Example sentences of "have been [verb] and [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the typical distinctions between discourse which has been written and that which has been spoken can be seen in the following two descriptions of a rainbow . |
| 2 | ( It is interesting to note that the right to benefit for 16 and 17 year olds has been denied and these young people either accept some form of youth training or get nothing at all . ) |
| 3 | Question 1 of the additional questions will reveal whether or not the road has been adopted and all charges paid . |
| 4 | In other tropical areas such as East Africa , no significant degree of hypobiosis has been observed and this may be due to more frequent rainfall in these areas making such an evolutionary development unnecessary . |
| 5 | The staff development policy has been revised and all staff are now guaranteed their own individual development plan and will work towards the appropriate NVQ units for their job role . |
| 6 | These include the purposes for which the product has been manufactured and any instructions or warnings with respect to doing or refraining from doing anything in relation to the product . |
| 7 | Nevertheless an important start has been made and some students are being exposed to a segment of African literature . |
| 8 | The importance of such developments will be clear : planning for resource-based learning is a taxing and time-consuming activity for teachers , but if the work can be shared , if the expertise and creativity of colleagues can be made easily available , and if the teacher can have ready access to advice , guidance and encouragement , an important contribution has been made and some of the burden shifted . |
| 9 | An analysis of the biology of the hill sheep problem and a synthesis of the available knowledge has been made and this shows the potential for production of the hill ewe to be adequate and that manipulation of nutrition during the important physiological phases — lactation , pre- and post-mating , and late pregnancy — can lead to significant increases in the lamb crop both in numbers and quality ( 8 ) . |
| 10 | On the other hand , it is necessary to appreciate in the US , for example , those instances where State law has been applied and those where Federal law has exerted a formative influence . |
| 11 | But none of these claims has been substantiated and some preparations may actually be dangerous . |
| 12 | " The second phase of EMU will start on Jan. 1 , 1994 , after ( i ) the single market programme has been achieved ; and ( ii ) the treaty has been ratified , and by its provisions : ( a ) a process has been set in train designed to ensure the independence of the members of the new monetary institution at the latest when monetary powers have been transferred ; ( b ) the monetary financing of budget deficits has been prohibited and any responsibility on the part of the Community or its member states for one member state 's debt been precluded ; and ( c ) the greatest possible number of member states have adhered to the ERM . |
| 13 | For implicatures are not semantic inferences , but rather inferences based on both the content of what has been said and some specific assumptions about the cooperative nature of ordinary verbal interaction . |
| 14 | has been achieved and that organisation and execution of this part of the ESSE/L Project is an example of good practice which we highly recommend other schools and other authorities to adopt . |
| 15 | has been achieved and that the 15 per cent . |
| 16 | The first test is a review of the situation , operate is the action which follows , the second test is a check as to whether or not the desired result has been achieved and this is followed either by another operation or by an exit if the desired result has been achieved . |
| 17 | Naff plebeian drugs , junk food , hoary sexism , a love of trash culture … hip hop and hardcore share all these , but where hip hop still has a guiding notion of cool ( both music and style are minimal ) neo-hardcore is prepared to LET IT ALL HANG OUT horribly ; the corset of cool has been ruptured and all manner of banished and forbidden rock memories have sprawled free … grotesquerie embraced as a defiant gesture against the sound track of yuppie culture — sleek , chic , designer pop-soul . |
| 18 | The lower dam has been breached and most of the signs of its previous existence are gone , while the upper dam , though it still has a fine water race below it , is silted over and is now a peaty , muddy reed-bed . |
| 19 | Mr. Barrie Lamb of DRPS likened closure of this line to bulldozing the pyramids : so much of the old S & DR and S & T has been obliterated and this last remaining relic must survive . |
| 20 | LEDs alongside certain buttons indicate which mode of operation has been selected and these do help in keeping tabs on what 's happening during programming . |
| 21 | Since then , despite over 50,000 Finnish citizens travelling each year to tropical countries alone , only 1 case of imported pharyngeal diphtheria has been diagnosed and that was nearly 30 years ago ( 1965 ) . |
| 22 | Certainly the groundswell from the voting public has been noted and much more consideration relating to the disposal of the aircraft ( and perhaps future retirements ? ) might now be expected from the Ministry of Defence ( MoD ) . |
| 23 | Additional benefits for unemployment and invalidity have been cut , the ceiling on pensions for widows and widowers has been lowered and all contributors will eventually receive lower pensions than the Labour Government originally intended . |
| 24 | I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release . |
| 25 | In a number of the houses the staircase has been preserved and much of the upper floors ; only the roof is missing . |
| 26 | A series of complementary modules has been identified and these introduce more specialised areas and provide the opportunity to further expand the key skills embedded within the core modules . |
| 27 | A BRITISH Telecom worker has been murdered and another badly hurt by bandits in Nigeria . |
| 28 | The judicial statistics inevitably provide an incomplete picture since the only information available relates to matters where a writ has been issued and many disputes may already have been settled by then . |
| 29 | One person has been hurt and several others injured in a multiple crash involving five vehicles in thick fog . |
| 30 | Now , as described in Update 5 , a results deadline has been introduced and this has allowed the statistical service to be improved . |