Example sentences of "has [be] [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Their evidence for this judgement , as with those presented in most of their surveys , was loosely stated and difficult to verify , but the argument has been echoed many times in recent years in Britain by academics and policy-makers alike . |
2 | Again , it is not my intention here to review the variations and criticisms in detail this has been done many times elsewhere . |
3 | But erm yeah , it 's , it 's er good for what it is , but I think this has been done many times before and er I sh would think that everybody 's seen some just slightly better than this , but it 's quite a nice er sunset . |
4 | After this has been done several times , the actual frequency of reorganization can be compared with that expected , and the future reorganization schedule will be based on the results . |
5 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
6 | Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments . |
7 | The world 's highest peak has been scaled many times since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953 . |
8 | This function has been called many times under many conditions , and with a variety of subjects . |
9 | Sun executives say the issue of Sun chief executive officer Scott McNealy giving up his other post as president of Sun Microsystems Computer Corp , Sun 's systems planet ( UX No 433 ) , has been raised many times and never acted on . |
10 | That , too , has been raised many times tonight . |
11 | My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before . |
12 | When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software . |
13 | The exterior has been altered many times and now only the lower parts of the western towers and the main nave and choir show Romanesque work . |
14 | The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland . |
15 | The village is well known for its flowers , and has been rewarded several times with a place in the Britain in Bloom Competition . |
16 | Dieulafoy 's disease has been given many names , including ‘ calibre persistent artery of the stomach ’ , ‘ cirsoid aneurysm ’ , ‘ gastric arteriosclerosis ’ , and ‘ peptic ulcer of peculiar location ’ . |
17 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
18 | Mr Ashdown , buoyed up by the latest opinion poll results , has been touring both constituencies . |
19 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
20 | As has been said many times ( certainly by me ) , it is the easiest thing in the world to write a review of an unimportant book . |
21 | It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully . |
22 | The Government needs to find extra money from somewhere and has been considering all sorts of options . |
23 | A security guard has been shot several times during a bungled armed robbery attempt outside a bank.The guard was shot in the leg by two men just after he arrived in a security van , but it seems the raiders escaped empty handed . |
24 | The reaction of governments has been to resist such initiatives and view them as threats . |
25 | It has been seen many times since then , and many of the Baskervilles have died in strange and terrible ways . |
26 | She has been seen several times over the years . |
27 | With her was New York estate agent Jeffrey Epstein , who has been seen several times with Ghislaine . |
28 | He has been challenged many times on the weak link in his case , which is that since American firms are free to relocate to Mexico , a trade agreement is the best way to make sure that American interests are protected . |
29 | I am by training and profession an historian ; my role has been to collect these documents , to present and elucidate them , to attempt to show their meaning and limitations , according to traditional historical methods . |
30 | The Earth has been visited many times in its history , but it 's all been covered up . |