present perfect simple passive affirmative

In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 27 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as:

  present perfect simple passive affirmative

Here’s an example from englishclass101.com:

Traditionally, these meetings have been held Wednesday at noon, every other week.


Here are 50 head verbs that go in the present perfect simple passive affirmative verb phrase from the iWeb corpus.

1 HAS BEEN USED 89516
2 HAVE BEEN MADE 84822
3 HAS BEEN MADE 77399
4 HAVE BEEN USED 64855
5 HAS BEEN SHOWN 59557

6 HAS BEEN DESIGNED

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Known as ‘The Parks’, the project has been designed by Stewart Architecture and split into two development applications of 68 apartments.
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7 HAS BEEN FOUND 44470
8 HAS BEEN NAMED 41108

The driver of the car in which the shooting occurred has been named as Frank Molloy.

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9 HAVE BEEN FOUND 40902
10 HAVE BEEN GIVEN 38776
11 HAS BEEN GIVEN 36387
12 HAS BEEN ADDED 34786
13 HAVE BEEN TOLD 33532
14 HAVE BEEN REPORTED 31571
15 HAVE BEEN ADDED 31135
16 HAS BEEN DEVELOPED 29495
17 HAS BEEN REPORTED 29000
18 HAS BEEN CREATED 28174
19 HAVE BEEN SHOWN 27586
20 HAVE BEEN KNOWN 27566
21 HAS BEEN SET 26466
22 HAS BEEN REMOVED 26404
23 HAVE BEEN TAKEN 26247
24 HAS BEEN KNOWN 25499
25 HAS BEEN SAID 25446
26 HAS BEEN UPDATED 25210
27 HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED 25081
28 HAS BEEN TAKEN 24975
29 HAS BEEN COMPLETED 24831
30 HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED 23556
31 HAS BEEN RELEASED 23394
32 HAS BEEN CALLED 21934
33 HAVE BEEN CREATED 20963
34 HAS BEEN CHARGED 20575
35 HAS BEEN AWARDED 20532
36 HAS BEEN DESCRIBED 20499
37 HAS BEEN APPROVED 20347
38 HAVE BEEN DESIGNED 19966
39 HAD BEEN MADE 19943
40 HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED 19859
41 HAVE BEEN REMOVED 19497
42 HAS BEEN PROVEN 19070
43 HAS BEEN SELECTED 19005
44 HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED 18798
45 HAVE BEEN KILLED 18475
46 HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED 17926
47 HAS BEEN APPOINTED 17914
48 HAS BEEN LINKED 17596
49 ‘VE BEEN TOLD 17315
50 HAS BEEN REPLACED 17276

 

B1 vocabulary:

approved (1)
charged (1)
created (2)
designed (2)
developed (2)
named (1)
recognized (1)
removed (2)
replaced (1)
reported (2)
selected (1)
updated (1)

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