Example sentences of "[verb] been drive [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To anyone who has been driving on the planet earth within the last 75 years , they are just the same . |
| 2 | As Mary recovered at home in neighbouring Bakewell yesterday , husband Harold , 85 , a retired engineer , said : ‘ Mary has been driving for 17 years , and is very good . |
| 3 | NO wonder Princess Diana has been driven to desperate measures . |
| 4 | She thinks photography has been driven into an isolationist role : how right she is . |
| 5 | IBM has been driven into the System V camp by customer demands in the US federal government and the telecommunications industry , and the IBM Federal Systems Co is helping Harris out with the work . |
| 6 | IBM has been driven into the SVR4 camp by customer demands in the US federal government and the telecommunications industry , and the IBM Federal Systems Co is helping Harris out with the work . |
| 7 | Channel 5 Everyone wants more choice , and Channel 5 has been driven by technological developments . |
| 8 | The proliferation of business information sources has been driven by the increasing ease with which information can be made publicly available through advances in IT , and of course by the availability of cash to purchase those resources . |
| 9 | ‘ The impetus for change has been driven by the charities rather than the City , but the City recognised this and has sought to make the most of it . ’ |
| 10 | This has been driven by the users according to Sumner , who dislike the mess and complication of involved in linking and managing multiple applications . |
| 11 | Simulator development has been driven by technology rather than by the behavioural sciences with the standard result that there is a high reliance on face validity with relatively little resource devoted to systematic evaluation . |
| 12 | Similarly , much recent analysis of the impact of technical change on labour relations has been concerned to show how technical innovation has been driven by the need of employers to ‘ deskill ’ the workforce in order to control the ‘ workprocess ’ and extract the maximum rate of profit from labour [ Friedman , 1977 ] . |
| 13 | Paul Trowbridge , UK marketing manager with SynOptics Communications Inc , said that he can understand Proteon 's viewpoint , and believes that APPI development has been driven by the financing questions surrounding APPN . |
| 14 | San Jose-based Tatung Science & Technology Inc has been driven by Sun Microsystems Inc into cutting prices on its own Sparc-based workstation line , and as a result , it says it now offers a 40MHz system at $5,990 and a full range of colour systems at less than $5,000 . |
| 15 | Published work on screening for osteoporosis is based largely on experience in the United States , where widespread growth of screening has been driven by commercial factors and not by public health policy . |
| 16 | And then we have the third issue which is site selection and here they are at one with the local communities when they say this particular er selected site has been driven by economic consideration and not environmental consideration . |
| 17 | Mr Rowland 's bitter campaign of vengeance has been driven by that affront . |
| 18 | Equally , however , it has been driven from within the organisation by reducing beds , shutting old hospitals , or transforming them into nursing homes , and concentrating high technology investment in a small number of centres , well equipped and well staffed . |
| 19 | He 'd been driving for days , he 'd forgotten how many , and he was tired of the white lines painted down the middle of the highway , he was tired to the centre of his bones . |
| 20 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 21 | Well driving and for erm you know he had plant hire , he 'd been driving for him and that . |
| 22 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 23 | She 'd been driving along the A420 Oxford to Swindon road at Pusey woods , when she was hit head-on by a stolen Vauxhall Cavalier . |
| 24 | He said he 'd been driving along Akers Way in Swindon at between 40 and 60 miles per hour , when he became aware of Shaun Gooch behind him . |
| 25 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 26 | So far , he 'd been driving in a one-car team and in that situation , there is no way of knowing who is quick . |
| 27 | Even now , of course , her mother would deny that she 'd been driven by physical needs — she still insisted on living the lie that hers had been a love-story doomed to disaster . |
| 28 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 29 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
| 30 | ‘ He must have been driving for hours . ’ |