Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to my knowledge the first time that an ‘ in-depth ’ feature has been written about their service with the RAF and brought back many poignant memories for me for I was , to quote your September issue , ‘ one of the batch of National Service gunners posted to RAF Coningsby ’ . |
| 2 | Well the only thing is that I hope that the next generation that is coming along now will appreciate what has been done for their generation because it took a long time for us to get what we wanted for our children and now with our grandchildren are coming along I hope the town will improve with their growth . |
| 3 | What research has been done on their effects , especially in the United States , suggests that their importance is primarily as a reinforcing rather than a realigning agent . |
| 4 | Senior managers , on the other hand , mindful of the resource implications of the assessment responsibility which has been placed on their departments , may be looking for systems which will contain within manageable resource limits the potentially very high assessment workload for their staff . |
| 5 | Yet nothing of this sophistication has been transmitted to their flock . |
| 6 | The question has been raised over their qualifications and whether the Coastguard should have been informed of the expedition in advance , but it seems there was nothing exceptional in the fact that a school party was canoeing in the open sea . |
| 7 | Of course there are increasing numbers of hungry children in Peru who stare mistrustfully at camera-laden gringos ( white tourists ) , but your front cover does nothing towards providing an image of either the anger and creativity of Peruvian people , nor the barbaric economic situation that has been imposed upon their country by the current world economic order , both of which are well described within the issue . |
| 8 | The consequent problems are seen at every stage of subsequent development as the parents struggle to learn signing because their children were not ‘ good enough ’ to progress normally , and as the children have to come to terms not only with deafness but with the community of deaf people which has been shunned by their families . |
| 9 | The third high-risk group comprises manual workers without hobbies and interests , whose entire social contact has been based on their workplace . |
| 10 | Arsenal 's goalless home draw with negative Ipswich illustrated how badly their confidence has been affected by their strikers ' failure to convert of the strikers to manufacture enough scoring chances — and Graham looks ready to go back to basics . |
| 11 | Her career has been affected by their desire , as a family , to stay in Cornwall . |
| 12 | The family has been offered £6 worth of vouchers by the company , but say they wo n't be happy until their son has been compensated to their satisfaction for his suffering . |
| 13 | Indeed , many carers do n't identify themselves as such , partly because this particular job description has been coined on their behalf and many do n't even know what it means : |
| 14 | Uprights are traditional British favourites and are even more popular now that storage for all the extras has been integrated into their design . |
| 15 | Croatia 's acceptance follows on from the recent announcement that the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania has been reinstated to their former status as full members , a status that they enjoyed prior to the outbreak of the second world war . |
| 16 | Cummins was the West Indies ' leading wicket-taker in the World Cup and he has been selected for their squad to tour Australia this winter . |
| 17 | The Polish government has promised not to send them home , but no deal has been reached for their resettlement . |
| 18 | The ‘ proletarianization ’ of such groups has been stimulated by their rapid post-war growth , and because they are directly employed by large corporations or the state . |
| 19 | But Claude Cohn-Casson has been subsumed by their physical selves , right here in the room , as sexy as hell . |
| 20 | The research which has been conducted on their parenting and its outcomes for their children has often been flawed and equivocal . |
| 21 | They are irrelevant except as witnesses of the power and to carry joint responsibility for what has been decided without their help . |
| 22 | Much has been written about the subject in terms of the various packages , both actually available and merely promised , but remarkably little has been conveyed about their actual usefulness for the businessman . |
| 23 | But the young wife has been charmed by their singing , and when her husband is out she calls them back ; unfortunately the husband returns inopportunely . |
| 24 | They also point out that no action has been taken against their bowlers by any of England 's leading umpires . |
| 25 | Evidence has been taken from their homes , including Kevin 's house in Oxfordshire . |
| 26 | ‘ There is a complaint that there is a breach of copyright by dint of a short extract from Randolph 's book which has been inserted in their manifesto . ’ |
| 27 | Glass vessels are the product of an entirely different technology , and again most research has been directed towards their typology ( Harden 1956b ; 1978 ) . |
| 28 | There are houses and landscapes too whose significance has been augmented by their enduring connections with literary imagination . |
| 29 | The world 's Number One Abba fan , Henry Rollins , has been informed of their home address . |
| 30 | The Left in the Labour Party use the House to register their protests against Right-wing members and measures , whichever party is in power , though many of them consider that once this is done on the floor of the House and the outside public has been informed of their dissent , they will support their leaders in committee and in the division lobbies . |