Example sentences of "they have [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them have not been found guilty , and albeit they have been charged with horrendous crimes they are still innocent people and it does n't matter even if they are not innocent people , the Government still has a responsibility to life and limb and really I ca n't see any case at all for not storming . |
| 2 | After all , people have always wanted to do violence to those who stood in their way when they were attempting to commit robberies ; but they have been bound by certain conventions of which they were unaware . |
| 3 | Side cutters are useful for cutting both cable and flex to length , and for trimming cores neatly when they have been connected to terminals . |
| 4 | This tells me they have been connected with wickedness . ’ |
| 5 | I assume that people are put on the list if they have been connected with an offence relating to prostitution or have been cautioned . |
| 6 | During the past decade the poverty stricken countries of the South have been paying far more money to the rich North than they have been receiving in new money . |
| 7 | The majority of doctors are simply not aware of the dangers attached to Depo-Provera and other injectable contraceptives , nor that they have been prohibited in other countries . |
| 8 | It becomes difficult then to adduce abstract principles which should have a life of their own , quite apart from whether they have been exemplified within history , which may be used to judge history . |
| 9 | Mistakenly supposing that their moral beliefs are innately given , people are liable to continue to accept what they have been taught as young children . |
| 10 | They do not forget what they have been taught in the past , and as long as their basic work is kept up to scratch ( i.e. suppleness on each rein , general willingness to work , and obedience ) , the rest falls into place . |
| 11 | Storage is one stumbling block , hooks quickly deteriorate once they have been exposed to saltwater spray . |
| 12 | Such terrors are more likely to affect foals and yearlings because they have been exposed to fewer objects and experiences . |
| 13 | It creates a sense of well-being so attractive that few can resist using it if they have been exposed to it too often . |
| 14 | Personality disorder is the parental diagnosis most associated with emotional and behavioural disorders in children , particularly when they have been exposed to hostile behaviour . |
| 15 | Just because they have been disowned by Labour has not stopped them hitching their star to its bandwagon . |
| 16 | These thought processes can be brought into use at will once they have been transferred into faith in the Created God . |
| 17 | They have been inspired by a reverence for the so-called ‘ feminine ’ , an essentially patriarchal construct which participates in the whole Madonna/whore syndrome . |
| 18 | The famous late figurine of a goddess found in a small rural shrine at Gazi wears a diadem embellished with three carefully depicted poppy seed-heads , and they have been cut as if for the extraction of opium . |
| 19 | Over the years they have been inducted into the Maori nation in New Zealand , a rare honour , have packed soccer stadiums in Uruguay and Chile which make Wembley look like a park pitch and have successfully led the way for numerous reggae bands to grab a slice of the American popular music market . |
| 20 | Our ties with them still matter , though they have been weakened by Australasia 's dependence on the United States for security and by our entry into the EEC . |
| 21 | It is perhaps worth taking a minute or two to invite the Secretary of State to answer those arguments in his reply and to explain how they have been overcome in the new council tax system . |
| 22 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 23 | They have been developed under an article ( Article 118A ) specially added to the Treaty of Rome for this purpose . |
| 24 | Although they have been developed for acrylic painters , I 'm sure they are ideal for oil painters too , as they can be cleaned in turpentine overnight , then used for acrylic painting the very next day . |
| 25 | Large , brightly coloured and apparently celebratory , they have been developed from the découpages of Matisse , but are , on closer inspection , altogether less tasteful , with their short , smutty messages lifted from the scribble of a toilet door . |
| 26 | The size of the waves is governed largely by the time during which they have been moving under the influence of the-wind . |
| 27 | They have been thinking about the long-term future and have concluded that it will be very difficult to impose nuclear weapons on a population that is generally opposed to them . |
| 28 | They have been joined by a host of small ‘ micro brewers ’ producing a limited barrelage but adding variety and choice in the genuine free trade . |
| 29 | Though it used to be thought that internationalism was the preserve of the large , private corporation , today they have been joined by small firms and many state enterprises . |
| 30 | Many of these pioneer voluntary bodies still exist , and they have been joined by large numbers of organizations that have arisen in recent years to tackle the needs of particular groups among the disabled , so that voluntary effort continues to play a major part in meeting the needs of the handicapped . |