Example sentences of "[pron] has been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs yeah Shrimp , you got good English ! |
| 2 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs . |
| 3 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 4 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 5 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 6 | Ornithologically nothing has been gained from these changes in habitat on which the Sussex populations of some species largely depend . |
| 7 | The fact that costs are not sunk means production is timeless — nothing has been committed at any point . |
| 8 | No-one has been executed for three years , human rights groups said . |
| 9 | Someone has been murdered in mysterious circumstances : how has it come about ? |
| 10 | Somebody has been interfering with this case internally . ’ |
| 11 | But they can not be too remote if a school — primary or secondary — is working to a curriculum blueprint which has been sought by successive governments and if we now accept that schools have only a limited choice in any broader expectations which society imposes upon them . |
| 12 | So clear is this conclusion to my mind that , notwithstanding anything which has been said in other cases , I would be very slow to concede that the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) is in its context ambiguous . |
| 13 | The legal recognition of corporate character may be obtained either by a charter from the Crown , as in the case of most of our older corporations , like the Hudson 's Bay Company , some universities and their colleges , as well as of some more recent ones ; or directly by means of an incorporating Act of parliament , as in the case of certain public utilities ; or indirectly through an Act of Parliament like the Companies Act 1948 ( which has been amended by several later Acts of the same name , and consolidated by the Companies Act 1985 ) , which offers corporate character to any number of persons ( usually not less than seven ) associated for a lawful object , who are willing to comply with the statutory requirements as to registration and otherwise . |
| 14 | It is not yet clear how many criteria teachers and others can be expected to manage , or find useful , but the limited amount of research and observation which has been conducted in this area suggests that teachers do not always work at a high level of detailed information . |
| 15 | The Created God is the mental image of a storehouse of ‘ goodness ’ which has been extracted from two sources , evolution and civilisation . |
| 16 | But how far have the changes in child care law embodied in the Children Act 1989 , with its focus on the paramountcy of the child 's welfare ( as a means to the child 's better protection ) , and the increasing emphasis which has been placed on parental responsibility rather than rights by the courts in recent years , been mirrored by changes in the balance of power between parent , child and state in education ? |
| 17 | Ealing LEA 's syllabus , which has been challenged by one parent for failing to give sufficient attention to Christianity , apparently states that , ‘ whilst our children need to understand that Christianity is a living faith which has shaped the history , institutions , art and culture of Britain , they also need to explore the other living faiths in our borough so that the richness of our religious experience can be shared and appreciated ’ . |
| 18 | The problem is also significant in China where there are c. 170 000 km 2 of desertified land , approximately 30 per cent of which has been created since 1920 ( Zhu Zhenda 1982 , quoted in Kebin and Kaiguo 1989 ) . |
| 19 | It is reputed not to be a natural species , but one which has been created by Chinese fishbreeders . |
| 20 | For NDT Systems , the UTEA-1 represents the first in-house designed and manufactured ultrasonic products , which has been met with great enthusiasm . |
| 21 | a sheet which has been printed on one side only and then folded with two right angle folds to form a four page uncut section . |
| 22 | Next is Upton Mill , which has been converted for residential use . |
| 23 | Finally , inward investors find attractive the measures that we have taken to improve training and skills , almost every one of which has been opposed by Labour . |
| 24 | This does not include information which has been leaked from such sources , nor does it include unauthorised and off-the-cuff comments made by junior officials . |
| 25 | The volumes will be produced with the use of new technology in editing and printing and will be based at the Bentham Project which has been supported by earlier ESRC grants . |
| 26 | A further difficulty has arisen concerning the priority which has been given to judicial or quasi-judicial measures in the attempt to suppress racist discourses . |
| 27 | The sentence caused uproar in east Germany , which has been swept by neo-Nazi racist violence since the collapse of the Berlin wall . |
| 28 | The five-year project has resulted in a facelift for the line which has been recognised with several national awards . |
| 29 | Ministers are now isolated as virtually the only supporters of the scheme which has been condemned by Conservative backbenchers , Opposition MPs and students . |
| 30 | Recently he has acted as consultant on the hit West End musical Miss Saigon ( transfer to Broadway expected soon ) , the story of a love affair between a GI and a Vietnamese bar girl which has been condemned by some critics as exploitative . |