Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this has been done several times , the actual frequency of reorganization can be compared with that expected , and the future reorganization schedule will be based on the results . |
| 2 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 3 | The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland . |
| 4 | The village is well known for its flowers , and has been rewarded several times with a place in the Britain in Bloom Competition . |
| 5 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 6 | It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully . |
| 7 | A security guard has been shot several times during a bungled armed robbery attempt outside a bank.The guard was shot in the leg by two men just after he arrived in a security van , but it seems the raiders escaped empty handed . |
| 8 | She has been seen several times over the years . |
| 9 | With her was New York estate agent Jeffrey Epstein , who has been seen several times with Ghislaine . |
| 10 | The Jewish cemetery in Berlin 's Weissensee district has been desecrated several times and groups armed with petrol bombs and rubber truncheons have attacked immigrant worker 's hostels , and known meeting places of the ‘ left ’ — bars like Café Westphal in Prenzlauer Berg and various squatted houses . |
| 11 | That significant marine action extends to quite high levels is well known.Wentworth ( 1938 ) has for instance described an example from the Hawaiian Islands , where a block of tuff weighing about 7 tons has been moved several feet fro its natural position at an elevation of 12m ( 40 ft ) on an exposed cliff . |
| 12 | Although the fish has been hooked several times , no one has succeeded in landing it . |
| 13 | The FBI has been summoned several times to tackle problems the local police could not handle . |
| 14 | What you see now has been rebuilt several times , although the medieval foundations still exist . |
| 15 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 16 | Though the theory of a third hand — the interpolator of the epitomist of Jason — has been propounded several times — and even recently by Diego Arenhoevel in his excellent book Die Theokratie nach dem I. und II . |
| 17 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 18 | Apart from being broadcast on Belgian television , this interview has been shown several times to the mainly student audience of the association , but the text has never been published . |
| 19 | He is a largely forgotten naturalist now but this book has been reprinted several times and would be worth finding in a library to start off an interest in deer in children . |
| 20 | It has been reprinted several times , beginning in 1910 . |
| 21 | In fact it is probable that it has been repopulated several times . |
| 22 | It was an unfortunate British debut for Thompson , who has been overlooked several times by coach , Dennis Hay . |
| 23 | The intensity of the water problem has been mentioned several times . |
| 24 | The general link has been mentioned several times . |
| 25 | Stress has been mentioned several times already in this course without any attempt to define what the word means . |
| 26 | It has been mentioned several times that tonic syllables have a high degree of prominence ; prominence is , of course , a property of stressed syllables , and a tonic syllable not only carries a tone ( which is something related to intonation ) but also a type of stress that will be called tonic stress . |
| 27 | There is a certain kudos in it , like the attitude towards Patrick Chauvel ( who has been wounded several times covering wars ) , and there 's Capa 's : ‘ If your photos are n't good enough you 're not close enough . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd been gone several days before Trueman did it . |
| 29 | Even from this distance it was clear he 'd been hit several times in the chest and there was also red paint all over his visor . |
| 30 | She was cold , tired and aching ; her bed had n't been thick enough , and she 'd been wakened several times by sheep trying to share it , or eat it . |