Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past 150 years our politicians have been droning on about the need to train the British worker to the level of the German , oblivious to the somewhat obvious fact that we are not Germans so can not be expected to behave like them . |
| 2 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 3 | Local folk have been picking here for generations and always made sure that the beds were not overfished . |
| 4 | Consequently , the weft strands form the pattern on the face of the rug which , because they have been looped back around the warp strands , is clearly visible from both back and front . |
| 5 | Individuals have been pictured rather like automatons who simply respond to the dictates of their culture . |
| 6 | The romantic story of the creation of the wonderful gardens at Inverewe has often been told and they have been pictured frequently on television . |
| 7 | The product details have been registered successfully with LIFESPAN . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 10 | We have been influenced here by the consideration that there are a number of discretionary trusts of long standing where tax avoidance was not the main motive in the settlor 's mind when he established the trust . |
| 11 | The differential impact of national and industry environmental forces upon the structure , process and outcomes of industrial relations have been examined empirically for the important metalworking industry across five countries . |
| 12 | Waiting times for outpatient appointments have been collected prospectively in 10 outpatient pain clinics ( eight in Scotland and two in the Northern Region Health Authority ) over the past three years . |
| 13 | The books here have been collected entirely at random , as has been explained , but it is interesting to see that the arrival of the new media is reflected in some of them quite significantly . |
| 14 | A number of these have been collected together by Moslems to constitute the ninety-nine ‘ most beautiful names ’ of God . |
| 15 | Eighteen essays by contemporary artist Dan Graham have been collected together by Brian Wallis and are published under the title Rock My Religion : Writings and Projects 1965–1990 ( £26.95 ) . |
| 16 | Up to the commencement of school life , the major gratifications of the child in its interactions with others have been based largely on the overt and tacit approval of its parents its activities have been categorised in part according to the extent by which maternal and paternal love has waxed or waned as a result of them . |
| 17 | Therefore , to avoid any confusion , the interpretations have been based solely on a comparison of the rates charged for Cessna 150/152s , as these make up about 45 per cent of the aircraft offered for the purpose of basic training or hire . |
| 18 | Some bureaux have been invited in by the probation or education departments or by the prison governor . |
| 19 | We have a great deal of sympathy er but whereas I do n't think some of the ideas that have been floated tonight for a Cornwall and Gibraltar West seat er or erm any kind of link up between Cornwall and any tail end of a Welsh seat we do n't think is practical and I think he 's got ta solve this problem er within the confines of Cornwall being regarded as part of England if not Anglo Saxon . |
| 20 | Although isopleths showing the spread of acid precipitation in both Europe and eastern North America have been cited frequently in order to highlight the seriousness of the problem , many researchers have criticized their use . |
| 21 | Although neither have been cited directly in the text , the philosophical ideas in this chapter have been heavily influenced by the work of Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | South Korean boats fishing for tuna have been singled out for blame . |
| 24 | The undercover soldiers of the S-A-S have been singled out for their bravery in the Gulf War . |
| 25 | She said people receiving the letter should not worry that they have been singled out for any genuine reason . |
| 26 | From more than 80 strains , four have been singled out to be grown from seeds which are tested for protein , which helps them to withstand heat . |
| 27 | THE glow of recognition will be sweet for those who have been singled out in the New Year Honours list . |
| 28 | A number of people who have been singled out by Mrs Whitehouse as playing particularly crucial roles in the process of supposedly ‘ permissive change ’ have already been mentioned . |
| 29 | He is particularly interested in the various features of childhood experiences that have been singled out by different theorists as the important determinants of adult personality : feeding regimes , toilet training , parental warmth , permissiveness and so on . |
| 30 | From the first , our meteorite collecting programmes have been motivated not for the sake of numbers alone but by the hope that large quantities of fragments would include samples of rare or completely new type of meteorites . |