Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields .
2 The general link has been mentioned several times .
3 The extensive literature on the complex issue of social support has been reviewed many times .
4 But already the decision has been given all party support in the House of Lords .
5 But if no decision has been taken either way , then the court should be free to decide on the merits , making the best decision for the future , though of course taking into account strategic consistency . "
6 Her income support entitlement ended when she obtained maintenance at £5.00 per week but only one payment has been made this year .
7 This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century .
8 Officialdom 's response has been to throw more money at the problem .
9 The Government response has been to accept these recommendations in principle ‘ subject to further consideration being given to timing and the availability of resources ’ ( Government Response to Benson , 1983 ) .
10 This function has been called many times under many conditions , and with a variety of subjects .
11 The extent of Michael 's ‘ multi-media ’ experience has been to take some Polaroid shots of drawings of his dog .
12 After a contract has been agreed any new instructions and variations to the works potentially cost money ; if the client wishes to control costs it is essential that any such additions are controlled .
13 Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense .
14 The case has been made that neutralisation is potentially attractive only to relatively minor states that by virtue of their strategic position or symbolic political value have become or threaten to become the focal points of contests for control or dominant influence between principal regional or global rivals .
15 The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute .
16 For neurophysiologists and neuropsychologists , the way forward in understanding perception has been to correlate these dimensions of experience with , firstly , the material properties of the experienced object or event ( usually regarded as the ‘ stimulus ’ ) and , secondly , the patterns of discharges in the sensory system .
17 Apart from being broadcast on Belgian television , this interview has been shown several times to the mainly student audience of the association , but the text has never been published .
18 The cumulative effect has been to remove much of the archaeological evidence for settlement from the slopes and uplands , leaving behind only the remnants of flint implements and pottery and the deepest post holes .
19 So and this doorway has been inserted that close to the corner of the window .
20 Sir Thomas Wentworth was informed in 1635 that ‘ The Justice seat has been kept this Easter week and all Essex has become forest and so they say will all the counties of England but three — Kent , Surrey and Sussex ’ .
21 ‘ I think he has enough talent to have been included many more times .
22 The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto .
23 The two groups on the four- and five-year study programme had been denied any science education at all in pre-independence Namibia .
24 The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage .
25 In another case where an applicant had been refused any access to accounts , the Commissioner 's assistance resulted in a solicitor 's letter being sent to the union .
26 She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing .
27 But , he added , it was his view that while a great deal had been achieved more work needs to be done to complete the necessary cultural changes within AEA .
28 The very words ‘ modern art ’ still carry by themselves a charge strong enough to disturb , dishearten , or even repel , some before they 've read a line or listened to a note of whatever work has been given this label .
29 The lad who made a big impact as a 16-year-old has been ignored this season .
30 The history of the imposition of obligations without compensation has been to push that point progressively further on and to add to the list of requirements considered to be essential to the well-being of the community .
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