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 | ‘ I have just been elected chairman again for this year I am very much involved with the society so it just makes sense really . ’ |
| 13 | The McCapra String Quartet have just been reappointed Aldeburgh Quartet in Residence for the second year running . |
| 14 | England have usually been favoured opponents , and before the series ended he would have two more hundreds against them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Graduates have also been granted exemptions by the professional bodies in personnel , marketing , banking and insurance . |
| 17 | The last three have also been designated Ramsar sites ( under the international Ramsar Convention on wetlands of international importance ) . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | The different linguistic fields have influenced each other but there have also been marked differences between the fields . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 : |
| 24 | The videos have even been sold door to door from delivery vans . |
| 25 | In the UK off-trade , we have consistently been voted number one for customer service in industry surveys . |
| 26 | To this rather philosophical critique have then been added arguments about the economic inadequacies of markets . |
| 27 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 28 | There have certainly been marked changes in Britain during the last few decades in both the ideals and practicalities of family life . |
| 29 | In 1981 concerns over the way the Social Work Department operated led to an inquiry , the results of which have never been made public . |
| 30 | They have never been given equality of status with the other ‘ nations ’ of Yugoslavia , and even under the benign 1974 Constitution they are conscious that they are regarded as inferiors , barely tolerated by the Slav peoples of Yugoslavia , and especially by the Serbs . |