan boarded the coach confidently but was slightly surprised at the size of the win , which was signed , sealed and delivered before half an hour had been played . |
| 23 | Er for instance look at the doctors ' leaflets , the brochure goes on about er how much the money has been saved for the health council and all the rest of it . |
| 24 | The proposal for such a register had been endorsed at the G-7 summit of leading industrialized countries in London in July [ see p. 38321-22 ] . |
| 25 | No one has yet argued that the attitudes of nineteenth-century working class wives ‘ modernised ’ , although such a case has been made for both young , single working class women and middle class wives . |
| 26 | In fact such a test has been performed to challenge Merton 's contention that there was a puritan majority among its early members . |
| 27 | When such a plan has been lodged it will only be necessary for a buyer to search against the plot he is buying on the appropriate form for a search of part ( Form 94B ) , indicating thereon the plot or flat number " as shown on the estate development plan lodged in the Registry on the " — no plan being then necessary as would be the case if no estate plan had been lodged . |
| 28 | The fact that such a relationship has been established in a difficult but rewarding area is of significance to all staff . |
| 29 | The solicitors for Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council , which paid out £15,000 compensation to Veronica Bland , have confirmed that reports in the media may have given the false impression that such a relationship has been established . |
| 30 | True , they had not suited each other , but supposing the chemistry had been right , should such a relationship have been ruined by the wretched man-made social system ? |