Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toshiba Corp has been showing off the robotics work it is engaged on at its research centre , where it has a number of projects that are or have grown out of government-sponsored projects : it is developing eyes 2mm to 3mm in diameter for a micromachine for use in inspecting pipes in nuclear power stations , and also a software-controlled self-mobile robot for use in space where not all astronauts can be expected to be robot experts . |
| 2 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 3 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 4 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 5 | The car had been chased up the M1 as far as Newport Pagnall by two Bedfordshire police patrol cars . |
| 6 | A plaque had been hung on the gates : ‘ Fierce Dog — Beware ’ . |
| 7 | The judge has been summing up the case against Harper and the jury will consider the case against him tomorrow . |
| 8 | The disclosure letter is then used by the vendor to describe any specific exceptions to the general statement , for example , two claims for unfair dismissal having been brought in the last six months . |
| 9 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 10 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 11 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 12 | The second purpose of the Lecture has been to bring out the need to consider a complete ‘ package ’ of tax changes . |
| 13 | Perhaps the main achievement of the political right has been to slow down the rate of growth in public spending and to identify some of it as ‘ wasteful ’ . |
| 14 | According to a statement received by the weekly Oiga , Salinas accepted responsibility for the coup attempt and declared that its aim had been to hand over the presidency to Máximo San Román Cáceres , Fujimori 's dismissed First Vice-President named " constitutional president " by the dissolved Congress [ see p. 38846 ] . |
| 15 | The railway station has been re-sited down the line to make room for the town 's bypass . |
| 16 | After all , the state owns many buildings and assets , and much emphasis has been put on the institutional shareholdings of insurance companies and pension funds . |
| 17 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
| 18 | Close inspection reveals that a strip of reverse grain timber has been laid down the centre in order to add strength — another old-fashioned idea and a good one , too . |
| 19 | Once the microcomputer has been switched off the data is only available from one or the disks — it is no longer in the computer 's memory . |
| 20 | Decision taking has been delegated down the management structure : sales and support staff have more responsibility and freedom to respond to customer needs . |
| 21 | A KPMG spokesman said : " The environment has been pushed down the agenda of many private companies by other factors such as the recession and exchange rates . |
| 22 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 23 | The company policy had been to speed up the line and the rate of production . |
| 24 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 25 | The Project 's approach has been to build up the confidence and self-awareness of different groups to a stage where contact and co-operation among them will be facilitated . |
| 26 | Primarily , the fact that nostalgia has been thrown out the window and crushed by the futuristic steamroller from hell . |
| 27 | A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area . |
| 28 | Er where the report has been pointing out the cost , not just in financial terms , but in terms of , of hurt and unhappiness of a home breaking up , a family breaking up . |
| 29 | There they had been born , their wicker bassinette had been bumped down the shallow flight of steps to the pavement by their trim nursemaid , young men had called , but not one of the three tall sisters had emerged from the house as a bride . |
| 30 | His response had been to build up the power of his supporters the Nevilles : Richard earl of Warwick and his brothers John , who was made earl of Northumberland , and George , who became archbishop of York . |