Example sentences of "they have been [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 2 | The group runs workshops where the women watch videos and then hold discussion groups and where they have been taught how to make simple handicrafts . |
| 3 | Conversely , avoid those with a hard chalk in the centre , as these are not ripe and may never ripen if they have been cut too young . |
| 4 | They cover every available flat surface , of wall , shelf , door and ceiling ; they have been cut out and pasted down without apparent plan or pattern , into a crazy-paving of paintings , posters , diagrams , photographs , cards , calendars and illustrations vandalised-though neatly scalpeled , rather than ripped — from books . |
| 5 | PULSARS that are members of binary systems in globular clusters are all rapidly rotating , and it is assumed that they have been spun up by accretion from binary companions . |
| 6 | By 8am they have been joined by over 50 more , and at least 80 vehicles . |
| 7 | ‘ But we are a bit concerned that they have been barricaded in by the Coal Board , so even if they want to , they can not get out . |
| 8 | Mr Llambias says that if news leaks out the negotiation process can be ruined : ‘ You do not announce merger negotiations until after they have been concluded satisfactorily . ’ |
| 9 | Their brains function ; they are conscious and are able to do a variety of things ; but they have been struck down , for example , by polio . |
| 10 | * Horses will usually stand better for the farrier if they have been exercised beforehand , and have already satisfied their need for exercise . |
| 11 | Where prices were once held constant for five year periods , from 1976 onwards they have been revised annually on the basis of a five-year moving average of world market prices . |
| 12 | Although there are only a handful of breeding peregrines known in the Lothians , there are sites where they have been seen regularly at the start of the breeding season , and then mysteriously disappeared . |
| 13 | They have been promised permanent showing : they have been given carefully considered hanging , and in some cases have chosen the position themselves ; their works are set off with surprising poise by the predominantly green and white college buildings and gardens , a complex severe and playful at once , severe in its geometry and playful in its romanesque quotations . |
| 14 | ‘ As rural communities have become increasingly marginal to national economies they have been given less political priority … |
| 15 | The two academics had asked for a grant of £40,000 ; they have been given around £18,000 . |
| 16 | Although the criteria may be unclear , they have been applied impartially to the three extracts , and to this extent , the figures may be taken as a reliable guide . |
| 17 | Saxton Bampfylde tries to be extra sensitive , open and considerate , not only to the clients who are its bread and butter , but also to candidates , who frequently feel they have been ridden roughshod over and hard-done-by in the search process . |
| 18 | The scenes on pottery described above belong to a very small minority , but they have been singled out for their outstanding interest and significance in the study of religious practices . |
| 19 | She said people receiving the letter should not worry that they have been singled out for any genuine reason . |
| 20 | Although they have been pencilled in for the Cymru Alliance next season , Llani have faint hopes of winning a reprieve if a present club pulls out of the Konica League . |
| 21 | Detective short stories are still produced , but they have been thrust firmly into second place , both in the minds of writers and readers , by the crime short story . |
| 22 | They have been sent out together as a result of the recent meeting of the Board of Governors which discussed the selection of sports . |
| 23 | Perhaps if I just quickly point out the main ones erm they have been amended in er , a later version of the document . |
| 24 | These are useful if they have been constructed flexibly enough to allow for complex unusual facilities to be used if required , and thus do not negate their advantage by imposing restrictions on the designers and programmers , Structure should be built in from the beginning . |
| 25 | The angle between the models is in this case preserved , indicating that they have been operated on as if they were a single model rotating about the origin . |
| 26 | The journey , however , proves to be a descent into hell , for Comala turns out to be a ghost town which has been devastated by the oppression of his father , the tyrannical landowner Pedro Páramo , and whose few remaining inhabitants live in despair , convinced that they have been banished forever from the grace of God . |
| 27 | They have been written about in Scotland and Wales , and a fascinating piece of field work and historical research awaits someone in this country who head . |
| 28 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 29 | However , horses have a large range of emotions and , from a biological and evolutionary point of view , they have been built in to help horses survive as individuals and as a species . |
| 30 | Infas said 10pc of West Germans and 4pc in the formerly Communist East agreed wholeheartedly with the statement : ‘ It is the Jews ’ own fault that they have been persecuted so often in their history . ’ |