Example sentences of "[vb base] been [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There have been attempts to attach the origin to certain famous men called Runcie — not least of all the grandfather of the former Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 32 | There have been attempts to protect the graveyards from the ignorant and the malicious . |
| 33 | State newspapers are therefore funded out of public money , and there have been attempts to follow the example of the Daily Times , funded from the profits made out of various commercial activities . |
| 34 | Since the end of the Cold War , there have been attempts to reassess the concept of national security , for example by Barry Buzan , whose analysis addresses the contradictions frequently existing between state security and the security of individuals and groups within the state . |
| 35 | Although there have been attempts to separate these in the public mind , they are inseparable . |
| 36 | From the beginning , however , these difficulties have been recognized and although there have been attempts to overcome them — attempts which will no doubt continue — there had to be a way of progressing while these studies were being undertaken . |
| 37 | There have been attempts to depict this extraordinary achievement as a form of musical consumerism . |
| 38 | Subsequently , there have been attempts to bring together man in relation to his work . |
| 39 | More recently there have been attempts to fit a transformational grammar framework to the written production of deaf children ( Ivimey , 1976 ) . |
| 40 | There have been teething troubles with the monorail and cable-car ( essential accessories in the futuristic world of expos ) . |
| 41 | All six greyhounds have been dope tested and the results sent for analysis at Glasgow University 's forensic department . |
| 42 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |
| 43 | I do n't need a pure instruction type course as I 'm a ski leader and have been ski touring in Scotland , the Lakes and the Northern Pennines . |
| 44 | I know the manner of this same Lord Owen 's disaffection , and I tell you honestly , though I must and will fight with him wherever I may , yet I think his cause not all empty and not dishonourable , and there have been faults committed against him foolishly and grievously , which a man may well resent . |
| 45 | Since that time , there have been changes affecting the Young Conservatives . |
| 46 | They have been jaw locking , tail shaking and they always move around the tank together . |
| 47 | They have been radiocarbon dated to about the 9th or 10th centuries AD and seem to have been intended for use in ceremonies associated with an important priest . |
| 48 | On the one hand there have been reports suggesting that the vaccine can cause brain damage , albeit in a tiny minority of children and , on the other , the whooping cough epidemics in recent years have re-awakened fears of the damage the disease itself can inflict . |
| 49 | In low-risk patients there is no effect of aprotinin on graft patency ; in high-risk patients there have been reports suggesting graft occlusion in patients receiving the drug . |
| 50 | Since then there have been estimates made , but these have mostly concentrated on personal injuries and much of the work depended on the retrospective analysis of data collected for other purposes such as litigation and insurance claims . |
| 51 | ‘ Yes , there have been Garlands running that business for nearly ninety years , but it would have been run my way . ’ |
| 52 | My honourable friend the member for er South Hamms , Madam Deputy Speaker , er gave I thought a a an amusing but perceptive speech about the growth of deregulation , indeed some were saying that deregulation er is in fact the fastest growing part of bureaucracy in Whitehall and there have been calls to deregulate the deregulators er , he is of course quite right that Parkinson 's theory can extend in this area and one can find that deregulation acquires a life and momentum erm of its own . |
| 53 | Even in more recent times there have been calls to make nationalized industries , through their audit reports , more accountable to Parliament . |
| 54 | I know you can , I have been ice skating on er the rink a few years now |
| 55 | So far we have been self supporting with most of the folks who come along donating to our needs , however we would like to make a donation to the Seventh Day Adventist Church who give us the use of their premises , gas and electricity free of charge . |
| 56 | In the last decade there have been strike calls from county conferences in the more militant areas like Norfolk , Essex and Yorkshire , but the union 's Executive Committee , which has the sole right to order strike action , has sought to maintain centralized control over any militant activity . |
| 57 | In the past there have been roads named after Shakespeare characters , famous painters and even Nottingham Forest footballers ! |
| 58 | In cases where there have been failures to make applications to licensing courts in time for them to be heard at statutory sittings , the Court of Session has been petitioned for directions , in virtue of its nobile officium , to licensing courts to hold special sittings to deal with non-timeous applications . |
| 59 | To do this the study will analyse data from a project undertaken by the Policy Planning Research Unit of the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland which has followed a random sample of some 3,000 young people eligible to leave school in Northern ireland in 1984 and who have been re- interviewed annually until 1987 . |
| 60 | Cubes can be very useful for horses with allergy problems , particularly if they have been steam pelleted . |