Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toshiba Corp has been showing off the robotics work it is engaged on at its research centre , where it has a number of projects that are or have grown out of government-sponsored projects : it is developing eyes 2mm to 3mm in diameter for a micromachine for use in inspecting pipes in nuclear power stations , and also a software-controlled self-mobile robot for use in space where not all astronauts can be expected to be robot experts . |
| 2 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 3 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 4 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 5 | After three centuries of decline , the first steps had been taken on the path to restoration . |
| 6 | The car had been chased up the M1 as far as Newport Pagnall by two Bedfordshire police patrol cars . |
| 7 | A plaque had been hung on the gates : ‘ Fierce Dog — Beware ’ . |
| 8 | Molly had been laying out the lunch on the terrace . |
| 9 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 10 | There 's the nucleus of a very good side here , the young lads have been brought up the Lyall way . ’ |
| 11 | The judge has been summing up the case against Harper and the jury will consider the case against him tomorrow . |
| 12 | The disclosure letter is then used by the vendor to describe any specific exceptions to the general statement , for example , two claims for unfair dismissal having been brought in the last six months . |
| 13 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 14 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 15 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 16 | As this representation is difficult for the draughtsman to interpret , mesh lines have been inserted down the front and side view axis ( to give Figure 6.23 ) . |
| 17 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 18 | The second purpose of the Lecture has been to bring out the need to consider a complete ‘ package ’ of tax changes . |
| 19 | Perhaps the main achievement of the political right has been to slow down the rate of growth in public spending and to identify some of it as ‘ wasteful ’ . |
| 20 | The US authorities claimed that the decision to evacuate Peace Corps workers had been taken on the basis of general intelligence concerning NPA intentions , and that Swanson 's abduction had only become known after the decision had been made . |
| 21 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 22 | While we talked Miss Sowerby had been cleaning up the patient with the head wound and , as the man prepared to leave , Reid cried to him , ‘ Head feel'um better ? ’ |
| 23 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |
| 24 | The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls . |
| 25 | According to a statement received by the weekly Oiga , Salinas accepted responsibility for the coup attempt and declared that its aim had been to hand over the presidency to Máximo San Román Cáceres , Fujimori 's dismissed First Vice-President named " constitutional president " by the dissolved Congress [ see p. 38846 ] . |
| 26 | The railway station has been re-sited down the line to make room for the town 's bypass . |
| 27 | After all , the state owns many buildings and assets , and much emphasis has been put on the institutional shareholdings of insurance companies and pension funds . |
| 28 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 29 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
| 30 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |