Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 2 | ‘ Therefore , Labour will be back in strength in the next election , and in the meantime , will be tiny of the performance of the council which has been elected on this occasion . ’ |
| 3 | The main anti-apartheid parties , unbanned by the government in February 1990 are : the African National Congress ( ANC , Oliver Tambo , pres. , Nelson Mandela , deputy pres. ) ; the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ; Clarence Makwetu was elected president in December after the death in October of Zephania Mothopeng ; PAC general secretary is Benny Alexander — see pp. 37765 , 37910 ) ; the PAC refuses to negotiate with the government until a constituent assembly has been elected by universal suffrage ; the Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo , Pandelani Nefolovhodwe , pres. ) , which rejects outright any negotiations with the government ; and the South African Communist Party ( SACP , Joe Slovo gen. sec. ) , which re-launched itself as a legal political party within South Africa in July 1990 . |
| 4 | So erm can you tell us what proportion of the work erm had been completed before prices were fixed erm for those packages that have been an and also what proportion of the work has been completed on those packages yet to be priced . |
| 5 | When we are satisfied that this stage of the transaction has been completed in good faith , you will receive the rest of the items through the post . ’ |
| 6 | Logging in the region has been halted since 1990 by court actions to protect the habitat of the northern spotted owl , leading to thousands of job losses [ see EDs 70 ; passim ] . |
| 7 | Population decline has been halted in many areas since the mid-1960s to its present level of 346,000 , with employment in manufacturing trebling in this period and total employment growing by one-half ( Shucksmith and Lloyd 1982 ) . |
| 8 | Heighington Planning appeal : An appeal has been lodged over refused planning permission for a 15-bedroom hotel and manager 's flat at Heighcliffe Country Club . |
| 9 | Flocked paper has been coated with powdered cotton . |
| 10 | Instead of generalising findings from one patient to others by treating them all as representing instances of a single syndrome , the approach is to treat them all as people in whom a language-processing system which , before their neurological damage , was the same for all of them , has been impaired in some specific way . |
| 11 | CPRW has evidence that the sale of holiday units as permanent residences is already beginning to happen where the temporary occupancy clause , which is customarily enforced on caravan and chalet sites , has been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 12 | Some of the most significant changes have affected rural areas , and Development Area or Intermediate Area status has been withdrawn from large parts of rural Wales , Scotland and northern England ( figure 3.3b ) . |
| 13 | So far the choice has been fudged by declared commitments to both EC technological collaboration and more competition . |
| 14 | Par for this giant among seaside courses has been amended to 73 for the Amateur Championship , ‘ but today it 's more like 76 ’ declared club professional , Dai Stevenson . |
| 15 | The legal recognition of corporate character may be obtained either by a charter from the Crown , as in the case of most of our older corporations , like the Hudson 's Bay Company , some universities and their colleges , as well as of some more recent ones ; or directly by means of an incorporating Act of parliament , as in the case of certain public utilities ; or indirectly through an Act of Parliament like the Companies Act 1948 ( which has been amended by several later Acts of the same name , and consolidated by the Companies Act 1985 ) , which offers corporate character to any number of persons ( usually not less than seven ) associated for a lawful object , who are willing to comply with the statutory requirements as to registration and otherwise . |
| 16 | as if to underline fears about new diseases from Europe , that symbol of unity the Channel tunnel has been fitted with electronic fox traps to prevent that most dreaded of diseases , rabies . |
| 17 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 18 | Finally , inward investors find attractive the measures that we have taken to improve training and skills , almost every one of which has been opposed by Labour . |
| 19 | Scottish Office officials said yesterday that a Scottish Environmental Protection Agency ( SEPA ) could be operational by 1996 , although its creation has been opposed by 40 local authorities and six of the seven river purification boards . |
| 20 | The University 's approach to financial planning ( as has been explained on previous occasions ) is essentially conservative , in that its systems are aimed at forecasting what funds will be available during the planning period and deciding how best to apply them to the academic priorities already identified . |
| 21 | this appearance has been explained by multiple tiny bubbles produced by rotation of the impeller . |
| 22 | On its own it has been explained in various special ways , but considered in the general setting of Mediterranean stratigraphy , some more general explanation seems to be needed . |
| 23 | An open meeting has been arranged for 11 a.m. on Tuesday 29th October in Room 29 ( Upstairs Lab ) . |
| 24 | A meeting has been arranged for two representatives from each institute owning their own halls at the W I centre in Chelmsford on Monday the twenty first October from ten until twelve noon noon . |
| 25 | And finally , not on the green sheet , I will tell you , to put you all out of your misery , that tea has been arranged for six thirty . |
| 26 | Following the very successful session with at the January Q.T. Day a further programme has been arranged for 7 July at the ( the venue to be confirmed ) . |
| 27 | A meeting has been arranged for 30th September in the Village Hall when a neighbourhood watch will be set up for Belmont Road area . |
| 28 | This in-service training day has been arranged for 27th September at Cecil Sharp House , Regent 's Park Road . |
| 29 | This in-service training day has been arranged for 27th September at Cecil Sharp House , Regent 's Park Road . |
| 30 | An open meeting has been arranged for 20th January , between 12 and 2 in Conference Room 1 . |