Example sentences of "have been drive [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reubens Barrichello has been driving competitively since he was six . |
| 2 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 3 | This trend has been driven both by shifts in fertility and in the distribution of occupations . |
| 4 | According to this analysis the existing municipal culture is one which stresses uniform provision , with little choice for the consumer and which has been driven largely by the demands of the producers . |
| 5 | Although it is based on a mudane Chrysler Concorde saloon , the two-seater version looks like it has been driven straight off the set of ‘ American Graffiti ’ . |
| 6 | Growth has been driven forward by a free people using its talents . |
| 7 | ‘ Growth has been driven forward by a free people using its talents . ’ |
| 8 | Enterprise has been driven away by high business rates and high domestic rates . |
| 9 | He has met his brothers at the fair which accompanies the hiring but otherwise there has been no joy ; certainly nothing to bring to his wife , Emily , who has been driven up to the town and found refuge in the house of a local schoolmaster , Mr Stephens . |
| 10 | The second is a historical observation , that during the thirty years or so since the first observations of single cell response properties in the visual systems of mammals , our understanding of how the visual system works has been driven as much by theoretical developments in the psychology of perception as the other way round . |
| 11 | Three or four pamphlets and books have attacked ‘ the pernicious myth of monarchy ’ , but serious discussion of the usefulness or otherwise of the royal family has been driven out by simpering nonsense from a pack of tabloid reporters who devote their not inconsiderable imaginations to dreaming up new twists to a comic-strip family drama with a cast-list now augmented by half-a-dozen non-royal spouses and their families . |
| 12 | By letting the property market lead , the industrial sector has been ignored and on many occasions existing industry has been driven out or left to die . |
| 13 | The 18-year-old who caused the accident admitted that he 'd been driving recklessly . |
| 14 | Someone who 's not from the area could have been driving through and seen something . ’ |
| 15 | The road was wet and your mother has suggested that your father may have been driving exceptionally fast . ’ |
| 16 | Otherwise I 'd have been driving tonight |
| 17 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 18 | It may have been driven around a bit before it entered the water . |
| 19 | At any rate from 1571 it might well have been very disadvantageous for anyone in the district to openly profess allegiance to the Popish ways and Roman Catholic miners well might have been driven underground — and that is not fully intended as a pun . |
| 20 | The old epithet ‘ sea gull ’ just is n't appropriate any more , now that gulls are a familiar sight inland ( without having been driven there by gales ) , and more are around in winter than in summer . |
| 21 | In that year , the Norwegian Olaf and Swegan the Dane vented their fury on the shire , having been driven back from an attempt on London . |
| 22 | The census of 1785 confirms that the Titfords were still on Pig Street , not having been driven out by the noise of falling stone or splintering wood ; not that noise would have been anything unusual for them — they already had Thomas Addams ' blacksmith 's shop down the street , and the ringing sound of metal on metal emanating from there must have mingled nicely with the constant clip-clop of horses ' hooves as Henry Webley went about his business as the Bristol carrier a few doors away . |
| 23 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 24 | They were thought to have been driven away by a third man in a stolen Golf GTi . |
| 25 | The car seemed to have been driven directly at that cordon , where it had exploded . |
| 26 | Soon after hundreds of prisoners began surrendering , many thought to have been driven out by smoke . |
| 27 | He was told this had been to drive off an attack by the dog pack . |
| 28 | Now in fairness it would n't be our responsibility to pay for a new engine if the vehicle had been drive on . |
| 29 | He had been driving tremendously . |
| 30 | In August 1988 a number of police officers joined forces to pursue a person whom it was alleged had been driving recklessly . |