Example sentences of "have [adv] been [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some have since been paid compensation . |
| 2 | The domination of the cinema screen over the audience has also resulted in experiments with ‘ smell-o-vision ’ , but so far we have thankfully been spared Aldous Huxley 's vision of ‘ the feelies ’ . |
| 3 | Three of its board directors have also taken on additional responsibilities and have duly been retitled group executive directors . |
| 4 | We have long been committed Europeans , believing that Britain can only be secure , successful and environmentally safe if we play our full part in building a more united and democratic Europe . |
| 5 | We have all been given golf tips at some time or other while playing , and some tips do work . |
| 6 | ‘ We have all been branded murderers , ’ Lin Foh persisted . |
| 7 | Four sets , which come under the affirmative procedure , have been considered by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and have all been declared intra vires . |
| 8 | The edges of the body have all been left square , with no contouring , lending the guitar a very sharply-defined profile . |
| 9 | Nowadays they get in free and are given VIP passes ( access to all areas ) , but tonight the five mates with whom they 've driven the 150 miles from Southport have all been refused entry by the Ritzy 's management for being under 20 . |
| 10 | The Industrial Bank of Japan , the Long Term Credit Bank and the agricultural Norinchukin Bank have already been given permission to establish such subsidiaries . |
| 11 | Several Bosnian families have already been given shelter in this country until the fighting at home is over . |
| 12 | Details of the ‘ highly sensitive ’ information have not been made public , but it is understood to have originated from intelligence and diplomatic sources and probably relates to plans by Marcos loyalists to capitalise on his return to the country . |
| 13 | Mr Richard Wakeford , senior research associate at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine , has already conducted a series of surveys into educational practices at British medical schools for the council , but the results have not been made public ( R Wakeford , personal communication ) . |
| 14 | The fact that certain strategies which can be shown to be useful in translation have not been made use of so far suggests that translators are simply not aware of them , rather than that they are familiar with them but consciously or subconsciously choose not to use them . |
| 15 | Finally , it has been suggested that if native speakers of English who have not been taught phonetics feel that and are each ‘ one sound ’ , we should be guided by their ‘ intuitions ’ and prefer the one-phoneme analysis . |
| 16 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 17 | I have not been supplied details of the BMA/BUPA scheme , but the chief executive of BUPA tells me that between 1981 and 1991 total BUPA benefit payments rose 280% while BUPA membership rose 10% . |
| 18 | Reporters have not been allowed access to Chi Ma Wan or any of the other detention centres . |
| 19 | ‘ I have just been elected chairman again for this year I am very much involved with the society so it just makes sense really . ’ |
| 20 | The McCapra String Quartet have just been reappointed Aldeburgh Quartet in Residence for the second year running . |
| 21 | England have usually been favoured opponents , and before the series ended he would have two more hundreds against them . |
| 22 | The lighting and keeping of the hearth fire have always been given significance in human culture ; the Greeks named their goddess of the hearth Hestia , later to be replaced by the Roman Vesta , whose handmaidens were the famous Vestal Virgins . |
| 23 | Graduates have also been granted exemptions by the professional bodies in personnel , marketing , banking and insurance . |
| 24 | The last three have also been designated Ramsar sites ( under the international Ramsar Convention on wetlands of international importance ) . |
| 25 | ‘ We have also been given assurances that there will be a cordon of police both inside and outside a perimeter fence which surrounds the playing area . ’ |
| 26 | The different linguistic fields have influenced each other but there have also been marked differences between the fields . |
| 27 | I have also been recommended Zanzibar , but that is going to cost a great deal of money , and likewise the journey there and back will occupy much valuable time . |
| 28 | We now even have a situation where some of our members that the local authorities have now been given guidelines to recover the monies paid to them and . |
| 29 | Thus to the expository lesson , the period of exercise and drill , the set readings from the class textbook , the tests of memory and comprehension , and all the other useful ploys of the good teacher , have now been added sessions when the student is placed in direct confrontation with a variety of information sources , print.form , audio visual and three-dimensional , in small groups or on his own , in a situation which requires his active involvement and which can to a greater or lesser extent be tailored to meet his individual needs . |
| 30 | A group of Russian orphans who spent a three month break in the region have now been offered places at schools in England.Fifty orphans came to the Malvern Hills as guests of local schools.And they were heartbroken when they had to return to Russia.Richard Barnett reports : |