Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this has been done several times , the actual frequency of reorganization can be compared with that expected , and the future reorganization schedule will be based on the results . |
| 2 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 3 | The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland . |
| 4 | The village is well known for its flowers , and has been rewarded several times with a place in the Britain in Bloom Competition . |
| 5 | In the converse disorder , which unfortunately has been given several different names ( surface dysgraphia , phonological spelling , and lexical agraphia ) , the spelling to dictation of non-words is good , but words are commonly misspelled , and the misspellings are usually phonologically correct — e.g. ‘ search ’ — surch , ‘ spade ’ — spaid and ‘ come ’ — cumme . |
| 6 | ‘ Each two-person team has been given several overseas markets and told to get back as many packages as possible . |
| 7 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 8 | It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully . |
| 9 | A security guard has been shot several times during a bungled armed robbery attempt outside a bank.The guard was shot in the leg by two men just after he arrived in a security van , but it seems the raiders escaped empty handed . |
| 10 | She has been seen several times over the years . |
| 11 | With her was New York estate agent Jeffrey Epstein , who has been seen several times with Ghislaine . |
| 12 | The Jewish cemetery in Berlin 's Weissensee district has been desecrated several times and groups armed with petrol bombs and rubber truncheons have attacked immigrant worker 's hostels , and known meeting places of the ‘ left ’ — bars like Café Westphal in Prenzlauer Berg and various squatted houses . |
| 13 | That significant marine action extends to quite high levels is well known.Wentworth ( 1938 ) has for instance described an example from the Hawaiian Islands , where a block of tuff weighing about 7 tons has been moved several feet fro its natural position at an elevation of 12m ( 40 ft ) on an exposed cliff . |
| 14 | Although the fish has been hooked several times , no one has succeeded in landing it . |
| 15 | The FBI has been summoned several times to tackle problems the local police could not handle . |
| 16 | What you see now has been rebuilt several times , although the medieval foundations still exist . |
| 17 | Nigel Kennedy has been promised several free pints when it reopens in November . |
| 18 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 19 | Though the theory of a third hand — the interpolator of the epitomist of Jason — has been propounded several times — and even recently by Diego Arenhoevel in his excellent book Die Theokratie nach dem I. und II . |
| 20 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 21 | Apart from being broadcast on Belgian television , this interview has been shown several times to the mainly student audience of the association , but the text has never been published . |
| 22 | He is a largely forgotten naturalist now but this book has been reprinted several times and would be worth finding in a library to start off an interest in deer in children . |
| 23 | It has been reprinted several times , beginning in 1910 . |
| 24 | In fact it is probable that it has been repopulated several times . |
| 25 | It was an unfortunate British debut for Thompson , who has been overlooked several times by coach , Dennis Hay . |
| 26 | The intensity of the water problem has been mentioned several times . |
| 27 | The general link has been mentioned several times . |
| 28 | Stress has been mentioned several times already in this course without any attempt to define what the word means . |
| 29 | It has been mentioned several times that tonic syllables have a high degree of prominence ; prominence is , of course , a property of stressed syllables , and a tonic syllable not only carries a tone ( which is something related to intonation ) but also a type of stress that will be called tonic stress . |
| 30 | Mr Diplexcito , who has fought for three years to get a suitable house for his family — he has been offered several by the district and regional authorities — said : ‘ My wife and daughters will be staying with relatives , but I only have the car as a roof over my head . |