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

No	Sentence
1	Hundreds of bus company workers have been voting on whether to accept a six per cent pay cut .
2	They have been built upon and have adapted that which already existed .
3	This derived largely from fears amongst Latin American ruling groups of a threat to their own positions , concerns which have been played upon and reinforced by Great Britain in the 1920s because of its considerable stake in the Argentine economy , and subsequently by the United States .
4	This has been especially evident in Peru and Chile , where goals have been fought for and won in this way .
5	This is especially so when your goods have been changed into or mixed with something else or when your customer or your goods or both have disappeared .
6	’ … 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 . ’
7	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 .
8	However , it is important that alarm calls have been requested from and agreed with the other person when we are in our right minds .
9	Thus , while most winters produce short cold snaps which have been accepted as part of the normal pattern , the effects of the quite exceptionally severe winters of early 1947 , 1956 , and 1963 have been allowed for when making comparisons .
10	These three conceptions have been subject to various criticisms : that many of the discretionary powers are vested in officials and public bodies , that many officials and bodies have powers and immunities that the ordinary citizen does not have , and that certain rights have been modified by or enacted in statute .