Example sentences of "[adj] have [been] drive " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been driven by the users according to Sumner , who dislike the mess and complication of involved in linking and managing multiple applications . |
| 2 | He was told this had been to drive off an attack by the dog pack . |
| 3 | Military leaders in the sixteenth century who could not find wars to fight elsewhere might turn on their own sovereigns and fight at home ; there had been some decades of civil war in England after the English had been driven out of France in the middle of the fifteenth century . |
| 4 | Once the British had been driven from the European mainland , they had lost virtually all of the general intelligence that armies gather on their enemy 's positions , his deployment , and his defences . |
| 5 | By 1972 , presumably to guide people in the same predicament , posts five feet high had been driven into the ground beside the track . |
| 6 | No , he 's more likely to have been driving the Custom Shop totally insane for about two years straight , telephoning at obscure hours to tell them about his change of heart concerning the exact height of the fret-wire . |
| 7 | He was therefore likely to have been driving through Theale late on Sunday . |
| 8 | These have been driven up , first , by a labour shortage , brought about by the ending of free immigration from China in 1980 , and now by increasing emigration from Hong Kong ; and , second , by the colony 's swift move up-market as manufacturers have relocated low-wage factories to southern China , leaving higher-paid jobs in Hong Kong , where their influence has pulled up wages in what would otherwise be poorly paid jobs . |
| 9 | Channel 5 Everyone wants more choice , and Channel 5 has been driven by technological developments . |
| 10 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 11 | Then the farmer admitted that there had been many applicants for the job already , but each had been driven out of the stall by the horse . |
| 12 | 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 . |