Example sentences of "have [adv] been [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objection may also be taken to the new offences on the ground that rape has arguably been substantially downgraded as a crime where aggravating factors do not exist . |
| 2 | He has since been well cared for by Huyton officers . |
| 3 | In addition , the semantic analyser has since been successfully applied to other text recognition applications ( notably OCR systems ) . |
| 4 | ‘ The Man with the Guinness ’ campaign was launched in the UK in 1987 and has since been successfully exported to Australia , Hong Kong , Singapore and Malaysia where different actors are used to reflect local culture and customs . |
| 5 | A fund-raising target of £3,000 initiated on 30 November to buy a specialised bed for the Douglas Macmillan Home was reached before the end of last year — and has since been significantly exceeded with money still coming in . |
| 6 | It has all been carefully planned for our pleasure . |
| 7 | Etosha has long been well regarded by her trainer and her belated debut in the John Holdrish Maiden Fillies Stakes was explained by a long-held aversion to starting stalls . |
| 8 | The remoteness that tourists value has long been officially recognized in the mountains as an affliction . |
| 9 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 10 | The problem we in Europe face is that Japanese companies have been active in scaling up production for some years , whereas in Europe the emphasis has been on high-quality research , which has only been significantly exploited in the area of basic liquid crystal materials . |
| 11 | What they are supposed to do has suddenly been widely perceived as a necessary and valuable commercial asset , bringing substantial profits to UK market leaders NEC , Panasonic and Canon . |
| 12 | ‘ The wisdom of pricing gas at parity with imported oil has thus been officially recognised for the first time in Pakistan , despite being electorally unpopular . |
| 13 | This is no time to hesitate , though , for however dazed , withdrawn , emotional , restless , irritable or distant she may seem , she is as urgently in need of help as someone who has just been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 14 | This duly arrived and the five hour Test Programme has just been successfully completed at the farm strip at Weston Underwood where Midge is presently ‘ stationed ’ She has company too — her stable mate is a Tiger Moth : G-AMHF . |
| 15 | The role played by the CIA and US State Department officials in the 1965-1966 bloodbath in Indonesia has just been meticulously documented in stories run in The Washington Post , The Boston Globe and other quality US daily newspapers . |
| 16 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 17 | Whereas the role of executive princess touring the troubled countries of the Third World has gone to the Princess Royal , there has lately been much written on the theme of the Princess of Wales as ‘ caring princess ’ . |
| 18 | Not only does such an arrangement disrupt the child 's schooling — although arguably it has already been badly disrupted by the child 's absenteeism — but it can often also be a traumatic experience for the child , entrenching the resentment and disaffection which were among the major causes of the child 's truancy in the first place . |
| 19 | ‘ If you insist , but that ground has already been adequately covered by your delightful sergeant . |
| 20 | Hunter sees his job as leading the Association along a road that has already been clearly charted by the President 's Conference two years ago and by the strategy review seminar last year . |
| 21 | The quiet road on the heath has already been coarsely widened on both sides to form a half mile long car park with Pay and Display ticket machines . |
| 22 | Overall the event was a major success and has already been provisionally booked for the same venue year . |
| 23 | The report from the three wise men concludes : ‘ The significance of Super-SARA , from a Community point of view , has already been severely eroded during the years that the project has been under discussion and it is expected that its significance will be yet further undermined before the completion of the project . ’ |
| 24 | The Department of Education has already been severely criticised by both the Audit Office and the Parliamentary Accounts Committee over the overall system which is more than £4,5m over the original estimated budget . |
| 25 | The projected increase this year is a further 25% over 1991/92 prices , and since the Library 's budget this year is the same as last year , drastic cuts in subscriptions were essential to avoid further damaging our bookfund , which has already been substantially eroded over the last three years . |
| 26 | The Irish Government says the 10-year-old scandal has already been fully investigated by the Garda and , unless new evidence is produced , it is now a matter for the Gibraltar authorities . |
| 27 | THE Budget provided mixed blessings for homeowners , but it has generally been well received by lenders and housebuilders . |
| 28 | THE training programme and team-style working has generally been well received by CFP employees . |
| 29 | In fact the justification er for the present policy actually talks about erm the erm , This policy has generally been successfully implemented across the county . |
| 30 | I do n't think rail privatization has ever been really debated inside the conservative party . |