Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The visit has not all been work orientated , however , as a visit to Loch Ness has been fitted in , together with sight-seeing visits to Dundee and Inverness . |
| 32 | While there is no official price , $400,000 is a ball-park figure that has been bandied about . |
| 33 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 34 | Keegan is demanding nothing like the £4,000 a week figure that has been bandied about . |
| 35 | As has been explained previously , the value of the Guinness offer for Distillers depended on the relative share prices of the two shares and the Guinness share price proved to be strong during the final lap of the campaign . |
| 36 | The point of making Bilbo both ‘ bourgeois ’ and ‘ burglar ’ has been explained above , see pp. 55–6 ; and the scene in Bag End in chapter 1 of The Hobbit is completely successful as comedy . |
| 37 | Our policy of maximising US dollar debt has been explained above . |
| 38 | The constitutional position of the police has been explained clearly and concisely by David Regan in his pamphlet Are the Police under Control ? : |
| 39 | If the relationship between two variables disappears when a prior variable is controlled , the original effect has been explained away . |
| 40 | Britain 's loss of overseas markets has been explained largely in terms of the qualitative factors such as design and poor delivery , to which reference has been made [ Caves , 1968 ; Stout , 1976 ] . |
| 41 | The enforcement behaviour of regulatory agencies has been explained most frequently in terms of ‘ capture ’ theory , according to which an agency is co-opted by those it seeks to regulate , incorporating and reflecting their concerns into its decision making in the interests of stability and self-preservation ( e.g. Selznick , 1966 ) . |
| 42 | As has been explained earlier , if the grounds of referral are denied by either parents or children , then the Panel has two choices . |
| 43 | Records on the prime data track , as has been explained earlier , may each cause a full revolution to be lost if they can not be processed during the time the inter-record gap is traversed . |
| 44 | A recruitment committee is to be formed to provide jobs for players and Greville Edwards has been invited back as a commission-only commercial manager to revive the sponsorship and hospitality income . |
| 45 | Oh that was she was supposed to come today , but she phoned up last week erm she is gon na come but I do n't think that a date has been arranged yet . |
| 46 | As a result of the seminar , a private meeting with senior officials from the Department of Transport and the Office of Fair Trading has been arranged so that some of the ideas discussed can be perused further . |
| 47 | Although the term ‘ untrainable ’ may still be found in official classifications of mental handicap to describe the profoundly handicapped , it has been recognised officially since 1971 that no child is ineducable . |
| 48 | This was probably due to the stimulation of mucosal defence mechanisms and to the increase in mucosal blood flow that has been recognised previously and attributed recently to the formation of nitric oxide , a potent locally acting vasorelaxing factor . |
| 49 | Pouchitis has been recognised clinically and confirmed by endoscopy in 30 patients . |
| 50 | The importance of the matrimonial home has been recognised increasingly by the legislature . |
| 51 | It has been recognised how difficult it is to attribute accurately the effect of humans on soil erosion ( Stocking 1978b : 130 ) because of the uncontrolled nature of many other crucial variables , such as climatic change . |
| 52 | Pulmonary involvment has been recognised before , after , and concurrently ( as in our case ) with the onset of bowel disease . |
| 53 | This has been recognised periodically since the 17th century . |
| 54 | It would be nice to write that despite these lapses of judgment , not to mention the occasional maladministration , investors and other stakeholders in business do not have to worry because of the safety superstructure which has been built since . |
| 55 | It is an interesting thought that this whole design has been built up from a series of interlocking rectangles . |
| 56 | The picture has been built up from an analysis of 715 applications to join the group 's management buy-in programme . |
| 57 | These prizes were awarded to students for commendable achievements and demonstrate the close partnership that has been built up between the polytechnic 's Department of Science and local industry . |
| 58 | The picture of cattle stealing which has been built up thus far has emphasized its institutional nature . |
| 59 | It has been built up since 1975 by combining Fiat 's original truck division in Italy with foreign acquisitions : Unic in France , Magirus in Germany , Pegaso in Spain and Iveco Ford in the UK ( in which Fiat has a 48% stake , but controls operations ) . |
| 60 | The Queen of the Night has knowledge of her domain , but her knowledge has been built up by allowing the quality of the dark to touch her , and the nature of its creatures to awaken a response in her own being . |