Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That might well have been true in the early 1960s but not in the 1990s , so let us not revive a distinction which has thankfully been eliminated All kinds of research in education have gone far beyond this narrow form . |
| 2 | The fishermen were so concerned for its welfare that they closed the lake for the remainder of the season , and the fish has since been spotted several times , fully recovered . |
| 3 | Earth tremors caused structural damage in Angra village in 1988 but the nuclear plant 's operators , state-owned Furnas Centrais Electricas , denied that the reactor had been damaged , although it has since been closed several times for " repairs " . |
| 4 | Although folk-dance is embedded in their way of life , ballet has long been regarded much as the diplomatic service is in Britain : good money , plenty of respect and no political controversies . |
| 5 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 6 | What has perhaps been accorded less attention has been the ways in which policy and implementation have involved a feedback from implementation as policies have been found inadequate to meet the demands of ‘ good professional practice ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Over the past hundred years there has never been a real commitment to the formation of a contemporary art collection and the cost of establishing one has not been given much thought ’ , says Corral . |
| 8 | An approach to the examination of social policy has been introduced here that has not been given much explicit attention in relation to the study of specific policies . |
| 9 | The current exercise has been no exception and the task has not been made any easier by the current level of economic uncertainty and its implications for the future size and structure of employment and unemployment at the end of the plan period . |
| 10 | The workers ' faith has not been repaid this week — in a region which had escaped many of the severe job cuts which had hit other cities . |
| 11 | One element — that of the private mines — has not been mentioned this evening . |
| 12 | Indeed , the committee submits that ‘ throughout our aim has not been to advance any particular viewpoint , but simply to identify the relevant facts . |
| 13 | Our intention has not been to present any firm typology so much as to indicate the possibilities for variations in visionary style , and to map out some important dimensions of visionary leadership . |
| 14 | The objections to assessing whether the hearing would have made a difference are not confined to those expressed by Megarry J. A superior court in the context of review is not in a good position to calculate whether a hearing would have made a difference , and to do so could well leave the individual with the feeling that he has not been afforded any opportunity of controverting the public body 's view . |
| 15 | Long-awaited consultation from the Scottish Office on the inspection of social work services has just been published this week . |
| 16 | As has already been indicated this considerable additional development of land was happening while manufacturing employment was falling . |
| 17 | The point has already been made that industry here can include nationally or internationally orientated services like DHSS Longbenton . |
| 18 | Alistair Clarke of Christie 's furniture department expressed satisfaction that the market had held up in the light of the considerable quantity of important French furniture which has already been offered this season . |
| 19 | In fact , the only one not now in profit is fertilizers , and strong action has already been taken that Lindsell is confident will lead to renewed health in this remaining problem area over the next two or three years . |
| 20 | User has already been passed this SPR |
| 21 | Around £2,000 of the target figure has already been banked much of it following the fund raising activities of Albert 's colleagues . |
| 22 | The possibility of claiming that you have been constructively dismissed has already been mentioned several times . |
| 23 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 24 | It is difficult to see why it has ever been supposed otherwise-that generality and number in themselves somehow fight with causation sensibly conceived . |
| 25 | It is only when everything else has genuinely been tried that divorce can ever be contemplated . |
| 26 | ‘ It has always been done this way ’ is poor reason unless one knows why . |
| 27 | It has always been noticed that information technology skills , of which we shall need more and more in the coming years , have tended to lag behind the demand for those skills . |
| 28 | Education in Britain has always been considered some of the best in the world . |
| 29 | The sociology of Freud is built on his analysis of instincts , and has usually been given little serious consideration within sociology precisely because the concept of instinct is thought to be unsociological . |
| 30 | There is real gratitude in the eyes of the lady whose life has probably been saved that night . |