Example sentences of "they have often be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 2 | They have often been referred to as ’ Rehabilitated ’ cars or ‘ Ashfield rebuilds ’ , but neither term appears to have been recognized officially . |
| 3 | Such persons have usually been given " licence " agreements although they have often been granted factual exclusive possession of the property . |
| 4 | Because they are a form of money they have often been concealed for safe-keeping in hoards , and such careful burial has contributed to the excellent state of preservation today of so many objects made hundreds of years ago . |
| 5 | If those parents seem over-anxious or over-protective , and have obvious emotional problems of their own , then they have often been labelled as ‘ Meadow 's syndrome ’ . |
| 6 | They have often been described as a brass version of the famous King 's Singers . |
| 7 | Discovered and excavated in the last sixty years , they have often been described . |
| 8 | Other , ‘ professional ’ drugs have been designed to overcome some of these problems , but they have often been designed to have even more worrying characteristics . |
| 9 | The referendum or plebiscite is a device viewed with suspicion in some quarters , largely because they have often been used to ratify or endorse decisions already taken or policies already embarked on , as was the case with Britain 's entry into the EEC , or because they have been staged , and the issue presented , in such a way as to produce the outcome wanted by the government which initiates them . |