Example sentences of "[vb pp] have [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | most of the things that I 've done have been on Atlantic salmon and you put in Atlantic salmon and you get seven thousand eight hundred |
2 | Only a tiny percentage of students I have ever met have been to a seminar or a lecture . |
3 | President , congress we should applaud the work of the Health and Environment department at National Office and in supporting this service report we must go swiftly forward into wide-ranging discussions at all levels of the G M B. The publications they have produced have been of a consistent high standard and are very user-friendly . |
4 | On each occasion the items stolen have been of little value , but the thefts are a continual thorn in the side of the cricket club committee . |
5 | Total employment is now almost half a million less than the numbers Mrs Thatcher inherited in 1979 , and more than half the jobs lost have been among the self-employed . |
6 | Is it not a fact that most of the jobs lost have been in industries belonging to the last century and that most of the jobs gained are in industries with a bright future ? |
7 | The majority of systems that have been developed have been for restricted domains and small grammars . |
8 | The rich picture should include all the important hard ‘ facts ’ of the organisational situation , and the examples given have been of this nature . |
9 | ‘ There is no Gook or Kraut or Nip for this war ’ , he writes , ‘ and the only Iraqi jokes I 've heard have been on the telephone from back home ’ . |
10 | Some of the greatest lessons to be learnt have been in human terms . |