Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] [vb pp] [adv] " 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 | The main contract is progressing well , following the successful if frantic mobilisation period , which reflects great credit on those involved , particularly Jan van Smirran who has since been transferred too Singapore to manage this and other contracts . |
| 4 | The hunt has since been called off . |
| 5 | In 1983 , the Turkish Cypriots declared their own republic , which has since been recognised only by Turkey . |
| 6 | It has since been pointed out by Digby McLaren ( 1970 ) that many other groups disappeared at the same level or underwent traumatic changes . |
| 7 | That possibility has since been ruled out . |
| 8 | Boeing components are alleged to have been sold to the Iranians by the London-based Aer Lingus controlled spares company Alpex , which has since been wound up . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the process started at Bristol was a beginning and has since been continued so nobly by Jo , that there are occasions now when I not only know that I am good — getting close to the shining white — but even a benefit to society ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The virus has since been passed on to their children , their sexual partners and their partners ' partners . |
| 13 | She stayed at the Xenias Melathron , a little old hotel that has since been pulled down , but has an after-life in her story ‘ The Voices ’ , to which the amusing waiter Polycarp , who brought her breakfast to her , also contributed . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | All along the Baltic region brick building began early , owing to the lack of stone materials , but such work has mostly been altered later , in the Middle Ages , or was destroyed in the Second World War . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , though creative financing has mostly been stamped on , some councils ' past ingenuity is catching up with them . |
| 17 | EASING London 's increasing traffic congestion by means of road pricing has effectively been ruled out by the Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The first has effectively been ruled out by the odd admission by the federalists , and has been dealt with earlier . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ The investigation has effectively been closed down . ’ |
| 22 | She went on : ‘ The image has obviously been watered down these last seasons and the situation must be reversed . ’ |
| 23 | The single page has obviously been torn away from the Treasury tag that once attached it to its fellows and there is no sign of the promised annexes . |
| 24 | This is Cnut the caring Christian king and diplomat , vowing to amend what has hitherto been done amiss through negligence or the intemperance of youth , and stressing the generosity of his reception by the emperor to enhance his own prestige . |
| 25 | Instead of guarantees that the story really happened , we get promises that it has all been made up . |
| 26 | Cyclic sedimentation has long been recognised here , with the succession at the east end of the island largely marine , and that at the west end largely continental . |
| 27 | The history of Venice has long been bound up with a pageant of ships . |
| 28 | Introduced to Britain by the Romans and to North America by its first settlers , it has long been used all round the Mediterranean bowl , and continues to be used there today . |
| 29 | True , material living standards have risen but this has only been granted either to increase the overall rate of exploitation of the workers or because the workers of the Third World are being exploited even more rapaciously to ‘ buy off ’ subordinate classes at home . |
| 30 | The full theoretical significance of this idea has only been demonstrated recently by anthropologists who have turned again to Marx in order to find a framework in which to place their observations [ Gedelier , 1977 ] . |