Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [been] drive " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the other cars had been driven away . |
| 2 | He moved rapidly down-river to Rouen where a number of merchant vessels had been driven in by the exceptional tide , and requisitioned twenty-eight boats . |
| 3 | These hairs have been driven into the wound but not cut through — you see ? |
| 4 | One of the sideshows had a two-inch thick scaffold board into the top of which five-inch nails had been driven to a depth of about half an inch . |
| 5 | The Dark Elves had been driven from the mainland of Ulthuan . |
| 6 | Over recent years , environmental concerns have been driving genuine environmental improvements across a wide range of processes and products . |
| 7 | the increasing stranglehold of the big brewers has led to high prices , poor choice and pub closures ; and many new small breweries have been driven out of business . |
| 8 | The Islamic Sudanese government 's biggest offensive against the mostly-Christian SPLA in nine years of civil war received a shot in the arm on Saturday , when Omdurman Radio announced that rebels had been driven from Bor , home town of the rebel leader , Col John Garang . |
| 9 | But the Allies had been driven back to the borders of India by the initial Japanese offensive . |
| 10 | Intel Corp 's storming first quarter figures ( see page seven ) have not gone down well everywhere , and Hancock Institutional Equity Services analyst Eli Sayegh reckons that there is not much more to go for in the stock : he yesterday downgraded Intel to sell from hold , saying he thinks the company is near peak operating margins at just over 40% , double the historical norm ; he said the company 's margins have been driven largely by a shift from the 80386 chip to the 80486 chip ‘ and this can not go on for too long ; ’ he reckons that Advanced Micro Devices Inc will immediately take 10% of the 80486 market with its planned clone , and could take as much as 25% over time ; his damper wiped $1.75 off Intel shares at $115.75 . |
| 11 | The elephants have been driven from their normal habitat by the construction of a dam and some have taken to plundering farmers ' maize crops . |
| 12 | This information is sometimes used today in building wooden houses but , on the whole , mechanical connexions of all kinds have been driven out by modern glues which have made the efficient use of wood possible but have introduced problems of their own . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mattresses have been driven out and dumped in fields , sticks of broken furniture poke out of ditches and broken-backed fences contain nothing . |
| 15 | ‘ The changes have been driven by the government 's introduction of market forces into the health service , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I was truthfully able to award eighteen points out of twenty for the spring onion soup , nineteen for the marinated chicken , nineteen for the mango mousse and the coconut pudding , and a full twenty for the fish curry ( Goans ca n't abide a meal without fish ; and expatriates have been driven to sprinkling dried fish on baked beans ) . |
| 17 | The recall part of the experiment started approximately 50 minutes after the first and 10 minutes after the last of the junctions had been driven through ( the exact times varied considerably depending on driving style and traffic conditions ) . |
| 18 | The majority of hippies have been driven out of Goa . |
| 19 | The Persians had been driven from Greece not many years before the temple was begun , and the fight to free Greeks from them was still going on in the east . |
| 20 | Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame . |
| 21 | About 40 per cent of the 300,000 inhabitants have been driven off the land by the shrimp firms mainly in the direction of the overcrowded cities . |
| 22 | The troglodytic Soviets have been driven back into their frozen potholes : the camp doctor steadies his monocle and reaches for his mustiest text-book . |
| 23 | The message merely reported that the French had attacked at dawn and that the Prussian outposts had been driven in south of Charleroi . |
| 24 | Ziegler and his men had been driven westwards by a whole regiment of Red Lancers . |
| 25 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 26 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 27 | When all the nasties had been driven extinct , there was no way in which any of the nice strategies could be distinguished from Tit for Tat or from each other , because they all , being nice , simply played COOPERATE against each other . |
| 28 | At first the Russians had been driven back in disorder , but in the months of July and August they had begun to recover and had driven the Poles back on their tracks until finally the Red Army was at the gates of Warsaw itself . |
| 29 | For us in Italy , war finally came on 10 june 1940 , when Mussolini declared war on France , which was already on its knees , and on Britain , whose soldiers had been driven out of Europe . |
| 30 | As DeJong says , ‘ One single purpose has attained predominance , has acquired the monopoly for which everything is sacrificed : the others have been driven out , either totally or into special roads ’ . |