Example sentences of "they have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day more young people are infected with HIV — often completely unaware they have been personally at risk — and risky behaviour is on the increase again . |
| 2 | This distinction can be limpid if the artist is directly interviewed , and the interview is verbatim ; but there are problems of evidence with filming and tape recordings , as well as with interviews , since the viewer or reader is unlikely to know how they have been edited . |
| 3 | These qualities have always been present in the metaphors and similes of poetry but they have been less frequent in painting , which in the past was largely concerned with reproducing external reality , with decoration , or , as in the more advanced movements of recent years , with the composition of color and line into formal design . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , in this closing scene , the water hyacinths proceed towards the sea , as they have been doing throughout the action . |
| 5 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 6 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 7 | In the fine and fairly straight title-story of the first collection , a well-to-do Jewish family expels a poor boy to whom they feel they have been ‘ nice ’ and who has repaid them by sleeping with their daughter . |
| 8 | The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion . |
| 9 | This means they have been inspected by a team of professional experts and the standard of their work has been approved . |
| 10 | As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school . |
| 11 | Most pilots do not instinctively look across and compare their height with the trees unless they have been taught to do so , and more often than not a pilot will try to judge by angles and positioning alone . |
| 12 | They have been inferring that applying the opposite rudder has been the cause of reversing the spin , whereas the real cause of this happening must be the failure to unstall the wings . |
| 13 | And they have been in a position to determine the way they are investigated and the manner of their public exposure . |
| 14 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 15 | resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures . |
| 16 | My concern here is with the mythology that has accompanied these advances ; the metaphysical claims implicit — and not infrequently explicit — in the way they have been described . |
| 17 | One man describes reading the biographies of Maya Angelou , popstars on the radio , vegetables they have been allowed to plant and harvest . |
| 18 | The information required will be — the full names of the ceased person , and any other names that they have been known by , including the maiden surname of a woman who has been married ; their date and place of birth ; their recent occupation , and their husband 's full name and occupation , if the person who has died was a married woman . |
| 19 | They have been downgraded in areas like Tyneside and Manchester by the creation of the PTEs . |
| 20 | Choreographers must have been dancers themselves if they are to understand and feel the natural abilities of the body and to allow fur the influence of the techniques in which they have been trained . |
| 21 | They have been joined by a host of small ‘ micro brewers ’ producing a limited barrelage but adding variety and choice in the genuine free trade . |
| 22 | But , in keeping with the decline of the Kentish hop industry , they have been turned into weekend retreats for green-wellied Londoners driving trendy 4×4 jeeps . |
| 23 | Not too much has been done in the mountains , hardly surprising given the length of time they have been dry , but Dai Lampard snatched a great ascent with Mother of Mercy E5 6a . |
| 24 | They have been around since Egyptian times , which makes them one of our oldest decorating materials . |
| 25 | Plastic ( upvc ) doors are the latest arrival on the scene , although they have been widely used on the continent for around 25 years . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , many pet owners are now requesting acupuncture — often because they have been treated successfully by it themselves . |
| 27 | They have been deceived by the plethora of streetnames , bridges , islands , and so forth . |
| 28 | For Norris the provocative sloganistic phrases by which Derrida is best known will make true sense only when restored to the contexts from which they have been taken . |
| 29 | And turning away from calls to battle and the accompanying rise in blood pressure , it seems reasonable for teachers of literature to go on teaching what they have been trained to teach , and what they like , understand , and are familiar with , without also having to take on many varieties of history — intellectual , cultural , political , social , economic , artistic , and musical — not to mention sociology , the study of popular culture , including the merest graffito , and , inevitably , literary theory . |
| 30 | ln his Introduction Eliot declares roundly : ‘ Pound 's critical writings , scattered and occasional as they have been , form the least dispensible body of critical writing in our time ’ . |