Example sentences of "have [adv] been [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chlorambucil has rarely been reported to produce ocular side effects , although these are common with many cancer chemotherapeutic agents . |
| 2 | Last month we heard of the New Zealand XV adventure which Martin Knoetze , the versatile Transvaal utility back has since been invited to join . |
| 3 | This view has since been altered to contend that the struggle for education is part of the struggle for freedom and that some demands which affect the education system should be fought for while apartheid is still in place . |
| 4 | Though the terms of the Barber bequest originally forbad the purchase of works painted after 1899 , this stipulation has since been altered to permit the acquisition of works of art at least thirty years old — an alteration which has made possible the purchase under the present Director , Professor Hamish Miles , of important pictures by Redon , Gwen John , Leger and Magritte . |
| 5 | Accounts by the first space-travelling visitors to the planet say that they found even the rocks and plants coming after them , but that has since been shown to have been normal travelogue exaggeration . |
| 6 | This family was the second detected and our practice has since been modified to make a disclosure no sooner than 6 weeks . |
| 7 | The fact , however , that they have designed a language to fulfil these functions does not necessarily mean that these functions could not be fulfilled in other ways , nor that their language is intrinsically connected with them , nor that the language has necessarily been proven to succeed in achieving these ideals . |
| 8 | Coun Len Douglass said : ‘ He has obviously been told to stay away by the Labour group but he was there in a civic capacity and I find it very sad . ’ |
| 9 | Nor has much been done to attack the soft commissions ( payments in kind ) given to fund managers to attract their business . |
| 10 | A disturbance in immunoregulatory control has long been suspected to play a major role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 11 | The tubercle bacillus has long been recognised to exist in various guises and seems able to exist interchangeably with and without its cell wall . |
| 12 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 13 | A pesticide which has long been thought to cause sickness and death in farm workers has been subjected to a partial ban following an agreement between the manufacturers and the US Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 14 | Defective cell adhesion has long been thought to play a part in the invasive and metastatic behaviour of neoplastic cells . |
| 15 | Abnormal fibrous tissue overgrowth has long been known to affect a number of widely separate organ systems . |
| 16 | Ramprakash has long been known to have a short fuse but after a year in the England set-up , it was to be hoped he had matured . |
| 17 | It is a very attractive feature and has only been known to dry up once in the summer of 1826 . |
| 18 | It still maintains with blithe equanimity its opinion that active smoking , let alone passive smoking , does not cause disease — it has only been shown to have a ‘ statistical association , ’ much in the same way that sexual intercourse might be denied to ‘ cause ’ pregnancy . |
| 19 | SWINDLING carmaker John De Lorean has finally been forced to give back £5 million to British taxpayers . |
| 20 | The £6 million Juventus player has finally been forced to accept that the cartilage damage which has troubled him for several weeks requires surgery . |
| 21 | Brosnan has just been asked to adorn a Birmingham building with his burnished , living metal . |
| 22 | Her musical career continues — she has just been asked to write a song for a new album by Belinda Carlisle . |
| 23 | A new bridge has just been completed to enable the railway to pass over the new Metrolink . |
| 24 | Finally , a look at Air Domes Ltd. , a new London based company which has just been formed to market the Yeadon Air structure . |
| 25 | In Norfolk on one large site there have been three serious accidents involving falls from heights , and in Suffolk a case has just been sent to crown court after a man fell through an asbestos roof on a farm . |
| 26 | , is also a keen hockey player and has just been selected to ply for Suffolk Under-18s . |
| 27 | Magnesium sulphate has lately been shown to reduce mortality in suspected myocardial infarction and may reduce the incidence of ventricular arrhythmias . |
| 28 | ( Winnie has already been seen to have star potential — Harry Belafonte wants to make a TV miniseries about her . ) |
| 29 | The go-ahead has already been given to build privately run remand centres . |
| 30 | Much has already been said to help you evaluate the importance of each symptom . |