Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much has been lost by various people in many different ways . |
| 2 | Sarah Sabin , 27 , who has a studio in Trinity Street , Colchester , has been assisted by local people in creating a map of the area , including roads , buildings and other major landmarks . |
| 3 | ‘ We are worried about compensation claims from passive smokers whose health has been damaged by other people 's bad habits , ’ said councillor Frank Anderson . |
| 4 | The APT has been applied to British data by Diacogiannis , ; who used 302 monthly observations for 200 securities between November 1956 and December 1981 . |
| 5 | And has been imposed on old people of er Edinburgh and er . |
| 6 | Aware that society has been constructed by able-bodied people in ways which serve and perpetuate their own interests , these people have used our consequential marginalisation and dependence not as a starting-point for developing with us a struggle for social change and equal opportunities , but as a handy and convenient fact to justify the development of all the inappropriate disability services with which we are now so familiar . |
| 7 | An elaborate fraud has been uncovered by sharp-eyed staff sifting through student paperwork . |
| 8 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 9 | For three and a half years the Beeson Ward at Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary has been looking after elderly people — those who need specialist care after major surgery . |
| 10 | — it could be used to present language — either for the introduction of new areas of language or to supplement what has been taught by other means and methods ; |
| 11 | Renewals for further periods of three years will not be unreasonably refused where the Data has been incorporated into composite works which the Licensee wishes to maintain . ’ |
| 12 | Underlying this whole approach is the fact that no account has been taken of Disabled people 's ow understandings of Disability or priorities for the arts . |
| 13 | In the past , it has been criticised for poor graphics . |
| 14 | The tremendous emphasis on the romantic conception of marriage and of the wedding day as signifying life 's romantic climax , which has figured for many years in British society and which has been fostered by mass media and advertising , also has its effect on expectations . |
| 15 | The term ’ perceptron ’ has been used by different people to mean different things , but its definition seems to have stabilised by now . |
| 16 | Much legislation to control pollution has been triggered by ordinary people but even if that does n't happen , acting on your fears can make you feel less helpless . |
| 17 | In an attempt to deter miners from returning , the airspace over the Yanomami reserve has been closed to private aircraft by the Brazilian air force and a radar system has been installed in Boa Vista , the state capital , to monitor violations . |
| 18 | Information has been put before young people in tight subject departments : maths , history , physics etc — with little attention paid to the relationships between the subjects and the applicability of their content to the outside world . |
| 19 | If the information has been divulged to sufficient people so that it can be said to be no longer confidential , an injunction will not be of any help ; it would be like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted . |
| 20 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs yeah Shrimp , you got good English ! |
| 21 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs . |
| 22 | Does ’ detailed information on how to judge a school 's performance ’ mean that the system will be the same as our parents charter , or does it , as it sounds , means that there will be an extra layer of bureaucracy , taking into its embrace Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and producing not what has been described as raw data , but information that colours it all ? |
| 23 | The ‘ relevant ’ skills learned concern the ability to plan projects , to apply mathematics as and when appropriate , to sustain work on them until some conclusion is reached and to communicate what has been learned to other people . |
| 24 | Helium ( He ) has been detected by spacecraft though it has such a weak spectral signature that its abundance has been estimated by indirect means . |
| 25 | Whilst some of these drugs may have been obtained by illegal means , the evidence suggests that a significant minority became addicted to opioids originating from a legal source , that is , family practitioners . |
| 26 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 27 | His pamphlet Nothing gained by overcrowding ! ( 1912 ) may have been based on questionable statistics , but the approach and general philosophy proved increasingly acceptable to informed opinion . |
| 28 | At one time — probably at any time between the Restoration and , for a terminal date , the Second World War — those questions might have been rejected by literate folk as quite foolish and empty ; because Horace has been , after all , almost an honorary Briton , so pervasive is his cultural presence . |
| 29 | At the touch of a button , the metallic strip on an identity card will surrender every scrap of information about us stored by any government department , as well as whatever ‘ confidential ’ and uncheckable information may have been collected by secret means . |
| 30 | Best-known to the general public perhaps , are experiments where reconstructions of early boats and ships have been used to follow and thus test the feasibility of migration routes which might have been used by ancient people , such as the experiments conducted by Thor Heyerdahl . |