Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But various other bits of machinery which are now lying idle around the quarry probably would 've been better left in Italy or Spain or wherever they were acquired from . |
| 2 | Even so , prisoners do not normally riot unless this sense of injustice has been somehow inflamed beyond its normal simmering state . |
| 3 | This has been generously supported by the Department of Health , the Nuffield Foundation , Bearing Trust , Allied Dunbar and will be launching that early next year . |
| 4 | The zippy Toyota MR2 , which has been generously supplied by Northway Toyota of Bootle and Maghull , is a neat machine with a built-in ability to turn heads . |
| 5 | It has been persistently asserted by policy-makers , some administrative law scholars , and those concerned with the administration of tribunals , that the informality of tribunals , their simplicity , and their accessibility , have rendered representation both unnecessary and undesirable . |
| 6 | It has been rhetorically espoused by politicians and sceptically analysed by academics . |
| 7 | Lyric poetry has been misleadingly categorized as " subjective " art . |
| 8 | Of course , the argument is highly teleological and incapable of scientific proof , but it has been rigorously defended by brilliant minds and can not be lightly dismissed . |
| 9 | The law on the control over sexually violent images has been slightly strengthened with the introduction of legislation against the ‘ video nasties ’ and the banning of pornographic images from direct public view , although not preventing their availability . |
| 10 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 11 | This version has been slightly customized for a British audience . |
| 12 | So including them here on a stock instrument represents something of a treat for the would-be vintage guitar purchaser who has been otherwise stopped in his tracks by the silly money habitually demanded for early '60s Strats . |
| 13 | In sociological and anthropological literature the phatic use of language has been frequently commented on — particularly the conventional use of language to open talk-exchanges and to close them . |
| 14 | Marxism has been frequently derided for its explanations of political behaviour in Western democracies . |
| 15 | Although no one has set up an experiment to show that horses in a mentally enriched environment have superior intelligence to those reared in a mentally deprived environment , this has been frequently shown with smaller animals . |
| 16 | published by the Royal Historical Society , London , in 1945 , it has been frequently reprinted with minor corrections . |
| 17 | The case they should never have tried The Blue Arrow trial , the second longest in English criminal history , has been widely condemned as a travesty . |
| 18 | The important work of the Transport Policy Committee , and of the Faculty of Freight , has been widely covered in Transport and at local and national CIT meetings , so needs no detailed report here . |
| 19 | The difficulty of obtaining small amounts of external finance on adequate terms has been widely recognised as a major constraint on the formation and growth of small businesses in the UK . |
| 20 | Because of the variety and confusion of possibilities and responsibilities after the compulsory school period the need for a guide has been widely recognised by young people and their families . |
| 21 | It has been widely opposed in the UK as likely to stigmatise and isolate pupils . |
| 22 | In the West , poetry in translation from Eastern Europe has been widely disseminated in the past couple of decades . |
| 23 | Orimulsion , a new bitumen-based fuel from Venezuela , has been widely criticized as a " dirty " fuel because of its high sulphur content . |
| 24 | The Spielberger anxiety scale consists of twenty statements that gauge how respondents feel ‘ right now , at this moment ’ and has been widely evaluated in healthy American adults and in non-psychiatric hospital inpatients . |
| 25 | Gerald Egan 's model of ‘ The Skilled Helper ’ has been widely adopted as most suitable for this type of advice work . |
| 26 | The latest implementation , X Window Version 11 Release 3 , emerged a year ago , and has been widely adopted by Unix suppliers and by DEC , with Unix ( Ultrix ) and VAX VMS versions . |
| 27 | This technique has been widely adopted by researchers in recent years . |
| 28 | Cooperative binding between the cAMP-CRP complex and RNA polymerase at the lac P1 and gal P1 promoters has been widely supported by a variety of footprinting studies [ 18,22,24 ] . |
| 29 | Although I fully understand and share the concern that has been widely expressed about the implications of this case , I have no plans to institute any formal inquiry . |
| 30 | In the case of Elvis , this problem is particularly striking because within the rock discourse he has been widely seen as both the music 's first hero and its most prominent backslider . |