Example sentences of "[adj] have be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The group claims more than 150 monkeys like this have been experimented on at Oxford University .
2 Madam Deputy Speaker I re read in the newspapers today that there has been s some criticism er that the matters such as this have been taken on the floor of the house .
3 If a comparison programme of no formal intervention is chosen it is important to establish that the costs and consequences of this have been valued credibly .
4 The reasons for this have been discussed elsewhere .
5 As far as the salaries are concerned the arguments on this have been set out in relation to item ( i ) in question 1 above .
6 Apart from such influxes up to c. 30 have been seen annually , with an average of about twelve .
7 The seven functional categories presented in Figure 7.5 have been derived empirically from classroom observations and for this reason it is not clear how they match up with Halliday 's interpersonal , ideational and textual functions ( see Chapter 3 ) .
8 These are large scale losses and very visible , some have been costed individually and have , individually , cost companies huge amounts .
9 Some have been sighted more than thirty feet in length , cruising almost a kilometre above sea level .
10 Several possibilities come into this category and some have been mentioned earlier .
11 Some have been used informally for many years , subjective assessments such as those made by parents , teachers , and librarians .
12 Larger numbers occur on spring passage , when up to 300 have been recorded together ( 8 May 1951 , Rye Bay ) .
13 Because they have been an important part of some historic eruptions , a few pumice deposits are well-documented , but surprisingly few have been studied closely from a geological viewpoint .
14 Of hundreds recorded from the air , only a very few have been visited even briefly by sledging parties , and little is known of their biology .
15 A few have been turned over to groups in Arkansas , Florida and Texas .
16 Just a few have been mentioned here .
17 One of the problems with fighting the war is that the Americans and the British have been offering more and more arms to the Saudis and the Gulf states .
18 Of the 30,000 who fled from a military dictatorship in Haiti , 24,000 have been sent back .
19 Most are seen singly or in twos and threes , but up to 10 have been recorded together and , in 1963 a party of 50 was seen at Burpham on 30 January , and another , which finally totalled 29 , was present at Weir Wood Reservoir in March .
20 This was probably an exceptional count , as not more than 50–60 have been noted there during estuary counts since 1967 , but gatherings of 60 to 100 are regular now in several places along the coast , for example Bognor pier , and 150 were recorded in the Rye area in the winter of 1972/3 .
21 Torrent and Pastoral have been giving up to 7.5t/ha ( 3t/acre ) , says Nick Matthews of Chichester merchant Bartholomews .
22 Since then , about 13,000 who took refuge in the Prague and Warsaw embassies have been transported to the West while 450 to 1,200 have been crossing daily through Hungary .
23 The problem faced by Detroit 's producers is that , while some new American cars have been panned as dumpy and boring , the Japanese have been rolling out a stream of glittering and highly praised new vehicles .
24 The events of 1909–11 have been given comparatively lengthy attention .
25 The biological corollary of this is that blocking antibodies against ICAM-1 have been shown effectively to prevent allograft rejection .
26 A number of these have been collected together by Moslems to constitute the ninety-nine ‘ most beautiful names ’ of God .
27 These have been kept only since 1822 .
28 These have been kept only since 1822 .
29 These have been gouged out of the hills , probably under periglacial conditions , and their debris spread on the lowlands below .
30 These have been hidden here by a little firm , and I think I know whose it was ! ’
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