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 .
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