Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Many of the five hundred people who worked here have been redeployed on other sites in Herefordshire and Wales .
2 The majority of doctors are simply not aware of the dangers attached to Depo-Provera and other injectable contraceptives , nor that they have been prohibited in other countries .
3 Slemen 's team have been deprived of Northern stalwarts Dewi Morris , Tim Rodber , Wade Dooley and the Underwood brothers Rory and Tony , mainly because of Saturday 's Test commitments .
4 Five men accused of staging a cock-fight have been cleared of all charges .
5 Stone had belatedly launched a publicity campaign at the end of January , claiming that it would adopt " environmentally-sound " , labour intensive logging techniques , and reforest areas which have been cleared by slash-and-burn farmers .
6 All these movements have had before them as a model the existing nation states , and have been influenced by nationalist ideas already formulated and widely disseminated .
7 Many cultural historians have too readily appropriated literary writing as cultural documents , subduing the problems about what language actually represents which have been examined by other forms of theoretical inquiry , notably deconstruction .
8 Stereotypes associated with black girls have been constructed along ethnic lines , and cut across the more general male/female , black/white images ( see Allen , 1982 ; Carby , 1982 ; Brah and Minhas , 1986 ; Riley , 1986 ) .
9 One thousand buildings have been constructed to these standards at costs of one per cent more but with a resulting 40 per cent cut in heating bills .
10 Copies of the full text of each local law society and ‘ other ’ response have been collected into two files and will be available for inspection at both Redditch and Chancery Lane , or otherwise on request .
11 Usually such inferences have been based on quantitative analyses of single variables — nearly always phonological variables , such as the incidence of postvocalic /r/ in New York speech ( Labov 1966 ) .
12 Although most descriptive grammars have been based on written documents , a few , such as that by Palmer ( 1965 ) , and that of the français fondamental , have been based on the spoken forms of the language .
13 Over centuries gypsies have been persecuted in varying degrees ; but now they are as much the victims of general trends and events taking place without regard to or for them .
14 Collars equipped with radio transmitters , developed by the University of Leiden in the Netherlands , have been fitted to four elephants in different herds , allowing scientists to follow the movements of the herds .
15 Warsaw Pact tanks have been fitted in recent years with additional armour , designed to explode when hit by an anti-tank missile , so neutralising its effect .
16 During June and early July full day HS&E training programmes have been arranged for senior managers and divisional coordinators which will form the basis for communication within each company .
17 Many notable marriages have been arranged at these meetings .
18 Similar deposits have been recognised in ancient sediments .
19 In such an economy , and also in the earlier phases of primitive agricultural communities , the coast and the larger river valleys provided very rich sources of food for small bands of people ; many Mesolithic sites have been recognised in such areas .
20 The varied forms in which status is available have been recognised by social controllers , and have made them wary of too much reliance on stigmatisation : conventional stigma can provide deviant status .
21 The aims of the initiative have been explained to 1,000 officers of all ranks in a series of briefings .
22 The reasons have been explained in several letters to your MP or Regional Councillor on 31 March 1992 , 14 April , 6 May , 4 June and 27 August , all of which I understand have been passed to you , and directly over the phone by Mr Carter on 6 August 1992 .
23 Those that wanted little more than routine audits have been redirected to other firms , allowing Robson Rhodes to concentrate on those with which it felt it could build a long-term relationship as ‘ a business counsellor ’ .
24 Refunds will NOT be made where such charges have been levied by non-bank bureaux de change .
25 The pros and cons of the various procedures involved have been debated on many occasions with much ardour and conviction , and not a little prejudice .
26 These issues have been debated by American feminists like Linda Nicholson , Nancy Fraser , Christine di Stefano in much the same terms already , and there have been special issues of the journals Feminist Studies and Signs on the topic .
27 The identity of proteins which are up- or downregulated during this period are not known , but several have been separated on two-dimensional gels .
28 Since , for example , administrative and financial activities do not impinge on plant records , these activities have been separated on two LANs — they work faster and more efficiently separately , and faults in one do not disable the other .
29 A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years .
30 Claims have been made about Taiwan and South Korea , but tremendous amounts of US aid have been pumped into those countries for political purposes .
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