Example sentences of "[pron] has be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are delighted to have created this prestigious exhibition which has been well received and enjoyed by so many visitors . ’ |
| 2 | The criterion-referencing of assessments is not an essential feature of graded tests , but it is an approach which has been strongly recommended because it is intended to make clearer the targets which pupils need to aim for and to provide information on achievements for parents , teachers and employers . |
| 3 | Mr Sloan believes the thieves were probably working for someone who has bought a similar Mercedes which has been badly damaged or written off . |
| 4 | This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation . |
| 5 | A parallel trend which has been widely perceived but less well documented is that of increasing numbers of authors per article . |
| 6 | It is hard to see how some of this work could practicably have been carried out without computer aid ; for example , the input to the analysis of on versus tu/vous realizations of the indefinite personal pronoun was ‘ 4,300 tokens , each one of which has been carefully studied as to its syntactic and discursive role … ’ |
| 7 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 8 | Another high performance Swan which has been constantly improved and upgraded . |
| 9 | She has been hopelessly sentimentalized and hopelessly magicalized by tradition , with the result that Christian feminism has come to be uncomfortable with her . |
| 10 | If company B writes a program independently and , by chance , it turns out to be very similar to a program written by company A , there is no infringement of copyright because there has been neither copying nor adaptation of A's program and both A and B will have a copyright in their respective programs . |
| 11 | ‘ There has been much talk that Rangers have the title sewn up but we still have 58 points to play for and that makes it ludicrously premature to suggest that the destination of the title is cut and dried , ’ said Brady . |
| 12 | UNDERSTANDABLY there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the demise of West Malling ( West Malling Lament , October issue , et al ) but I am amazed that the people most affected by its loss made no attempt to save it from destruction . |
| 13 | He has been so occupied since before his first book was published ; in season and out of season , through thick and thin , and always with the certitude that his views , his perceptions , would prevail : a catalyst and an agitator of the first order . |
| 14 | The first because he has been wrongly taught and the second because he has been wrongly treated . |
| 15 | In the process he has been much reviled and much praised . |
| 16 | ‘ However much analogy may lead us to conjecture the universal prevalence of law and orderly sequence , it has been acutely remarked that the phenomena which are most immediately important to the life and welfare of man are precisely those which he has never been , and probably never will be , able to reduce to a scientific calculation . |
| 17 | But perhaps worst of all , it has been clearly demonstrated that while a change in attitudes to a brand or product can precede a purchase of that brand , it can equally well follow the purchase : does attitude change influence a purchase , or does it merely result from it ? — since people often feel the need to justify a purchase , especially a major purchase , after they have made it . |
| 18 | In the United States it has been clearly demonstrated that they do . |
| 19 | However , the latter point fails to take account of the fact that rape is committed even if there is no ejaculation , and even if the woman is infertile , and it has been strongly argued that ‘ penetration involving the penis , vagina or anus is perceived differently and regarded more seriously than other forms of penetration ’ . |
| 20 | It has been strongly argued that the interpretation is mistaken . |
| 21 | They considered that a building or product can not be regarded as a complex structure if it has been wholly constructed or manufactured by one person , so as to form a single indivisible unit . |
| 22 | It has been previously shown that the expression of integrins is differently diminished in a chain-specific manner in human colorectal cancer . |
| 23 | It has been previously shown that linear plasmids bearing Tetrahymena telomeric sequences are able to replicate autonomously in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina ( 1 ) . |
| 24 | Although it has been traditionally assumed that Labour Governments are more susceptible to defeat in the Lords than Conservative administrations , Brazier concludes that the Lords have been surprisingly even-handed in dealing out legislative defeats . |
| 25 | It has been traditionally supposed that the language presented to learners should be simplified in some way for easy access and acquisition . |
| 26 | It has been thoroughly tested and no problem has been found . ’ |
| 27 | It has been extensively restored but retains much of its original form ( 273 and 384 ) . |
| 28 | It has been carefully restored and retains many original features , with a beamed ceiling in the lounge and an open fire and superbly ornate ceiling in the dining room . |
| 29 | It has been well said that to say the same thing in a different age is to say something different . |
| 30 | It has been well said that " the bible is never mastered by the reader who refuses its mastery of him " . |