Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] have been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These two cone types are present in almost equal numbers , and not in the ratio of 2:1 that has been postulated for the human fovea . |
| 2 | Moreover , the peasantry were proving more acquiescent than had been expected , and the government was responding to the financial concern of the nobility with a variety of measures including plans to establish provincial banks . |
| 3 | And Davide could almost fancy he could smell again the stale vaporous emanations of the law in the room as he began to take down details of the wrong that had been done . |
| 4 | They put their trust in a military solution to right the wrong that had been done in 1688 , and looked to France for help . |
| 5 | It is worth posing additional questions to promote discussion some that have been found to be useful are : If there had been no problem with the purchase of the bacon-curing business what would you have done with the £500 paid to the accountant ? |
| 6 | The project ran into difficulties when we discovered that the forms of ‘ collaboration ’ being developed in the classrooms observed were more all pervasive yet apparently less structured and organised than had been anticipated . |
| 7 | The effects of evacuation were perceived in terms of social pathology , so that although evacuation was pronounced less harmful than had been feared the effect of the analysis was to see the normal development of children as problematic , and to emphasise the compensatory role of agencies outside the family — school and its directing bodies in particular . |
| 8 | The trial , which had begun on March 5 , was shorter than had been anticipated both because Poindexter chose not to give evidence himself , and because the prosecution was successful in eliciting incriminating evidence from its chief witness , Oliver North , Poindexter 's subordinate at the National Security Council . |
| 9 | Peppered beef , vegetable lattice bake and herring in tomato sauce are just a few that have been requested lately . |
| 10 | I mean , there 's a few that 's been done that have n't been caught anyway . |
| 11 | The position is precisely clear and has been confirmed . |
| 12 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 13 | Our local starling population is a race apart in that they are non-migratory and have been isolated in the islands for long enough to have developed their own characteristics . |
| 14 | GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework . |
| 15 | None of these Athenian Doric temples had carved metopes , but fine big relief-slabs from the Acropolis ( fig. 40 ) seem architectural and have been thought part of a continuous frieze from the Peisistratid temple , like that of the fifth-century Parthenon . |
| 16 | The volume of complaint about the difficulties encountered by pedestrians is certainly high and has been recorded in a number of surveys in recent years . |
| 17 | The overall electron transfer from the anion is particularly high and has been calculated at approximately 0.8e . |
| 18 | Gazzer was twenty-two years old and had been compared in looks to a pit bull , entirely to the dog 's advantage . |
| 19 | The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison . |
| 20 | I am a male working with young children under eight years old and have been involved , to a greater or lesser degree for almost ten years . |
| 21 | I am twenty years old and have been educated in Britain . |
| 22 | Some of the vellum bound books are nearly 400 years old and have been read by successive generations of Oxford students . |
| 23 | When the VDU is free and has been allocated to the current Offline run , the Offline System will present a display similar to that shown in Figure 2.1 . |
| 24 | Some of the reforms are eminently sensible and have been introduced . |
| 25 | A " procession of silence " for the restoration of constitutional rights , declared illegal by the government on April 1 , had proceeded in Caracas on April 2 and had been dispersed by police using water cannon , tear gas and birdshot . |
| 26 | He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox . |
| 27 | Getty , 59 , had been Premier since 1985 and had been re-elected in 1989 . |
| 28 | Pilkington , the brother of Gloucester 's retainer John , had been a royal servant since the early 1460s and had been rewarded with land in the north midlands , bringing him within the duchy connection . |
| 29 | Pilkington , the brother of Gloucester 's retainer John , had been a royal servant since the early 1460s and had been rewarded with land in the north midlands , bringing him within the duchy connection . |
| 30 | To signifies this relation of subsequence in virtue of its potential meaning of a movement from one point in time to another and has been seen to give rise to two clearly identifiable actual meanings according to whether the speaker conceives the whole movement which to is capable of signifying or only the initial part thereof . |