Example sentences of "have be [verb] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some bureaux have been invited in by the probation or education departments or by the prison governor . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | South Korean boats fishing for tuna have been singled out for blame . |
| 8 | The undercover soldiers of the S-A-S have been singled out for their bravery in the Gulf War . |
| 9 | She said people receiving the letter should not worry that they have been singled out for any genuine reason . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | THE glow of recognition will be sweet for those who have been singled out in the New Year Honours list . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Since then , new benefits have been bolted on to Beveridge 's structure and some of these have compounded the ageism of the system . |
| 15 | The chemical industry 's efforts to secure insurance have been stepped up following the publication of a number of European directives suggesting a move towards much wider compulsory compensation for environmental damage . |
| 16 | ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring on beaches at Sellafield have been stepped up following the discovery of a grass-like substance . |
| 17 | Investigations of family background provides some disturbing records but readers of high-class fiction do not need reminding how often , with the help of professional psychology , the distressed have been cheered up by facing past memories of ill-treatment . |
| 18 | The group claims more than 150 monkeys like this have been experimented on at Oxford University . |
| 19 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 20 | Government by minority is usually bad government ; in no truly democratic country could a disaster like the poll tax have been pushed through in defiance of public opinion , wasting billions of pounds and causing misery to millions of people . |
| 21 | Since the much-welcomed United Agreement , signed in 1987 between Robert Mugabe 's ZANU and Joshua Nkomo 's ZAPU , the atmosphere in hard-pressed Matabeleland has been peaceful , and the South African-backed MNR ( Mozambique National Resistance ) have been pushed back into Mozambique . |
| 22 | The Bushmen have been pushed back from much richer regions into the most inhospitable areas of Africa by other more technologically advanced peoples with whose enmity they still have continually to reckon . |
| 23 | The relevant texts have been deposited along with the presidency conclusions . |
| 24 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 27 | Countries like Ethiopia have been fed out of surpluses at little cost , but even there thousands have died before the food reached them . |
| 28 | I have been blotted out from the world . |
| 29 | The location holds little promise , the time slot is unlikely , yet for over two years now the Sunday afternoon sessions at the Queens Club near Slough have been packed out with those who just ca n't stop after Saturday night . |
| 30 | 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 . |