Example sentences of "have [adv] been [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 ) .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It has since been used on many small computers as a means of implementing a rich instruction set at a reasonable price .
6 This car was the last to be constructed without a sponsor , although it has since been sponsored by several firms .
7 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 .
8 However , recent developments suggest that this ‘ Chinese wall ’ will be breached , and this suspicion has long been voiced by many poorer people .
9 It has long been argued by some accounting theorists that business accounts should also include an opportunity cost of capital in the income statement .
10 An underlying hormonal element has long been suspected in many cases of malignant melanoma .
11 It has long been stated on these pages , that the relationship between GIR and average putts on GIR gives the best ( but not perfect ) indication of who is having problems with the putter .
12 Scientists can readily account for physical phenomena such as the tides , but the Moon 's sway over human and animal behaviour has long been recognised without any satisfactory explanation .
13 It is unlikely that any report in the UK would be so brutally honest , but it accurately describes our situation , except that the inadequate nature of our provision for many students has long been recognised by many educators , and only becomes important to others through economic necessity .
14 This view has long been linked with those who have argued that the company should not be specially regulated by the state since it owed its existence to nothing more than a contract between individual property owners .
15 In practice micro-corporatism of this sort has only been undertaken with any consistency by local government and their agencies ( such as the enterprise boards ) or by the development agencies ( see , for example , Greater London Council ( 1985 ) and Murray ( 1987 ) ) .
16 Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases .
17 And there was huge euphoria when the Berlin Wall was , was knocked down , and in a way , we 've also heard recently that the gilt has perhaps been knocked off that ge , gingerbread as , as the real economic truths are hitting home .
18 Yet in spite of its obvious advantages it has not been received with any enthusiasm by the large corporations or indeed funding bodies of any description .
19 Although several European countries have legal controls on such activities , in the U.K. the law has not been extended in this way , though there may be legal remedies in some cases for those who believe they have been harmed by the use to which the surreptitiously collected information has been put : if , for example , unauthorised entry on to property has occurred , or if there has been breach of confidence or copyright , or if conspiracy to commit a crime , civil wrong , public mischief or some outrageously immoral act can be proved .
20 The belief that different treatment methods are needed for and tried on different populations of sufferers does not stand up to critical examination : the stories of those in recovery from addictive disease through the Anonymous Fellowships are so immensely varied that it is quite clear that this population has not been selected in any way .
21 Winners Dog Male winner of each class who has not been beaten in any other class , competes for Winners Dog .
22 In this state it is not unusual for the subject to think that he has not been hypnotized at all , but has simply felt very relaxed for a short time .
23 When you remove the old guttering , even if you find that the top part of the fascia board has not been painted at all , paint it now — after repairing any damage , including any caused by removing the guttering .
24 The education sector has not been isolated from these trends .
25 The ‘ real local enthusiasm ’ has not been generated by this organisation : why was there no mention of the petition prepared by the STPS and signed by four of the five communities surrounding Laganas Bay , the Zakynthos hoteliers ' association , and the local association of communities ?
26 Despite the abandonment of the commitment to full employment and the demise of corporatism , Lowe contends that the welfare state has not been weakened to any significant extent during the recent past — an assessment which underestimates the way in which the less visible strengths of this institution ( the promotion of collectivism and solidarity ) have been undermined .
27 They point out that ‘ sustainable growth is a contradiction in terms ’ This is at the heart of the Green Party 's policies , and has not been adopted by any other party that I know of .
28 The breakage of mandibles of species other than rodents has not been documented in any detail .
29 But it must always be remembered that it is an assumption that body temperature and performance are parallel ( or oppositely phased in the case of short-term memory ) , an assumption that has not been tested under all conditions , and so , at times , might be wrong .
30 This has not been developed into such a standard technique but has been used to investigate both laminar and turbulent flows .
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