Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mr Gresty , whose business has been broken into several times , said : ‘ I am extremely grateful to the Army for getting me out of a very sticky situation . ’ |
| 32 | The ‘ flocculus hypothesis ’ is that a small area of the cerebellum , the flocculus , adaptively controls VOR by regulating signal flow from labyrinths to the flocculus to the relay cells of VOR , and has been challenged on several grounds . |
| 33 | There is very little scope for the exercise of skills by *e workforce , and the flowline layout has been challenged in several quarters . |
| 34 | The functionalist view of the family as a haven of consensus and fulfilment has been challenged from several directions . |
| 35 | It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) . |
| 36 | Ritual has been regarded by several anthropologists as a social event in which pent-up emotions can find some form of release . |
| 37 | Since we included a short article on this topic in the ‘ Newsheet ’ last year , the lid has been blown off several skeletons in the National closet . |
| 38 | This hypothesis has been examined in several studies looking at the PiZ phenotype and periportal α 1 AT granules in patients and controls , and no evidence to support involvement of α 1 AT in genetic predisposition has been found . |
| 39 | The antipathy to any large-scale popular participation in running public affairs , which shows itself constantly in many more forms than those which I have mentioned here by way of illustration , has been incorporated in several different ways into political science . |
| 40 | It has been excavated at several points , both during the early excavations and in connection with the west gate , revealing informative sequences of relevance to our understanding of the site 's development ( see p. 73 below ) . |
| 41 | Thus , where a lease has been assigned on several occasions a series , or chain , of indemnities will be built up . |
| 42 | However , as has been noted by several writers ( e.g. , Ballentine and Eris , 1975 ) , it is not legitimate to apply formulae derived for infinitesimal changes from a no-tax , no-distortion position . |
| 43 | On the building maintenance side , it has been looked at several times in the past . |
| 44 | Recently this problem has been attacked by several companies including DataEase International with its DataEase Express for Windows package . |
| 45 | His likeness has been preserved in several portraits , notably by Johann Eckstein in ‘ John Freeth and his Circle ’ ( 1792 ) . |
| 46 | The Front has been linked with several dubious organisations . |
| 47 | Replacement of the undilatably strictured lower oesophagus by a short segment of left hemicolon has been practised for several decades . |
| 48 | The introduction of some pretty slick software has been paralleled by several new hardware devices ; film recorders , LCD display tablets and colour printers being the most important , at prices significantly less than before . |
| 49 | Baryte has been produced in several areas of Britain . |
| 50 | Elsewhere , copper-working has been identified at several sites which include Brampton , Droitwich , Harlow , Neatham , Springhead and Wilderspool . |
| 51 | The Humber estuary has been identified in several recent studies as one of the most polluted stretches of North Sea coast . |
| 52 | The Walls of Troy turf maze near Brandsby , North Yorkshire , is possibly the most ancient in Britain , though it has been re-cut on several occasions , most recently in 1934 , when carts using the grass verge had obliterated it . |
| 53 | The latter is composed of a penis which is usually unpaired ( but may be double , as in the Ephemeroptera and some Dermaptera ) and a pair of more lateral structures which are perhaps best referred to as parameres , though this term has been used in several different senses . |
| 54 | The change in refractive index of the polymer with temperature has been used by several workers to establish T g . |
| 55 | Waugh 's ‘ senile slobber ’ against Eliot — he as good as called Eliot ‘ a drunken helot ’ — has been remarked on several times , notably in his son Evelyn 's autobiography , A Little Learning . |
| 56 | The award for best British film went to The Crying Game , which , along with Howards End , has been nominated for several Oscars . |
| 57 | A possible Christian presence has been suggested by several fourth century burials in the Northover cemetery , because of their east-west orientation and similarities with Poundbury , but this evidence is insufficiently conclusive . |
| 58 | Coronary vasoconstriction has been suggested by several case-reports but full cardiac investigations have seldom been carried out . |
| 59 | The importance of potassium depletion has been suggested in several studies ( Conn , 1965 ; Gorden , 1973 ) , and in another potassium supplementation was noted to reverse the detrimental effect on carbohydrate metabolism ( Helderman et al , 1983 ) . |
| 60 | It has been suggested in several media reports today that if my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary were free to pursue an independent foreign policy , he would not now consider recognising Slovenia and Croatia . |