Example sentences of "have [adv] been [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They operate under Royal Charters , appoint their own staff , decide on their own admissions policies and have traditionally had academic freedom in their teaching and research , though the last of these has arguably been eroded in recent years by the ‘ earmarking ’ of government funds for specific subjects , and the need to seek sponsors for particular projects . |
| 2 | The shadow fundholding scheme has since been extended to small practices and to a trial of fundholding for all services except accident and emergency . |
| 3 | Seismic confirmation has since been extended to other areas ( Cook et al. 1981 ; Iverson and Smithson 1983 ; Brown et al. 1983 ) . |
| 4 | In the National Health Service it was introduced in 1986 for General Managers and has since been extended to other levels of management . |
| 5 | This suggests that the whole tool-kit of genes evolved just once , and has since been transferred from one kind of prokaryote to another . |
| 6 | The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen . |
| 7 | The Birmingham School approach has since been applied to many different discourse types : for example , medical consultations ( Coulthard and Montgomery 1981b ) and TV quiz shows ( Berry 1981 ) . |
| 8 | The main Commonwealth case from a country with a common law jurisdiction is Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 , a decision of the Supreme Court of Victoria in an appellate capacity which has since been accepted by other appellate courts in Australia as a correct statement of the law , that is to say the common law of Australia . |
| 9 | This view has since been supported by six other American states . |
| 10 | The control of consumption theory was developed in the 1950s by a French demographer , Sully Ledermann and has since been adopted by many neo-prohibitionists , notably in Scandinavia . |
| 11 | Quicksons has since been cleared of criminal negligence , but the Masons are determined that Ryan is compensated for his injuries . |
| 12 | The Shoe People has since been televised in 52 countries and has spawned a multi-million pound empire . |
| 13 | LTP has since been found in all excitatory pathways in the hippocampus , as well as in several other regions in the brain , and there is growing evidence that it underlies at least certain forms of memory . |
| 14 | Their map has since been superseded by photographic atlases . |
| 15 | It has since been used on many small computers as a means of implementing a rich instruction set at a reasonable price . |
| 16 | This car was the last to be constructed without a sponsor , although it has since been sponsored by several firms . |
| 17 | This view has since been reflected in official commentary during and after the MTFS . |
| 18 | This fresh eyesore bears the ( in Scotland ) heraldically incorrect EIIR cipher , which caused so much aggravation when it first made its appearance in this country in the 1950s , and which , to the credit of the postal authorities , has since been omitted from all their vehicle livery , stationery , and other graphics . |
| 19 | The participatory nature of the project has since been copied by other groups in different parts of the USA and many of the original participants have helped to encourage and train new people in other areas of their own states to find out more about ownership patterns in their home areas Highlander has responded to calls from other groups , and has acted as a clearing house for information and to make connections between interested parties . |
| 20 | It was a positive answer to an appalling problem that has since been copied in different forms by many other industries . |
| 21 | Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes . |
| 22 | Available information about the distribution of various macrophage subsets in the human gut ( Table VII ) has mostly been based on single immunohistochemical staining in serial tissue sections , rendering evaluation of multiple marker expression difficult or impossible . |
| 23 | The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers . |
| 24 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 25 | The heavy work has all been done by countless great-grandmothers and their mates . |
| 26 | Recent film of restored airworthy Corsairs in America is also included , but the main source of interest in this video is the combat footage which has all been taken from official US Navy film archives . |
| 27 | However , recent developments suggest that this ‘ Chinese wall ’ will be breached , and this suspicion has long been voiced by many poorer people . |
| 28 | It has long been argued by feminist critics that ‘ community care ’ is merely a euphemism for care by the family — which in turn means care by women . |
| 29 | It has long been argued by some accounting theorists that business accounts should also include an opportunity cost of capital in the income statement . |
| 30 | and ‘ beyond some point that has long been surpassed in crowded industrial societies , conditions of use tend to deteriorate as use becomes more widespread ’ ( pp. 2–3 ) . |