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 | Long-awaited consultation from the Scottish Office on the inspection of social work services has just been published this week . |
| 8 | As has already been indicated this considerable additional development of land was happening while manufacturing employment was falling . |
| 9 | The point has already been made that industry here can include nationally or internationally orientated services like DHSS Longbenton . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | User has already been passed this SPR |
| 13 | Around £2,000 of the target figure has already been banked much of it following the fund raising activities of Albert 's colleagues . |
| 14 | The possibility of claiming that you have been constructively dismissed has already been mentioned several times . |
| 15 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 16 | It is difficult to see why it has ever been supposed otherwise-that generality and number in themselves somehow fight with causation sensibly conceived . |
| 17 | It is only when everything else has genuinely been tried that divorce can ever be contemplated . |
| 18 | ‘ It has always been done this way ’ is poor reason unless one knows why . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Education in Britain has always been considered some of the best in the world . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There is real gratitude in the eyes of the lady whose life has probably been saved that night . |
| 23 | In particular , there will be no change in treatment where the basis of valuation has been explicitly or implicitly agreed or accepted , or the view has reasonably been taken that there is no , or only negligible , benefit . |
| 24 | The Langbaurgh Marathon has also been shelved this year , but the council is currently negotiating a sponsorship deal and are confident that the race , which incorporates the NorthEast Championship , will be resumed next year . |
| 25 | It has also been decided that continuity will be best served by developing a much closer working relationship between Birtwell and the respective Canada under 21 and under 19 coaches , Paul Horne and Don Burgess ( under 21s ) and David Docherty and Doug Sturrock ( under 19s ) . |
| 26 | She has also been painted this year by Howard Morgan , for Unilever . |
| 27 | Ben has also been giving those Yorkshire boys a good seeing-to with an on-sight flash of Kleptomanis ( F8a ) at the Holywood Bowl , a one-day ascent of the Yorkshire Ripper ( F8b ) at Kilnsey , and he got Magnetic Fields ( F8a/8a+ ) first red-point . |
| 28 | It has also been reported that frusemide inhibits glucose transport ( Jung & Mookerjee , 1976 ) . |
| 29 | It has also been shown that cholera toxin and heat stable enterotoxin of Escherichia coli can induce fluid secretion in the rat colon . |
| 30 | Mick Lovatt has also been doing some sterling work here re-equipping some of the older classics — in particular both pitches of Pierrepoint , a classic ( F7c+ , F7b+ ) have been completely rebolted . |