Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statutory provisions embodying the CICS have been enacted , but at the time of writing they had not been brought into force . |
| 2 | The Becks have been digging up and potting plants for months now . |
| 3 | The three Masses and the Gradualia have been championed a great deal in recent years , sometimes meshed with one another in the ‘ liturgical reconstruction ’ manner , although there are reasons for believing that Byrd did not have that in mind . |
| 4 | It might have served as a link between Britain and the Six , but it was not until after its first application to join the EEC had been rejected in 1963 that Britain began seriously to consider this as a possibility . |
| 5 | Benelux in particular objected to the vigour with which de Gaulle and France were pushing the Fouchet Plan , and argued that fundamental decisions such as those raised by the plan should be deferred until at least the question of British membership of the EEC had been resolved . |
| 6 | The three potential entrants to the EEC have been characterised by the European Commission as having economies at a stage of development midway between the developing and the industrialised countries . |
| 7 | From at least the middle of the seventh century the Macedonians had been ruled by kings , whose relationship to their subjects was basically feudal , resting on loyalty and consent : they ruled ‘ by law and not by force ’ , as Arrian says ( Anab . |
| 8 | Towards the close of the century , large tracts of the Highlands had been surveyed but little or no attention had been paid to the islands . |
| 9 | Sixty years later , there was an understanding of every formation in Scotland ; much of the Highlands had been surveyed in detail unmatched in any other comparable area of crystalline rock , and a host of new geological phenomena discovered . |
| 10 | Once an imposing villa , the Roma has been converted into a charming little hotel . |
| 11 | The IPCC had been set up under United Nations auspices following the November 1988 world climate conference [ see p. 36784 ] and was due to meet again in August 1990 in Stockholm . |
| 12 | On Oct. 10 the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) claimed that the RAF had been deployed without prior consultation with state governments and that this constituted an infringement of the rights of state governments to administer law and order . |
| 13 | The RAF 's been lending a hand helping to lift a 9 foot curly mammoth trunk from the ground . |
| 14 | After such endorsements from a man who , despite being a migrant from the Mid-West has been transformed instinctively into a prime example of Homo Pacificus , it would have been a foolish and almost unpatriotic American who professed otherwise . |
| 15 | Then , his restoration had been intended as a counterbalance to Warwick 's influence in the north , but in 1471 the Nevilles had been replaced by Gloucester . |
| 16 | Then , his restoration had been intended as a counterbalance to Warwick 's influence in the north , but in 1471 the Nevilles had been replaced by Gloucester . |
| 17 | ( The government had agreed on Dec. 14 — see p. 37108 — to disband and replace the National Security Office , as the Stasi had been renamed in November . ) |
| 18 | And Kaas had soon learnt that part of his duties in the criminal division of the Stasi had been to supply the hierarchy with whatever was needed by way of eroticism and perversion . |
| 19 | On 18 May the Schutzkorps had been moved from Viktring to a new camp near 5 Veit . |
| 20 | The hills around the city are held by Serbian forces , and the Hercules have been using a special steep landing technique , to keep them out of range of the rebel guns until the very last minute . |
| 21 | On Nov. 7 the parliament voted to appropriate the property of both the Soviet and the Lithuanian Communist Party ( CP ) without compensation ( the CP had been banned in Lithuania from Aug. 23 — see p. 38373 ) . |
| 22 | By 1100 , the Avon had been diverted to power mills that were later to become the property of the Benedictine Monastery . |
| 23 | But the Wolfking had been killed and the prince imprisoned inside the Dark Realm . |
| 24 | When a Masai killed a European farmer in the Sanya corridor — from which the Masai had been evicted — in 1955 , it was the shame and distress of all the other Masai which were emphasized by the administration . |
| 25 | Whereas science had been unstained by cruelty , hands in the Vatican had been steeped in blood . |
| 26 | One EC official said yesterday that the problem of fraud involving the Vatican had been understood for several years , and that attempts were being made to stamp it out . |
| 27 | Relations with the Vatican had been broken off in 1861 but Pope John Paul II visited Mexico in 1990 [ see p. 37475 ] while Salinas went to the Vatican in July 1991 . |
| 28 | Diplomatic relations between Czechoslovakia and the Vatican had been restored on April 19 , having been broken off in 1950 . |
| 29 | If the machine does n't try to access the A : drive , i.e. the light stays off , either the BIOS has been instructed , in the set-up , not to seek the A : drive , or both floppy drive connectors are the wrong way round . |
| 30 | But the class and regional differences — linguistic and cultural — of the Caribbean have been maintained in Britain for at most one generation in their original form . |