Example sentences of "[noun] have been [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general link has been mentioned several times . |
| 2 | The extensive literature on the complex issue of social support has been reviewed many times . |
| 3 | But already the decision has been given all party support in the House of Lords . |
| 4 | But if no decision has been taken either way , then the court should be free to decide on the merits , making the best decision for the future , though of course taking into account strategic consistency . " |
| 5 | Her income support entitlement ended when she obtained maintenance at £5.00 per week but only one payment has been made this year . |
| 6 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 7 | This function has been called many times under many conditions , and with a variety of subjects . |
| 8 | After a contract has been agreed any new instructions and variations to the works potentially cost money ; if the client wishes to control costs it is essential that any such additions are controlled . |
| 9 | Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense . |
| 10 | The case has been made that neutralisation is potentially attractive only to relatively minor states that by virtue of their strategic position or symbolic political value have become or threaten to become the focal points of contests for control or dominant influence between principal regional or global rivals . |
| 11 | Apart from being broadcast on Belgian television , this interview has been shown several times to the mainly student audience of the association , but the text has never been published . |
| 12 | So and this doorway has been inserted that close to the corner of the window . |
| 13 | Sir Thomas Wentworth was informed in 1635 that ‘ The Justice seat has been kept this Easter week and all Essex has become forest and so they say will all the counties of England but three — Kent , Surrey and Sussex ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I think he has enough talent to have been included many more times . |
| 15 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 16 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
| 17 | The two groups on the four- and five-year study programme had been denied any science education at all in pre-independence Namibia . |
| 18 | The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage . |
| 19 | An astonishing repair of sorts had been effected some time in the last century : a young fruit tree was nailed vertically to the back of the panel and held in place with iron bands . |
| 20 | In another case where an applicant had been refused any access to accounts , the Commissioner 's assistance resulted in a solicitor 's letter being sent to the union . |
| 21 | She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing . |
| 22 | But , he added , it was his view that while a great deal had been achieved more work needs to be done to complete the necessary cultural changes within AEA . |
| 23 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 24 | In recent years dismissals have been justified much more in terms of the need to rationalize the labour force in the face of external economic problems which are compounded by Japan 's ageing population . |
| 25 | If , in the original solution , the functions f , g and M have been chosen such that the terms in ( 12.47 ) have already cancelled the terms and in S , then the new solution for M will be given by . |
| 26 | Both sets of data have been normalised such that the lowest value is equal to 1 . |
| 27 | The Republic of Colombia won its independence from Spain in 1819 although its borders have been redrawn several times since . |
| 28 | Executive voices have been raised several octaves over the issue ( UX No 433 ) , and there does not appear to be any clear agreement yet on how COSE firms would level this playing field . |
| 29 | Books have been called many things in their time , but not ‘ lean and muscular ’ . |
| 30 | The very words ‘ modern art ’ still carry by themselves a charge strong enough to disturb , dishearten , or even repel , some before they 've read a line or listened to a note of whatever work has been given this label . |