Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mothers have been warned that alcohol and tobacco — as well as various medicines and other chemicals — can injure a fetus . |
| 2 | As with the clearance of the forest of the British Isles since the last glaciation , those areas with the ‘ least resistance ’ , i.e. with shallow dry soils , have been cleared first . |
| 3 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 4 | Many valuable drugs have been recognized first as poisons . |
| 5 | Then she would at least have been able to ask if he was anything to do with Massingham Engineering — and thereby have been prepared this morning . |
| 6 | Restrictions on water use have been imposed this month in areas of the south and east of the country , which is experiencing the worst drought this century . |
| 7 | The Republic of Colombia won its independence from Spain in 1819 although its borders have been redrawn several times since . |
| 8 | The six men and six women have been questioned all day by detectives : |
| 9 | In such a case , notice that the average length of life , e , in a population is not , in general , equal to the average age at death because all the birth cohorts have been compounded irrespective of their sizes . |
| 10 | The amounts as well as qualifying ages have been altered several times since 1986/87 , so any rebate would only apply to allowances that would have been due to you at the time . |
| 11 | Loans to small farmers have been increased 25 times over ; research and investment has gone into new seeds and fertilizers specially designed for the needs ( and the purses ) of the small farmer ; and maize prices have gone up by 129 per cent so as to provide an incentive . |
| 12 | Fifty thousand Palestinians have been through the prisons since the intifada began ; scores of Arab children have been shot dead . |
| 13 | Fifty thousand Palestinians have been through the prisons since the intifada began ; scores of Arab children have been shot dead . |
| 14 | Some have been shot dead at their office desks . |
| 15 | The S A S are already there and there are people that have been shot dead , unarmed people , civilians who 've been shot dead by the S A S. |
| 16 | Three protestors supporting President Gamsakhurdia have been shot dead by gunmen in Tblisi . |
| 17 | Four men suspected of IRA terrorism have been shot dead in an SAS ambush in Ulster . |
| 18 | Given the horrendous job losses that have been announced this month in the manufacturing sector , are these signs of the success of the Government 's economic policy ? |
| 19 | Many of these people have been rejected all their lives . |
| 20 | They have been fed non-sexist , multi-cultural books and toys along with their strained apricots ; they have been treated by female GPs , they have sat and watched Kaffe Fassett knitting and sewing on TV , but their ideas of male and female roles are as sexist as if we had never made the effort . |
| 21 | In peephological terms , the voters have been fed large doses of medicine for the past month . |
| 22 | You will still call that colour ‘ green ’ because you too have been taught that grass is always green . |
| 23 | Many of the points which have been raised this evening will be considered in Committee . |
| 24 | Twenty-one red kite chicks have been raised this year , compared to just 10 last year . |
| 25 | Executive voices have been raised several octaves over the issue ( UX No 433 ) , and there does not appear to be any clear agreement yet on how COSE firms would level this playing field . |
| 26 | In recent years dismissals have been justified much more in terms of the need to rationalize the labour force in the face of external economic problems which are compounded by Japan 's ageing population . |
| 27 | I have been sent another example , which is rather more serious . |
| 28 | Provisions relating to ancient monuments have been amended several times , the latest being 1983 when the National Heritage Act was passed . |
| 29 | It 's only once all these preparations have been done that the family concentrate on decorating their own home . |
| 30 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |