Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition among state-financed institutions has also been heightened in other services . |
| 2 | However , the renaming of revered academically institutions has not been without problems . |
| 3 | The prevalence of this dimension of psychiatric disturbance in institutions has not been reported . |
| 4 | The educative power of our academic institutions has never been lower : it is journalism that gives the lead . |
| 5 | Putting my point across verbally at meetings without notes has never been my forte , which is why I decided to write to the editor of Gay Scotland in the hope that the situation would change for the better . |
| 6 | In this approach the high level of unionisation in Sweden is not the result of any cultural propensity on the part of the Swedish population ( because of its ethnic homogeneity ) to seek objectives by way of interest group organisations — a factor which Adams ( 1975 ) notes has sometimes been suggested by way of explanation . |
| 7 | The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart . |
| 8 | The Government 's criticism of the composition of the pre-1991 authorities has already been made . |
| 9 | The possibility of transfer of responsibility to central government agencies for some services previously provided by local authorities has already been mentioned . |
| 10 | No official go-ahead from the national safety authorities has yet been given . |
| 11 | Opposite The Indian elephant 's ability to manipulate heavy objects has long been exploited by man . |
| 12 | Michael Phizacklea , the Institute 's director of finance , replies : The overriding consideration in the preparation of the Institute 's accounts has always been the provision of information to members . |
| 13 | The recent history of community care projects has not been encouraging ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 22 ) But this is precisely the sort of area to which research needs to be directed in the immediate future of relative demographic stability , because it is so crucial and because our ignorance of future patterns of demand is so great . |
| 14 | Nationalism in its crudest forms has always been the ally of the ruthless operator , irrespective of the context — political , sporting or cultural . |
| 15 | Poorly appreciated during his life and for many years after his death , this period of his work was reassessed by a touring exhibition sponsored by the Hayward Gallery in 1981 , but a substantial group of his later canvases has never been shown in the context of his whole development . |
| 16 | Getting industry to adopt new technologies has long been a problem . |
| 17 | A preliminary account of events up to the mid-1970s has already been given for both locales , which will stand as an account for Cramlington but some elaboration is necessary for North Shields . |
| 18 | However , the SFO 's handling of its investigations has hardly been consistent and it already has set a precedent for the Barrowclough report to be published in full . |
| 19 | Generation of standard useful attitudes has always been one of the main purposes of military training . |
| 20 | In the last decade or so of his reign , approximately 100 mints functioned ( even if not all did so continuously ) : for the volume of the coinage they produced , only a " ball-park estimate " can be given — perhaps tens of millions of coins — but the quality of the coins has recently been very precisely determined : whereas before 864 many coins were debased by up to 50 per cent , after 864 a silver-content of well over 90 per cent was secured across the board . |
| 21 | Four or five ‘ B ’ and U21 matches a season plus training weekends at full , ‘ B ’ , development and U21 levels mean a bigger commitment to Wales than ever — by baleful coincidence , at the very moment the commitment to clubs has never been bigger . |
| 22 | So far the volume of queries has not been large , but this probably reflects the fact that many users get help from other users at their institution . |
| 23 | No reliable interpretation of these scripts has yet been established , but in the Dunadd fort the wording must surely , along with the bowl and footprint , be related to coronation rituals of the Dalriadic kings rather than to the Picts . |
| 24 | One largely unforeseen consequence of rural housing policies has therefore been to increase the relative deprivation of low-paid rural workers ( and their newly married offspring ) . |
| 25 | Some of the technology the group is using such as speculative loads has never been used before and as a result the designers believe the specification will stand unmodified for the next twenty years with only a few extensions . |
| 26 | In footplate LDCs , one of the main activities has traditionally been the ‘ scrutiny ’ of alterations to work programmes or ‘ diagrams ’ to ensure that they comply with agreements concerning continuous driving time , meal breaks , and so on . |
| 27 | Some work on the plans has already been carried out . |
| 28 | The often painful political processes by which feminists arrived at their anti-elitist linguistic norms has already been erased , and the norms themselves have been naturalised . |
| 29 | Its value as support material for a wide range of hospitality programmes has also been recognised ; ot bears the NVQ logo , indicating that it can be of use to those working to gain NVQs at levels 3 and 4 . |
| 30 | Main trends : The continent-wide adoption of ‘ New Mathematics ’ programmes has already been noted . |