Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Years of close military co-operation , including joint work in missile development , have given Egypt valuable information about its former Iraqi ally , which has presumably been passed on to the Americans . |
2 | As a result , half of the Saimaa Canal , which links the Gulf of Finland with Lake Saimaa ( Finland 's largest lake system ) , fell into Soviet hands and has since been cut off to yachts wishing to enter from the Baltic Sea . |
3 | It has since been pointed out by Digby McLaren ( 1970 ) that many other groups disappeared at the same level or underwent traumatic changes . |
4 | The aid agencies working there decided not to publicise the report , which has since been backed up by an internal report by Robert Ash , a senior UNHCR official . |
5 | Derek Casey , the Council 's director of national services , said : ‘ A six-man emergency committee has since been set up by the ABA and major changes and re-structuring , which we think are absolutely essential for the future of amateur boxing , are now being made . |
6 | The virus has since been passed on to their children , their sexual partners and their partners ' partners . |
7 | Several placements have broken down , including that for one person in this study ( WG ) , who was returned to hospital at the last datapoint ( this person has since been brought back to a staffed house in her home district ) . |
8 | EASING London 's increasing traffic congestion by means of road pricing has effectively been ruled out by the Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson . |
9 | Easing London 's increasing traffic congestion by road pricing has effectively been ruled out by the Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson who told the Commons transport committee that it would be impractical . |
10 | The first has effectively been ruled out by the odd admission by the federalists , and has been dealt with earlier . |
11 | The idea has effectively been ruled out by the Commission 's clear reference to the need for a ‘ common economic policy ’ , but the myth that it is possible to separate one from the other persists in Britain . |
12 | The history of Venice has long been bound up with a pageant of ships . |
13 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
14 | In tonight 's programme , Laura and her parents discover whether she is suitable for the surgery , which has only been carried out on a handful of other patients and is still at the experimental stage . |
15 | ‘ Remember , ’ I reminded him , ‘ that his foot has only been held up by the pressure of that piece of wood . |
16 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
17 | The advent of mass unemployment has largely been brought about by the destruction of full-time jobs in manufacturing industry : a fall of 2 million since 1979 ( Hansard , 30 November 1987 , col. 398 ) . |
18 | Losing Out maintains that the widening of class differences along a whole front has largely been brought about by the Government 's ‘ success , in redistributing income and wealth towards the haves to the exclusion of the have-nots , and that this widening of class differences is playing a crucial role in the emergence of an underclass in Britain . |
19 | John Prescott , transport spokesman , has largely been frozen out of the national campaign , which is surprising given his adept performance on BBC 's election call this week . |
20 | Observed in uncompromising midsummer light , Clytemnestra looked like something that , having lain neglected at the bottom of an old woman 's knitting basket , has finally been brought out to be mended . |
21 | At a time when football — our so-called national game — has finally been sold out by its organisers to big-money TV , rugby league should be attempting to woo its support . |
22 | have n't got the plan in What has just been pointed out to me is that the er smaller site , that is the one with Oakwood on it , which I 'm sure is familiar to er anybody present , that 's just opposite Skelton Manor and Court , and the larger site was the land to the east of Oakwood incorporating this much larger pond w with what appears to be an island in it , er running right up to the boundary of the conservation area , I think . |
23 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
24 | You may like to know that we are represented on the Wales Access Forum , which has just been set up under the auspices of the Countryside Council for Wales . |
25 | As a matter of interest and as a direct result of our attendance at five of these Auctions — a total of 37 unweaned foals and ponies were rescued , and a small FOAL SANCTUARY has just been set up in Burnley for their rehabilitation . |
26 | That home , however , has just been closed down as part of county hall 's budget cuts . |
27 | But before the idea is condemned out of hand , let us remember that the price of petrol has just been brought down by 18p a gallon . |
28 | This hotel has just been taken over by Herr and Frau Sulzur , and already there is a friendly atmosphere . |
29 | But a compromise has just been worked out between the governor , the tribes and Bruce Babbitt , the ex-governor of Arizona who is now interior secretary , under which casino gambling would be restricted to the reservations , and the tribes would be given slot machines in proportion to their population . |
30 | Giggs , United 's 19-year-old wonderkid , has already been singled out by AC Milan as their top British target . |