Example sentences of "have [adv] been " in BNC.

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1 An understanding of why settlements are deserted and have presumably been relocated can be revealed from an examination of the chronology of the settlements and by comparison with the locational qualities of later sites .
2 Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence .
3 The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion .
4 In this , Morgan foreshadows in a most amazing way the understanding of what have since been called ‘ acephalus lineage systems ’ .
5 But the scenes of violent aggression have since been mitigated by equally extraordinary examples of altruism , in which older chimps have ‘ adopted ’ orphans too young to care for themselves .
6 Three have since been charged .
7 In 1986 the government reversed itself and cut employers ' contributions to the fund ( though they have since been allowed to rise again ) .
8 Many of the goats described in the 30 or so scientific studies that have since been published on the phenomenon ( the earliest in 1904 ) can be traced to those bred and cared for by Mayberry .
9 The natural conclusion , then , is that the basic body plans of the different phyla represent structures which adapted some ancestral form to a particular way of life , and which have since been modified to serve different functions .
10 It was , in fact , the work of his son , William , and Miller comments ‘ I was first favoured by this sort by Mr. Peter Collinson , FRS and afterwards received a plant with a drawing of it made in the country where it grows , by Mr. John Bartram , JR , and have since been furnished with more plants by Dr. Benzel of Germantown in Philadelphia , who found it growing plentifully in shady , moist places . ’
11 Several other salts of this radical have since been prepared , all of which have a similar appearance .
12 I shall readily contribute any thing in my Power , tho' I fear that is very little : But , upon making a thorough Search among my Papers , I have found Two or Three of hers , that were mislaid when the other were sent to Mrs. J … ; which I here send you , with two or three Copies wrote in her Childhood , that have since been alter 'd as they now stand in the printed Book
13 Higher readings than expected have since been found by monitors along the coastline near Sellafield , and even in the dust inside seaside houses .
14 Many were built as focal points of vistas that have since been obscured by trees ; others stood in the centre of a grove of trees .
15 James Chapman looks at the advances that have since been made in diver deployment and recovery .
16 This is the argument of Epicurus the Greek , whose teachings have since been much corrupted .
17 Many hundreds of casts of these human fossils have since been made , and from them we can learn a good deal about the last appalling hours in the life of Pompeii .
18 For many years after the war , these cottages were unoccupied and were offered for sale at a thousand pounds each , with no takers ; they have since been acquired as holiday homes .
19 But when Wedgwoods moved to Barlaston before the Second World War , the place became a steel works , and all the old buildings and kilns have since been demolished by the British Steel Corporation .
20 Table 7 gives some idea of the many Friesian derivatives which have since been developed all over the world .
21 As Buschbacher et al. ( 1987 ) have pointed out , it is doubtful if many of the pastures that were created in the eastern Amazon basin in the 1970s ( section 7.3.1 ) , and have since been abandoned , w ill ever return to forest : they may be permanently covered in heathlike vegetation .
22 The scheme was introduced by the chair of the council as a cost-cutting exercise ; however the aims have since been extended .
23 In Scotland the most obvious example of this — the Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) — is not strictly a local government but a regional organization , yet in many ways it has provided a model for initiatives which have since been developed elsewhere at local level .
24 Other ancient lichens have since been discovered .
25 At the workshop the organisers had managed to unite informed educational opinion throughout Nigeria and to establish a productive working climate in which panels in six areas of the primary school curriculum : cultural and creative art , languages , mathematics , physical and health education , science and social studies met and in the light of the goals set at the 1969 Curriculum Conference expanded and refined objectives in these areas and produced a series of guidelines which have since been used throughout Nigeria at university and state level as a basis for detailed curriculum planning .
26 Moreover , a number of materials developed by the project have since been commercially published and are in use in Nigeria .
27 But in both instances there are dangers of infection and for this reason other methods have since been tried .
28 Commercial agencies for the establishment of surrogacy have since been outlawed by the 1985 Surrogacy Arrangements Act ( M. D. A. Freeman in Current Legal Problems , 1986 ) .
29 Several so-called religious visions of the Middle Ages have since been attributed to it . ’
30 Some of the changes affecting Liphook were announced by county councillor David Clark at the recent annual parish meeting and others have since been confirmed by HCC transport officials .
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