Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] has be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently it has been recognised for over a decade that chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons may deplete the stratospheric ozone layer . |
| 2 | In doing so it has been heaped with opprobrium by other sections of the left ( see Kettle , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio . |
| 4 | The gas is trapped in well-insulated houses and is produced by the decay of uranium in rocks and soil ; thus it has been measured at high concentrations in parts of Cornwall and Devon . |
| 5 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 6 | Cowan , top scorer in his three seasons at Portadown , is out of contract in the summer — and already he has been linked with Linfield . |
| 7 | This is a decently boring contest in which Mr Gould will sensibly make some points of principle and Mr Smith will be elected , but already it has been turned into an eisteddfod of exegesis . |
| 8 | Already it has been considered by groups within the Healthcare Financial Management Association ( Webb , 1989 ) , and at some length by Prowle , Jones & Shaw ( 1989 ) . |
| 9 | Lately he has been working on paintings of trees , large-sized drawings of nudes , painted low-reliefs in wood and a series of portraits of poets in which snippets from their work are inscribed ( Beats Alan Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appear in the show ) . |
| 10 | Mr Bush , a former US diplomat in Beijing , has countered by hinting that when his traducers were fully acquainted with the facts , his actions would be justified — and typically he has been angered by the ‘ personal ’ nature of the criticism . |
| 11 | Just now it has been condemned for supporting Queer City , a collection of works by ‘ noted gay writers in New York City ’ ( this phrase is Chairman Frohnmayer 's own ) . |
| 12 | Up to now it has been run as a cost centre rather than a profit maker , but the Broadcasting Act specified change . |
| 13 | Now it has been replaced by … |
| 14 | Indeed , the system has already been developed , but up until now it has been deployed on a carrier-by-carrier basis at Deutsche Bundespost Telekom and at Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , which has had a pilot Intelligent Network centre that uses the Northern and Tandem products in operation for the last year . |
| 15 | Now it has been made into a four-part series called The Life And Times Of Henry Pratt by Granada . |
| 16 | Now it has been made into a film by British scriptwriter Harold Pinter and German director Volker Schlondorff . |
| 17 | Non-availability is an idea deeply embedded in the Christian tradition of celibacy ; though for too long now it has been seen as renunciation by men of sinful life , rather than as a radical statement by women . |
| 18 | Now it has been acquired by US-based FMC corporation and its businesses will complement FMC 's existing line of phosphate esters made in West Virginia . |
| 19 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
| 20 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 21 | Now he has been talking of being ‘ more in control ’ . |
| 22 | With each passing second he is becoming more painfully conscious of quite how far he has been dragged from the track of normal professional propriety . |
| 23 | So far it has been implemented for the 68000 , 88000 , R-Series and Sparc processors . |
| 24 | Too often it has been used as a reward for political service . |
| 25 | Too often it has been used as a weapon of oppression . |
| 26 | Increasingly it has been challenged by a rival account which might be called a ‘ teleology of the oppressed ’ . |
| 27 | It is argued that whilst this tradition continues today it has been accelerated by the arrival of North Sea oil money and consolidated by the housing needs of incoming workers many of whom desire to own their own property . |
| 28 | Well it has been suggested of course that the people do experience personality changes when their behind |
| 29 | It depends on the breed of animal , how well it has been dealt with before its death , and whether it has been hung properly . |
| 30 | The amazing thing is how well it has been translated to the large expanses of the Coliseum , not an easy place to raise laughs in . |