Example sentences of "[noun] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOPPERS have been warned not to buy rabbit meat in Latvian markets after 42 animals infected with lethal bugs were stolen from a research centre . |
| 2 | In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops . |
| 3 | SHOPPERS have been warned to be extremely careful about buying cheap goods after dangerous chemicals were found in packets of household washing powder . |
| 4 | Earlier or later maturity are quite normal and natural , although extremes ( ovulation and menstruation have been known to occur as early as six years of age ) are due to malfunction . |
| 5 | Of course , when communist leaders like Trotsky talked about how , after the revolution , the communist state would move the features of the landscape around like so much furniture in a room , they still stood only on the threshold of the environmental disasters which have ensued throughout the communist world as dams have been built , rivers redirected , forests cut down , and refuse dumped with abandon to meet the requirements of the latest Five Year Plan . |
| 6 | The loss of Batty was a big blow to the midfield but the injuries to both Wallace and Speed have been the big set back this season . |
| 7 | ‘ The only cases where heavy damages should be awarded are where the words have been published out of malice , ’ said Mr Robertson . |
| 8 | On the island of Manhattan in the middle of New York amidst all the noise and the traffic and the bustle , there 's a huge stone wall on which Micah 's words have been written . |
| 9 | Recognise that where words have been borrowed in the last 400 years , there are some characteristic sound-symbol relationships that reflect the word 's origin , eg ch- in French words like champagne , chauffeur , charade , and ch- in Greek words like chaos , chiropody , chorus , compared with ch- in long-established English words like chaff , cheese , chin . |
| 10 | It does n't matter if the child grows up to be an adult whose logic tells him that he is n't stupid ; if those words have been repeated often enough , he will never have the confidence to realise how much he knows or to make proper use of that knowledge . |
| 11 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 12 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 13 | That is , once candidate words have been selected , frequently there is more than one allowable candidate . |
| 14 | Where two or more words have been incorrectly joined together , it is possible to utilise the structure of the word tree to note where ends of words may occur . |
| 15 | However most of these assume that misspelled words have been identified , and concentrate on methods of comparison of the word in error to a number of candidates . |
| 16 | When all candidate content words have been assigned a score , use the Student 's t-test ( see Appendix A ) to determine whether the difference between the means of the correct-word scores and the highest-other-word scores is statistically significant . |
| 17 | it 's the way the words have been used that we 're interpreting wrong . |
| 18 | My words have been grubby confetti , faded , tacky , blown far |
| 19 | Key words have been much used in recent years in the retrieval of information . |
| 20 | The selected affixes and function words are represented within the planning frame in phonological form , and , as we have already noted , the phonological forms of the content words have been retrieved from the lexicon : when all these phonological representations are put together under the control of the planning frame , we have the positional-level representation for the sentence , a level at which a specific sentence is represented in phonological form . |
| 21 | When all the words have been entered , the branches are automatically colour coded and placed around the focus . |
| 22 | When all the words have been entered , the branches are automatically colour coded and placed around the focus . |
| 23 | It is fair to claim that those words have been amply borne out in the intervening period and are confirmed again in this order . |
| 24 | Those words have been taken out and replaced by ’ an ever closer union ’ but what is the difference ? |
| 25 | Now I do nt believe everything I read and I only believe half of what I see , but if these words have been uttered by the ‘ poor mans Billy Bremner ’ , then even I think it 's a bit rich ! |
| 26 | Ninety small firms are operating in the Brunswick Industrial Park , a marina now graces the once derelict docks and about 100 low income houses for rent have been built and over 200 flats for sale at the top end of the Merseyside housing market developed and sold . |
| 27 | Duke of Northumberland 's Archive ( Alnwick and Middlesex ) The Percy family and its successors have been prominent in English history since the thirteenth century , firstly as earls , and later as dukes , of Northumberland . |
| 28 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 29 | The formal systems model provides an invaluable checklist for ensuring that all the general system characteristics have been considered when developing Human Activity System models . |
| 30 | As far as possible original characteristics have been carefully preserved , though the wall can not be seen from passing trains . |